Ackcio Raises S$4 million in Series A Funding, Enabling Investment in Three Key Areas of Growth
The company has also been listed in Forbes Asia’s inaugural ‘100 to Watch’ small companies and startups in the Asia Pacific
16 September 2021; Singapore – Ackcio, a Singapore-headquartered deep-tech startup developing wireless data acquisition technology for industrial monitoring, has raised S$4 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by a Singapore-based venture capital firm, Atlas Ventures, and included Seeds Capital, investment arm of Enterprise Singapore, Wavemaker Partners, Aletra Capital Partners, AccelerAsia Ventures, Seasight Holdings, and angel investors.
Over the last 12 months, Ackcio’s revenue has scaled significantly as the company’s client base expanded into 22 markets across six continents. The company’s technology currently serves a diverse set of industrial monitoring applications in industries such as construction, infrastructure, mining, and rail.
In August, the company has also been included in Forbes Asia’s ‘100 to Watch’, a list that spotlights rising small companies and startups across various industries in the Asia Pacific. The list recognises companies that continue to address problems through innovative solutions despite the pandemic.
Dr Nimantha Baranasuriya, Co-Founder and CEO, Ackcio, shares, “It has been an exciting period of growth for us at Ackcio, and the recent recognition on Forbes Asia is just the icing on the cake. We have our partners and clients to thank for entrusting us during what can only be described as a year of rapid change. The need for industries to digitalise is even more important than before, as companies adapt to new requirements posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including ramping up of worker safety and increasing remote operations. This new round of funding will enable us to expand our offerings and continue supporting our customers to make industrial operations smarter and safer.”
With the new capital, Ackcio will focus on three key areas: continuing its rapid geographical expansion, scaling up research & development efforts, and venturing into more industry verticals.
Geographically, Ackcio’s plans to further strengthen its sales teams across the globe. The company will also focus on significantly expanding the Engineering and Operations teams to support customers in a wide range of industries.
Currently, in Asia, Ackcio is providing its devices to large-scale, major infrastructure development projects in Singapore, Indonesia, India, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Korea. The company will be starting similar, extensive deployments across the region in the next few months.
In the Americas region, Ackcio’s solutions are currently deployed in infrastructure development and mining projects in the USA, Canada, Chile, and Peru. Regional support is presently provided from the company’s sales office in Calgary, Canada, which was set up last year. The company will expand the local team to continue the quality and speed of offerings in both North and Latin America.
In Europe, Ackcio’s solutions are deployed in major infrastructure development and rail projects in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and France. With the booming infrastructure market in the region, Ackcio will invest in advanced resources to expand and closely support its client base.
Apart from this, Ackcio will further invest resources to expand and better support their client and partner networks in the Middle East, Africa, and Oceania regions where its solutions are currently used in mining and infrastructure projects.
Additionally, Ackcio will scale up its research and development efforts, emphasising product innovation that will enable integration with more industrial sensors and software platforms to ensure superior data collection reliability for customers operating in mission-critical industries.
Another strategy for the company will be to enter other asset-heavy industries such as oil & gas, energy, and power infrastructure, where data-driven risk management is at the forefront of operations.
“Most existing solutions for industrial monitoring are manual, costly, and unreliable. This has resulted in a massive and challenging problem: lack of visibility, leading to poor worker safety and even loss of lives. Ackcio is one of the very few companies in the world that addresses the issue by providing a real-time, wireless monitoring solution for sensors in harsh environments. We are proud to have Ackcio join our family of startups and continue their growth journey with us,” says Maxim Shkvaruk, Investment Director at Atlas Ventures.
Founded in 2016 by Dr Nimantha Baranasuriya and Dr Mobashir Mohammad, Ackcio delivers cutting-edge, long-range, mesh-based wireless monitoring solutions to industries including construction, infrastructure, rail, and mining. Built on years of research in wireless networks, Ackcio’s technology helps contractors monitor geotechnical projects remotely in real-time and enables companies to increase operational efficiency, reduce costs, improve worker safety, and comply with local regulatory requirements.
Ackcio’s technology is ideal for monitoring above ground and underground sites in construction, railway, infrastructure, mines, and tunnels. Its suite of products ensures smooth project operations, promising reliability of monitoring, management of operational risks, ensuring productivity and adherence to safety measures in place.
“Monitoring the structural integrity of elements such as buildings, mining sites, and other assets is vital for ensuring quality and safety. For the longest time, contractors have been using cable-based or manual monitoring systems. However, these systems are costly to deploy and are limited in practicality, efficiency, and reliability. Additionally, the pandemic has brought upon another set of challenges in manpower and demand,” says Dr Mobashir Mohammad, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ackcio. “We are seeing more infrastructure development projects around the world requiring automated monitoring, and this trend will only continue to grow as more contractors and asset owners start to reap its benefits. Ackcio is proud to be part of the driving force, and we look forward to continuously enhancing our products and services to meet ever-changing expectations.”
About Ackcio
Ackcio builds reliable wireless data acquisition systems for industrial monitoring applications. The company automates monitoring processes and provides remote, intelligent data to enable increased safety and efficient risk management in mission-critical industries, including construction, infrastructure, mining, and rail. Ackcio’s flagship solution, Ackcio Beam, is an industrial data acquisition platform that uses a patented long-range wireless mesh network to monitor sensors accurately and reliably in both above ground and underground environments. Ackcio is headquartered in Singapore and supports clients across the world. In 2021, the company was included in Forbes Asia’s inaugural ‘100 to Watch’, a list comprising small companies and startups on the rise across the Asia Pacific.
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