Veniam

Veniam
Private
Industry Connected transportation
Founded 2012
Founder João Barros, Robin Chase, Roy Russell and Susana Sargento
Headquarters Mountain View, California, United States
Key people
 Robin Chase (Chairman of the Board)
Services Vehicle based Mesh Networks
Website veniam.com

Veniam is a technology startup focused on building large WiFi mesh networks using moving vehicles. Veniam turns vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots and builds vehicular networks that expand wireless coverage and collect terabytes of actionable data. In controlled spaces such as ports and container terminals, Veniam’s game-changing solutions ensure that all mobile workers and assets are securely connected, no matter where they are or at what speed they are moving. Its hardware, software and cloud components are delivering managed services to intelligent transportation systems in New York City and Singapore, as well as in the world's largest network of connected vehicles, which includes taxis, waste collection trucks and the entire public bus fleet in Porto, Portugal, offering free Wi-Fi to more than 480,000 active customers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Porto (Portugal), and Singapore, and was founded in 2012.[1] Venbiam announced a $25 million Series B round led by Verizon Ventures with new investors Cisco Investments, Orange Digital Ventures, Liberty Global and Yamaha Motor Ventures joining the round. Existing investors True Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Cane Investments also participated. To date, Veniam has raised $30 million.[2] The company technology is being used in Porto's city buses with about 230,000 users with routers installed on over 600 buses, taxis and garbage trucks.[3] That's the 73% of the bus riders with mobile devices.[4] 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 cellular connectivity.[5]

Veniam is planning to expand its service to cities in the US, like San Francisco, New York City and Austin.[6] The company was founded by João Barros, the CTO is Roy Russell, former Zipcar[7] CTO,[8] other founder and chairman is Robin Chase, who is the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar and Buzzcar and Susana Sargento.

The Company has received awards for its vision of the internet of things. Veniam has been awarded in 2015 by Gartner a "Cool Vendor" in Smart Cities.[9] In 2015 it was also winner of the Building Global Innovators by MIT Portugal[10] and winner of CableLabs innovation.[11] Institutional partners for Veniam include: Universidade do Porto, Universidade de Aveiro, MIT Portugal and UPTEC among others.[12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Startup Veniam Builds "Internet of Moving Things"". Startup50. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  2. ↑ https://veniam.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/VeniamSeriesB.pdf
  3. ↑ "Hundreds of Portuguese Buses and Taxis Are Also Wi-Fi Routers". Technology Review. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Portugal Discovers Its Spirit Of Entrepreneurial Adventure". Forbes. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "A network for the Internet of (moving) Things". GCN. 2015-09-29.
  6. ↑ "Zipcar Founder Wants To Turn Every Car In The World Into A WiFi Hotspot". Business Insider. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Robin Chase on Zipcar and her next big idea". TED Talks. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  8. ↑ "Veniam Wants to Build a Smart City One WiFi Bus at a Time". Xconomy. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Veniam Named 2015 Gartner "Cool Vendor" in Smart Cities" (Press release). Veniam. Retrieved 16 September 2015 – via Market Wired.
  10. ↑ "Veniam is the winner of BGI 3rd Edition!" (Press release). MIT Portugal. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  11. ↑ "Veniam Wows Cable's Engineering Crowd". Multi Channel. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
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  14. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-wins-wi-fi-industrys-best-new-venture-2065279.htm
  15. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-wins-2015-red-herring-top-100-award-2032049.htm
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  17. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-voted-winner-at-cablelabs-innovation-showcase-2044937.htm
  18. ↑ http://marketwired.sys-con.com/node/3356832
  19. ↑ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/veniam-named-to-fiercewireless-fierce-15-top-wireless-company-list-of-2015-2029150.htm
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  22. ↑ https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/661333/
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  26. ↑ http://www.libertyglobal.com/
  27. ↑ http://www.libertyglobal.com/ventures.html
  28. ↑ http://cmuportugal.org/tiercontent.aspx?id=5464
  29. ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=women-innovators&pg=2016
  30. ↑ https://uaonline.ua.pt/Pub/news.asp?tg=144&lg=pt&pg=1
  31. ↑ https://www.it.pt/AboutIT/PartnershipsStartUpsAndSpinOffs
  32. ↑ http://www.mitportugal.org/press-releases/veniam-is-the-winner-of-bgi-3rd-edition.html
  33. ↑ https://uaonline.ua.pt/Pub/news.asp?tg=144&lg=pt&pg=1
  34. ↑ https://uaonline.ua.pt/Pub/news.asp?tg=144&lg=pt&pg=1
  35. ↑ http://uptec.up.pt/empresa/veniam

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