Blecon has raised $4.6 million Seed funding, advancing its mission to unlock the full potential of Bluetooth Low Energy for IoT Connectivity.
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, by seasoned IoT experts from ARM, AWS, and Microsoft, Blecon has developed a solution that unlocks Bluetooth’s potential for commercial IoT deployments.
"Bluetooth has seen unprecedented technical and commercial success as a consumer technology for personal connectivity, with adoption in billions of devices,” said Simon Ford, CEO of Blecon.
“Now, businesses are exploiting those economies of scale and unique low-cost, low-power characteristics for cloud-connected devices, and Blecon is providing the technology to allow them to achieve it.”
Blecon leverages Bluetooth's inherent benefits combined with Wi-Fi's deployment model and Cellular's network model.
Blecon-enabled Bluetooth devices can securely and automatically connect to the cloud without the need for traditional Bluetooth pairing. Devices can route data bidirectionally through any available Blecon hotspots, enabling cellular-like roaming. Further, Blecon Apps enable phones and laptops to be hotspots, with Blecon Hubs for dedicated coverage—all without configuration.
The funding, led by MMC Ventures, enables Blecon to strengthen product development further and expand customer engagements.
"At MMC, we take a research-led approach to the companies and technologies that will reshape our economy over the coming decades,” said Bruce Macfarlane, founding partner of MMC Ventures.
“Blecon's infrastructure proposition has the potential to leverage all the investment already made in tried and tested Bluetooth technology and unlock that for new data-driven product companies and applications.”
Lead image: Blecon. Photo: uncredited.
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