Key Highlights of the Portfolio of Next Big Thing
Next Big Thing has a portfolio of 19 companies. Their most notable investments are in metr and Enclave Networks.
Their portfolio spans across Germany and United Kingdom. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Real Estate and Construction Tech听补苍诲 16 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages.
Here is the list of top investments by Next Big Thing
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Blockchain based data platform for IoT applications. It offers a data platform that allows developers to collect, store, and analyze data from connected devices. It also facilitates machine to machine communication using smart contracts. Its features include a low code platform, plug and play installation, and data source attestation.
Key facts about weeve
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Berlin (Germany)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $2.51M
- Investors: , Next Big Thing and
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 07, 2022, $2.51M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of zero trust network access control solutions provider. The product automates network management by reducing costs and improving security. The features include prevention of discovery and targeted attacks, end to end encryption, peer to peer networks, automated deployment, and management of private networks. Networks can be managed without making changes to underlying network infrastructure and leaving firewalls always closed, with infrastructure invisible to the public internet. The clients of the company include AIRBUS, LORCA, Next Big Thing, etc.
Key facts about Enclave Networks
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Newport (United Kingdom)
- Valuation: $2.56M as on Mar 11, 2020
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $1.65M
- Employee Count: 5 as on Sep 30, 2021
- Investors: Startupbootcamp, Next Big Thing and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jan 27, 2022, $1M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. metr
Provider of multi-functional gateways for IoT. The company has developed a multi-functional gateway that can integrate with existing submetering systems and read common submetering network nodes via wired/wireless networking devices. The gateway works in integration with companion software that allows for readouts at any desired point in time, ad-hoc, or automatically.
Key facts about metr
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Berlin (Germany)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $6.5M
- Employee Count: 23 as on Dec 31, 2021
- Investors: , Next Big Thing and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Apr 03, 2023, $6.5M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
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Sensry manufactures customized sensor modules for industrial IoT applications. It provides a hardware platform allowing for numerous customizable sensor configurations, radio communications interfaces, and energy management options with an integrated IoT microcontroller.
Key facts about Sensry
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Dresden (Germany)
- Stage: Funding Raised
- Investors: Next Big Thing and Fraunhofer Venture
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Provider of cloud and IoT-based concrete monitoring solutions. It offers sensors that can monitor the temperature development and curing process of concrete and make predictions about its compressive strength and further processing. It also helps in quality management, planning, and more. The solutions cater to construction contractors, manufacturers, facility managers, and more.
Key facts about ConcR
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Berlin (Germany)
- Stage: Funding Raised
- Employee Count: 30 as on Dec 31, 2020
- Investors: Next Big Thing and StartAD
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
