{"id":24437,"date":"2021-05-21T05:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/esper-raises-30m-series-b-for-its-iot-devops-platform.html"},"modified":"2021-05-21T05:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:44:28","slug":"esper-raises-30m-series-b-for-its-iot-devops-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/esper-raises-30m-series-b-for-its-iot-devops-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"Esper raises $30M Series B for its IoT DevOps platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

There may be billions of IoT devices in use today, but the tooling around building (and updating) the software for them still leaves a lot to be desired. Esper<\/a>, which today announced<\/a> that it has raised a $30 million Series B round, builds the tools to enable developers and engineers to deploy and manage fleets of Android-based edge devices. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Root Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures and Haystack.<\/p>\n

The company argues that there are thousands of device manufacturers who are building these kinds of devices on Android alone, but that scaling and managing these deployments comes with a lot of challenges. The core idea here is that Esper brings to device development the DevOps experience that software developers now expect. The company argues that its tools allow companies to forgo building their own internal DevOps teams and instead use its tooling to scale their Android-based IoT fleets for use cases that range from digital signage and kiosks to custom solutions in healthcare, retail, logistics and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pandemic has transformed industries like connected fitness, digital health, hospitality, and food delivery, further accelerating the adoption of intelligent edge devices. But with each new use case, better software automation is required,\u201d said Esper CEO and co-founder Yadhu Gopalan, who founded the company together with COO Shiv Sundar. \u201cEsper\u2019s mature cloud infrastructure incorporates the functionality cloud developers have come to expect, re-imagined for devices.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> Esper<\/p>\n

Mobile device management (MDM) isn\u2019t exactly a new thing, but the Esper team argues that these tools weren\u2019t created for this kind of use case. \u201cMDMs are the solution now in the market. They are made for devices being brought into an environment,\u201d Gopalan said. \u201cThe DNA of these solutions is rooted in protecting the enterprise and to deploy applications to them in the network. Our customers are sending devices out into the wild. It\u2019s an entirely different use case and model.\u201d<\/p>\n

To address these challenges, Esper offers a range of tools and services that includes a full development stack for developers, cloud-based services for device management and hardware emulators<\/a> to get started with building custom devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cEsper<\/span> helped us launch our Fusion-connected fitness offering on three different types of hardware in less than six months,\u201d said Chris Merli, founder at Inspire Fitness. \u201cTheir full stack connected fitness Android platform helped us test our application on different hardware platforms, configure all our devices over the cloud, and manage our fleet exactly to our specifications. They gave us speed, Android expertise, and trust that our application would provide a delightful experience for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company also offers solutions for running Android on older x86 Windows devices<\/a> to extend the life of this hardware, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spent about a year and a half on building out the infrastructure,\u201d said Gopalan. \u201cDefinitely. That\u2019s the hard part and that\u2019s really creating a reliable, robust mechanism where customers can trust that the bits will flow to the devices. And you can also roll back if you need to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Esper is working with hardware partners to launch devices that come with built-in Esper-support from the get-go.<\/p>\n

Esper says it saw 70x revenue growth in the last year, an 8x growth in paying customers and a 15x growth in devices running Esper. Since we don\u2019t know the baseline, those numbers are meaningless, but the investors clearly believe that Esper is on to something. Current customers include the likes of CloudKitchens, Spire Health, Intelity, Ordermark, Inspire Fitness, RomTech and Uber.<\/span><\/p>\n

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