Veniam was a technology startup focused on building large

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using moving vehicles like city buses or taxis. The company is headquartered in

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and was founded in 2012. The Company received 4.9 million dollars in 2014 in a funding round from True Ventures, USV and Cane Investments. Veniam's technology is being used in

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's city buses with about 230,000 users with onboard units (OBUs) installed on over 600 buses, taxis and garbage trucks. 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 (

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, GPS and 4G/LTE connectivity.

Company

Veniam was founded by João Barros, its CEO, Roy Russell, former

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CTO, Susana Sargento, a professor at the

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, and Robin Chase, former CEO of

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.” *Winner of TU Automotive Best Auto Mobility Product/Service 2016 *2016 Best Auto Mobility Product/Service Winner by TU Automotive *2016 CNBC 50 Disruptors - list of companies whose "innovations are revolutionizing the business landscape.” *Winner of the “Best New Venture” at the WBA 2015 Wi-Fi Industry Awards *Winner of WBA Scale Up Award 2015 for the outstanding innovation and solutions brought to market *Winner of the 2015 Red Herring Top 100 Award *Winner of the NOS Innovation Award 2015 *Winner of the Portuguese Venture Competition “Building Global Innovators” (ISCTE–IUL; MIT Portugal) *Most Likely to Succeed Idea within the Cable Industry at CableLabs’ Innovation Showcase *Named 2015 Gartner “Cool Vendor” in Smart Cities *Named FierceWireless “Fierce 15” Top Wireless Company List of 2015

Investors

* Cane Investments * Cisco Investments * Liberty Global * Orange Digital Ventures *

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* USV * Verizon Ventures * Yamaha Motor Ventures And Laboratory Silicon Valley

Institutional Partners

* Carnegie Mellon Portugal *

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* Instituto de Telecomunicações *

ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa is a Portuguese public tertiary education institution. It is located in the city centre of Lisbon, in Cidade Universitária, adjoining the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) and Institute of Geogr ...

* MIT Portugal * O NOVO NORTE * Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional *

* University of Porto * University Technology Entreprise Network Portugal

References

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