Acquisitions
Increased M&A & Investment Activity in FM Software Sector in 2018
January 28th, 20192018 was a Record Year for Investment in Smart Building Innovation
January 17th, 2019
Building the Security Business Through Merger & Acquisition; Has it Delivered?
Memoori have been collecting and analysing global M&A data in the Physical Security Industry covering the last 18 years. This article looks at the trends that have taken place over this period driven by the need for consolidation built around innovative products that deliver solutions. We review the impact M&A has had on developing winners […]
How Valuable is the Channel in Smart Building Technology?
In the midst of increased M&A activity in the smart building space, it is natural to consider the implications to building owners, operators and other competing solution providers. Do these acquisitions mean that smart building technology is maturing and has “arrived”. Or, were these acquisitions made opportunistically? It’s hard to know, and the answers may […]
BuildingIQ Improves New Construction & Retrofit Capabilities with Buildingsense Acquisition
Mergers and acquisitions have become commonplace in the smart building sector. The fact that so many individual systems come together to create the complex entity broadly defined as “the smart building” lends itself to firms bringing together their unique skills in order to offer a more complete service to their customers. In the real estate […]
Digital Locking Startups Gain Partners & Investment from Leading Access Control Players
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Independent Senior Research Associate at Memoori Over the past three years, acquisitions, investments and partnerships in keyless electronic locking startups have reinforced the growth of the digital locking segment in electronic access control solutions for both residential and non-residential buildings. Over the same timeframe, the major security solution […]
Siemens Continues its Californian IoT Shopping Spree with Acquisition of Comfy
Siemens Building Technologies Division has completed another significant deal in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, this time with the acquisition of Comfy (previously known as Building Robotics). The Oakland, CA, based start-up is known for their building controls mobile app. The deal is the third smart building startup acquired during the German engineering conglomerate’s […]
The 5 Most Important Factors that will Shape Future Strategies in the Security Business
In our annual report “The Physical Security Business 2017 to 2022” we have analysed the 3 main businesses that make up the physical security market; sized and compared their structures and given an overview of the competitive landscape. Built on this we have identified and analysed the 5 most important factors that will determine future […]
Amazon Underlines Ambitions to Dominate the Smart Home with Latest Acquisition
In 2013, during episode nine in the fifth season of entrepreneurial reality TV series Shark Tank (a show like Dragon’s Den for our UK readers), James Siminoff pitched his smart doorbell invention ‘DoorBot’ to the show’s panel of experienced investors. During the pitch, Siminoff sought a $700,000 investment for a 10% stake in DoorBot, valuing […]
Strategies to Meet the Changing Physical Security Landscape
Despite the fact that the growth of the world’s physical security business has slowed down in the last 2 years it is still in good shape and now prepared for stronger growth over the next 5 years. During this time the geographical distribution of the business will continue to shift towards fast growing Asia and […]
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