Butlr is a private-by-design people sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount and activity, and generate accurate, real-time and historical spatial insights.
Location: United States, California, Burlingame
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $27.9M
Founded date: 2018
Founders name: Jiani Zeng
Founders Related Locations: United Kingdom, England, London; United States, California, San Francisco; United States, Massachusetts, Boston; United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | 1Flourish ... | 1flourish.... |
| - | SAV (Scale... | sav.vc |
| - | ParticleX | particlex.... |
| - | E14 Fund | e14.vc |
| - | Tectonic V... | tectonicve... |
| - | Constellar... | constellar... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 27.07.2022 | Series A | $20M | E14 Fund M... |
| 15.07.2021 | Seed | $7.9M | - |
Persons 7
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Raghav | Gupta | - | linkedin.c... | - | r**s@hyper... | - |
| - | Stuart | Ferrell | - | linkedin.c... | - | s****t@but... | - |
| - | Ioanna | Sotiriou | - | linkedin.c... | - | I****a@but... | - |
| - | Yoel | Roznitsky | Head Of Op... | linkedin.c... | - | y**l@butlr... | - |
| - | Andy | Stubbs | Head Of En... | linkedin.c... | - | a**y@butlr... | - |
| - | Ross | Desmond | Head Of So... | linkedin.c... | - | r**s@butlr... | - |
| - | Jiani | Zeng | Co-founder... | linkedin.c... | - | z**g@butlr... | - |
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| 22.03.2023 | ‘AIoT’ startup Butlr raises funding from Qualcomm, launches news wireless sensor Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community tha... | Butlr Technologies Inc., which styles itself an “artificial intelligence of things” startup, today announced that it has raised additional funding from Qualcomm Ventures LLC and launched the next generation of its Heatic wireless sensors. F... |
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| 27.07.2022 | Butlr Closes $20M Series A Funding | Butlr Technologies, Inc., a Burlingame, Calif. – based anonymous people sensing platform, raised 20M in Series A funding. The round was led by Tiger Global, Ray Stata, and Primetime Partners, with participation from existing investors E14, ... |
| 26.07.2022 | Butlr lands new cash to put people-detecting sensors in the office | Butlr, an MIT Media Lab spinout developing sensors that use body heat to estimate office occupancy, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round with participation from Carrier Global Corporation (a strategic investor), Ti... |
| 26.07.2022 | ‘AIoT’ startup Butlr raises $20M, signs agreement with Carrier Global Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes ... | “Artificial intelligence of things” startup Butlr Technologies Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $20 million in new funding to support customer growth and has signed an agreement with Carrier Global Corp. for the use of its technology... |
| 16.07.2021 | Butlr Technologies Raises $7.9M in Seed Funding | Butlr Technologies, a Burlingam CA-based anonymous, wireless and real-time people sensing platform, raised $7.9M in seed funding. The round was led by Hyperplane with participation from Founder Collective, Union Labs, 500 Startups, SOSV, E1... |
| 15.07.2021 | Butlr Technologies, developing anonymous people sensors, inks $7.9M seed round | A new $7.9 million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place. ... |