Wia, a cloud platform for IoT device developers, scores €750K seed funding
Wia, an Irish startup that offers a cloud platform to enable developers to turn various sensor-based hardware into fully fledged Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has raised €750,000 in seed funding. The rather modest round is led by Suir Valley Ventures, with participation from Enterprise Ireland.
Launched in 2015, the Wia platform attempts to take care of a lot of the heavy lifting required to put the cloud-based infrastructure in place (and keep it running) in order to make dumb devices smart and put the ‘Internet’ into IoT. Specifically, it claims to let developers convert any type of sensing device into a “secure, smart and useful application” in a matter of minutes, saving a ton of time and many lines of code.
“You have a piece of hardware that you’ve built, it could be a thermostat, a bike tracker or even a self-driving car. What do all these devices have in common? You need to capture data from sensors to turn these devices into something smart and useful,” explains Wia founder and CEO Conall Laverty.
“To do this, you need a platform,” he continues. “The old way of doing things is to cram a bunch of developers into a room and get them to write 100,000’s of lines of code hoping that in a few months time they have something that works. You just want to send a bit of data from there to here, keep the lights on, and make sure there’s no unwanted visitors at home”. Read more…