Verdigris has raised $10M for smarter buildings: I am so excited by this news, because roughly eight years ago I met one of the founders of Verdigris in an Austin coffee shop to talk about how to use AI and connected HVAC to make buildings greener. … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for June 2, 2023
The FTC fines Amazon over Ring and Alexa privacy violations: The Federal Trade Commission is gunning for Amazon with a $5.8 million fine for its Ring security business and a $25 million fine for Alexa. The FTC had filed a lawsuit against Ring over … [Read more...]
Podcast: Why we think Wemo is a no-go for us
We start this week's show with a conversation about Latch, the company that is acquiring Jamie Siminoff's stealth startup. Siminoff, who also founded Ring, left Amazon (which had acquired Ring in 2018) this week ahead of the planned deal. He will … [Read more...]
The Latch deal for Jamie Siminoff’s startup is basically a $20M acqui-hire
The recently announced deal by publicly traded Latch to acquire Jamie Siminoff's startup Honest Day's Work essentially gives Latch investors a well-regarded executive to manage the flagging public company, and Siminoff a public company to run where … [Read more...]
Podcast: First impressions of the new Aqara mmWave sensor
This week we start the show with my first impressions of the Aqara FP2 mmWave sensor. This $83 sensor can detect multiple people in a room, light settings, and falls. It's also one of the first presence sensors that uses radar to detect people as … [Read more...]
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