Money talks, and in the smart building industry money often talks about those firms making simple technology that is affordable and easy to implement. Technologies that have the potential to bring the value of smart building technology to the vast majority of building stock have attracted significant interest from major players in recent months and years. “Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Service, which enables building owners to significantly reduce their energy costs and environmental footprint with no upfront cost, continues to attract high levels of growth equity,” states our July article on Q2 funding – which highlights financing of Budderfly and Carbon Lighthouse, worth a combined $87 millon. “Workplace management platforms for commercial offices gained funding this quarter through IPOs, from corporate investors and venture capital firms,” the article continued quoting multiple companies from our H1-2019 research on M&A and Investments in Smart Buildings. In the smart building environmental-control space alone, it wasn’t that long since Nest was acquired by […]