Top Internet of Things Startups in 2027

InfluxData provides InfluxEnterprise and InfluxCloud as Modern Time Series Platforms that have been designed from the ground up to handle metrics and events (time-series data). Customers use our products as their: DevOps Monitoring Platform (Monitoring Infrastructure, SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, Containers, Systems and Applications); IoT Data Platform; and Real-Time Analytics Platform.

Tulip, the Frontline Operations Platform, is empowering the world’s leading manufacturers to improve the productivity of their teams, the quality of their output, and the efficiency of their operations. With Tulip’s no-code platform, manufacturers can empower those closest to operations to digitally transform their facilities and gain real-time visibility into the people, machines and processes involved in production--all in a matter of days. Manufacturers of all sizes, across industries including consumer electronics, aerospace and defense, contract manufacturing, automotive, apparel, medical devices and more, have implemented Tulip’s intuitive platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in manufacturing: error-proofing processes with guided workflows, integrating industrial IoT (IIoT) technologies with legacy factory machines, and capturing and analyzing real-time production floor data. A spinoff out of MIT, the company is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in the UK and Germany. It has been recognized as a MES Challenger on the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Frost and Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the year and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. You can learn more and get started for free at Tulip.co.

KeepTruckin is a San Francisco-based company that serves more than one million drivers and over 100,000 businesses that power the physical economy by equipping them with the technology needed to improve the safety and efficiency of their operations. Shoaib Makani and his co-founders Ryan Johns and Obaid Khan founded the company in 2013 to serve the trucking industry, a workforce that is essential to the economy but underserved by technology. Today, KeepTruckin’s 400,000-strong network of connected vehicles, ranging from small trucking companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, is one of the largest in North America. The products that KeepTruckin builds deliver integrated value for a diverse range of industries, from construction and oil and gas to distribution and moving and storage. At every turn, KeepTruckin provides cutting-edge hardware and software that leverages the latest advancements in AI and computer vision to solve a broad range of problems for businesses with vehicles — spanning video-based driver safety, Electronic Logging Device (ELD) compliance, GPS tracking, dispatch, and fuel and maintenance. KeepTruckin’s series E round valued the company at $2.3 billion, and it currently employs more than 2,400 people worldwide.

C3.ai is a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. The proven C3 AI Suite provides the comprehensive services to build enterprise scale AI applications 40x to 100x faster than alternative approaches. The core of the C3 AI Suite is a revolutionary, extensible, model-driven abstraction layer that dramatically enhances data scientist and application developer productivity. The C3 AI Suite supports any value chain in any industry with pre-built, configurable, high-value AI applications for predictive maintenance, fraud detection, sensor network health, supply network optimization, energy management, anti-money laundering, and customer engagement. c3.ai

At Verkada, we’re on a mission to modernize the world of physical security. Today, we build enterprise security cameras that combine cutting-edge camera technology with intelligent, web-based software—all in a secure, user-friendly solution. In the future, we’ll deepen our use of machine learning to enable entirely new ways of enhancing physical security — many of which have yet to be imagined. Unlike existing video security systems, Verkada’s technology eliminates outdated equipment such as network video recorders (NVRs) and offers the protection of full encryption with no special configuration required. Our systems are easy to install, update and expand. Verkada was founded in 2016 by computer scientists and information security experts from Stanford University and MIT. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

The future, as we see it, has millions of more devices connected to the internet — from self-driving cars, to delivery drones, to electric scooters, to smart farming sensors. Hologram is here to connect anything to the internet — via our global cellular platform and network available in over 196 countries and territories.

About Eight Sleep Eight Sleep is building an end-to-end predictive health platform, starting with the one place humans spend a third of their lives - the bed. Founded in 2014, we began by reimagining sleep as a trainable input to health and performance. Our flagship product, the Pod, turns the bed into an always-on lab, combining advanced temperature regulation, biometric sensing, and AI to optimize recovery, improve performance, and surface early signals for preventative action. Today, Eight Sleep has analyzed 1B+ hours of sleep data, serves customers across 30+ countries, and has recently raised an additional $100M to expand beyond sleep optimization into broader health prediction and intervention. Backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Valor Equity Partners, and HSG, we’re building the foundation for how people understand and improve their health every day - passively, continuously, and proactively. Learn more at eightsleep.com

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Through the development of a first of its kind open platform, Platform Science provides the hardware and software that allows clients to fully capture, analyze and apply a wealth of data, dramatically increasing performance, compliance, time management and savings.

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