Afero
IoT Platform for Smart, Secure Connected Products
Afero was founded in 2014, is headquartered in Los Altos, United States, lists 51–200 employees, and has $73.2M in recorded funding across 2 rounds.
- Headquarters
- Los Altos, California
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2014
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- afero.io
- Total Funding
- $73.2M
- Last Round
- $52.9M Series CDec 2021
- Rounds
- 2
Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.
Indexed holds 2 funding rounds and 6 investors for this company. The full record is or through the API.
About
Afero is a Silicon Valley IoT Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company that provides manufacturers and brands with an end-to-end secure connected device platform, enabling them to bring IoT products to market up to 80% faster. The Afero IoT Platform covers hardware module design, firmware, mobile app, and cloud services, allowing engineers to reuse up to 90% of their work across projects and enabling connected devices to participate in business processes securely at scale. Afero holds over 130 IoT patents and serves enterprise IoT manufacturers across home and industrial markets, differentiating through its security-first architecture and rapid time-to-market acceleration. The company was founded by Joe Britt, who previously co-founded Danger Research (acquired by Microsoft for $500M) and worked at Google on Android.
Summary
Afero is a SaaS company based in Los Altos, United States, founded in 2014. It lists 51–200 employees. It has raised $73.2M in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $52.9M Series C round in Dec 2021. Investors include Crosspoint Capital Partners, The Home Depot and Samsung Catalyst Fund.
Tech & App Stack
3 technologies & apps tracked
Every product and vendor across these categories, with where each signal came from.
Create a free account with 25 free credits every month, no card needed, to unlock the full tech & app stack, funding history, and valuations.
Funding History
Dec 2021
Sign up to see all 2 events
Funding: Series A through Series C. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
Investors
Similar Companies
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artifi...
Databricks provides a unified data and AI platform that helps enterprises build and run applicati...
Stripe provides payments, billing, money-management, fraud-prevention, and identity tools that he...
Aramark delivers food, facilities-management, hospitality, refreshment, and supply-chain services...
Appears in
Your company? Embed this profile
Add the live badge to your site — it stays current as your funding data updates.
<a href="https://indexed.vc/companies/afero"><img src="https://indexed.vc/api/badge/company/afero" alt="Afero on Indexed.vc" width="260" height="76" /></a>