Veniam

Veniam
Private
Industry Connected transportation
Founded 2012 (2012)
Founder João Barros, Robin Chase, Roy Russell and Susana Sargento
Headquarters Mountain View, California, United States
Key people
João Barros, Founder & CEO
Rui Costa, CTO
Jane Hoffer, CBO
Services Vehicle based Mesh Networks & Connected Vehicles
Website veniam.com

Veniam is a technology startup with an Intelligent Networking Platform that moves massive amounts of data between connected vehicles and the cloud. Veniam's unique mobile-data platform, built for a future based on autonomous vehicles (AVs) and an emerging “Internet of Moving Things,” brings three essential enablers to this vision of truly smart cities: multinetwork mesh networking, local data management and low-latency. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2012.[1] The Company received 4.9 million dollars in 2014 in a funding round from True Ventures,[2] USV and Cane Investments. Veniam's technology is being used in Porto's city buses with about 230,000 users with onboard units (OBUs) installed on over 600 buses, taxis and garbage trucks.[3] They aim to equip many moving things with wireless hotspots creating a mesh that could be used to build sensors to turn the city smarter.Each vehicle is equipped with a NetRider, a multi network unit with Wi-Fi (802.11p), DSRC, GPS and 4G/LTE connectivity.[4]

Company

Veniam was founded by João Barros, its CEO, Roy Russell, former Zipcar[5] CTO,[6] Susana Sargento, a professor at the University of Aveiro, and Robin Chase, former CEO of Zipcar and Buzzcar.


Products

Veniam Platform

Awards

  • 2018 named Best Connected/Product/Service at TU Automotive
  • 2017 ScaleUp Portugal Award Tech Winner
  • 2017 Telecom Council Spiffy Winner - San Andreas Award for the Most Disruptive Technology
  • 2017 CNBC 50 Disruptors - list of companies whose "innovations are changing the world.”[7]
  • Winner of TU Automotive Best Auto Mobility Product/Service 2016[8]
  • 2016 Best Auto Mobility Product/Service Winner by TU Automotive
  • 2016 CNBC 50 Disruptors - list of companies whose "innovations are revolutionizing the business landscape.”[9]
  • Winner of the “Best New Venture” at the WBA 2015 Wi-Fi Industry Awards[10]
  • Winner of the 2015 Red Herring Top 100 Award[11]
  • Winner of the NOS Innovation Award
  • Winner of the Portuguese Venture Competition “Building Global Innovators” (ISCTE–IUL; MIT Portugal)[12]
  • Most Likely to Succeed Idea within the Cable Industry at CableLabs’ Innovation Showcase[13]
  • Named 2015 Gartner “Cool Vendor” in Smart Cities[14]
  • Named FierceWireless “Fierce 15” Top Wireless Company List of 2015[15]

Investors

Institutional Partners

References

  1. ↑ "Startup Veniam Builds "Internet of Moving Things"". Startup50. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Veniam Picks Up $4.9M To Turn Buses Into Wi-Fi Hotspots". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Hundreds of Portuguese Buses and Taxis Are Also Wi-Fi Routers". Technology Review. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "A network for the Internet of (moving) Things". GCN. 2015-09-29.
  5. ↑ "Robin Chase on Zipcar and her next big idea". TED Talks. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Veniam Wants to Build a Smart City One WiFi Bus at a Time". Xconomy. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  7. ↑ staff, CNBC.com (16 May 2017). "2017 Disruptor 50: No. 34 Veniam".
  8. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniams-vehicle-networking-solutions-win-cnbc-disruptor-50-best-auto-mobility-product-2134853.htm
  9. ↑ staff, CNBC.com (7 June 2016). "2016 Disruptor 50: No. 28 Veniam".
  10. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-wins-wi-fi-industrys-best-new-venture-2065279.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-wins-2015-red-herring-top-100-award-2032049.htm
  12. 1 2 Gallagher, Don. "MIT Portugal - MIT Portugal".
  13. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-voted-winner-at-cablelabs-innovation-showcase-2044937.htm
  14. ↑ "Veniam Named 2015 Gartner "Cool Vendor" in Smart Cities - Marketwired".
  15. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-named-to-fiercewireless-fierce-15-top-wireless-company-list-of-2015-2029150.htm
  16. ↑ "About Us - Our Operations - Other Operations - Liberty Global Ventures".
  17. 1 2 3 4 "Verizon Ventures leads $22 mln Series B funding in Veniam". 12 February 2016.
  18. ↑ "Liberty Global - largest international cable company".
  19. ↑ "Welcoming Veniam". 2 December 2014.
  20. ↑ "Introducing Veniam - Union Square Ventures".
  21. ↑ "Veniam'Works Makes Buses Wi-Fi Hotspots".
  22. ↑ "European Union Women Innovators prize 2016 - Innovation Union - European Commission".
  23. ↑ Engenharia, Agri-Ciência, Consultores de. "Start-ups and Spin-offs".
  24. 1 2 "Jornal Online - Universidade de Aveiro".
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