Investments
2018 was a Record Year for Investment in Smart Building Innovation
January 17th, 2019Your Window to Wellness – Softbank Invests $1.1 Billion in Dynamic Window Firm View
November 7th, 2018
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 […]
Billionaires Betting Big on Energy Storage Technologies
50 years ago, a Stanford Research Institute report titled ‘Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters’ was the first to officially suggest that “rising CO2 levels could bring about climatic changes like temperature increases, melting of ice caps and sea level rise.” After the most heavily polluting half century in human history we now […]
Smart Building Startups Are Becoming More Attractive to Strategic Investors
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Independent Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In 2017, funding for startups focused on the commercial and industrial smart buildings market reached its second highest annual level since 2008 as investments amounted to $1.11 billion, according to our recent analysis, updating Memoori’s 2017 Startups Report. Although this is a […]
$4.4 Bn Softbank Investment Will Change The Way WeWork
Modern office concept WeWork announced a $4.4 billion investment last week to expand their innovative co-working and co-living business to the Asia-Pacific and across the world. The $4.4 billion investment from the SoftBank Group and the SoftBank Vision Fund will not only bring about more WeWork co-working spaces in new markets, it is also the […]
Direct New Investment in the Physical Security Industry Fell in 2016
Our recent Report on the Physical Security industry identified 9 transactions by venture capital and notable security companies investing some $96.3m into physical security companies. Venture Capitalists have invested an average of $275m per annum in the physical security industry over the previous 4 years, so it’s rather disappointing to see it fall to $96 […]
Strategic Acquisitions Dominate Security M&A; Whilst Major Conglomerates & External Buyers lose their Appetite
In the last 6 years M&A activity within the security industry, has for the most part been driven by the major conglomerates through strategic buys to acquire new technology, expand their product range, or improve focus on particular vertical markets and regions in the world where demand is growing. However within the last 4 years […]
M&A and Investment Performance in the LED Lighting Industry
Over the course of the last 5 years we’ve been closely monitoring developments in the LED market and have tracked a total of 238 significant deals. Although we cannot claim that this list of deals is exhaustive, it certainly paints a picture of the mood in the market and the strategies of its respective major […]
The Intruder Alarm Business in 2013
Research from Memoori shows that total value of world production of security products was $20.57 billion (at factory gate prices). Of this, intruder alarms at $5.77 billion took a 27.5% share.
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