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Daikin Collaborates with Startups in the Smart Buildings Space
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Daikin Industries Ltd, is the global No. 1 air conditioning manufacturer, with over 88,000 employees, 100 production sites, and more than $27 billion (3.1 trillion Japanese yen) in sales across the 170 countries in which it operates. Through joint development with partner companies that include customers and startups, the company is […]
Mapping the Strategic Direction of Siemens in Smart Buildings – Part 2
This Research Note examines the emerging strategic priorities of Siemens in the smart commercial buildings space. We have mapped acquisitions, mergers, strategic partnerships and investment activity to ascertain the growth ambitions of the Siemens Smart Infrastructure division; categorizing the various business relationships by technology and investment type over a 3-year period. This article, part 2 of a 2-part analysis, is […]
Siemens Buildings Business Q4 2021 Examined
In this research note, we examine the Buildings business of Siemens, which operates within the Smart Infrastructure (SI) division, based on their Q4 press conference, Capital Markets Day presentations and building technology-related activities throughout 2021. The SI portfolio addresses the complete value chain across buildings and electrification, increasingly growing together at the grid edge. Their smart building […]
BMS Vendors Address the Small to Mid-Sized Commercial Buildings Market
The leading building automation players are investing and partnering with startup companies who have developed lower cost solutions for the light commercial buildings market. The latest example is the Siemens acquisition of French startup, Wattsense, which enables the leading player to address this market. The acquisition by the former Building Technologies business, part of Siemens Smart […]
Corporate VC Accounted for 38% of Q1 Investments in the Smart Buildings Space
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Corporate venture capital continues to play an important role in funding innovations in the smart building space. The major incumbents providing building technologies and real estate services in commercial and industrial facilities are facing competitive pressure from a wave of smart building startups, […]
Value of Smart Building Deals Reached $2Bn in Q3 2019
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. This article provides a snapshot of some of the notable investments in the smart buildings space in the third quarter of 2019. As part of our ongoing deal tracking service, Memoori recorded 61 funding rounds amounting to around $2 billion in disclosed deal […]
A Simple Way to Make Buildings Smart is a Simple Way to Attract Smart Investors
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 […]
Digital Connected Building Solutions from Commercial HVAC Vendors Gather Pace
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Independent Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Commercial HVAC equipment manufacturers in the North American market are competing head-on with building controls vendors by offering factory installed embedded controllers in their HVAC equipment. These solutions offer customers an alternative to the traditional building management approach supported by external controls […]