{"id":101190,"date":"2020-01-21T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/startup-skylo-seeks-to-connect-millions-of-devices-vehicles-vessels-via-satellite"},"modified":"2020-01-21T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:04:08","slug":"startup-skylo-seeks-to-connect-millions-of-devices-vehicles-vessels-via-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/startup-skylo-seeks-to-connect-millions-of-devices-vehicles-vessels-via-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Startup Skylo seeks to connect millions of devices, vehicles, vessels via satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startup-skylo-seeks-to-connect-millions-of-devices-vehicles-vessels-via-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Startup Skylo emerged from stealth mode Jan. 21 with $116 million in the bank and plans to connect devices by transferring data over existing geostationary communications satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key challenge we wanted to address was how data was going to be moved from machines and sensors outside of the areas where traditionally connectivity has existed,\u201d Parthsarathi \u201cParth\u201d Trivedi, Skylo co-founder and CEO, told <em>SpaceNews. <\/em>\u201cIf we could lower the cost of providing ubiquitous, affordable and reliable connectivity, there would be a phenomenal number of applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skylo raised $13 million in a Series A investment round led by DCM Ventures and Innovation Endeavors with participation by Boeing HorizonX and Moore Strategic Ventures. In its latest Series B round led by SoftBank with participation by all the firm\u2019s previous investors, Skylo raised $103 million, according to the firm\u2019s Jan. 21 news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Startup Skylo emerged from stealth mode Jan. 21 with $116 million in the bank and plans to connect devices by transferring data over existing geostationary communications satellites. \u201cThe key challenge we wanted to address was how data was going to be moved from machines and sensors outside of the areas where traditionally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}