BROWSING: Ludovic Le Moan
And then there were four (and then two) – bidders bail as UnaBiz, OTEIS await Sigfox fate
An update on the Sigfox takeover, taken from largely from a report in La Tribune Toulouse, the local business paper in Toulouse, France, where the seven candidates offering to rescue the ailing French IoT firm had their bids reviewed at the city's commercial court...
Sigfox placed into receivership in France – with six months to find buyers, save jobs
Sigfox has been placed into receivership in France, with a six month window to find a new owner. The company’s chief executive, Jeremy Prince, instructed the Toulouse Commercial Court to open the procedure yesterday (January 26), to place Sigfox, as well as local Sigfox...
UnaBiz raises $25m in Series B round to set itself as ‘unified LPWAN’ solution provider
Singapore-based IoT service provider UnaBiz has raised a further $25 million as part of a Series B funding round led by Tokyo-based investment company SPARX Group. The round was oversubscribed, the company said, with participation also from Taiwanese venture and private equity firm CDIB...
‘Open to any discussion’ – Sigfox on hooking up with LoRaWAN, scaling up with Google
Let’s cut to the chase: will Sigfox and LoRaWAN, painted as arch rivals at the low-power end of the IoT space, ever be combined into a single IoT solution? Will the owners of these twin technologies, which have propped up large parts of the...
The long wait for massive IoT is almost over, says Sigfox’s top brass
Sigfox was just ahead of its time; the high-cost control-freakery of its business model has been a necessary consequence of its seismic undertaking, a decade ago, to create a market from scratch. But that work is finished, almost; demand among global enterprises for IoT...
‘If you could deploy LoRa on a Sigfox network…’ – the case for low-power IoT crossover
Note this story is continued from a previous post, asking if it is 'time for Sigfox and LoRaWAN to call a truce – and team up'. The previous entry can be found here.
Sometimes, the argument is so passionate and the logic is so...
Sigfox chief Le Moan exits, replaced by USA boss, as IoT firm kickstarts new ‘evolution’
Sigfox co-founder and chief executive Ludovic Le Moan has stepped down from the French IoT firm with immediate effect. He has been replaced by Jeremy Prince, who has served as president of the company’s US operations since March 2019.
Le Moan founded Sigfox in 2009...