Ubicquia Raises $30 Million for Smart Cities: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: Street lights that can be retrofitted with new tech. Ubicquia, which provides smart cities tech, closed a $30 million Series C funding round with participation from Fuel Venture Capital and other investors. Ubicquia
Skift Take
Innovations that cities are incubating today will serve the travel industry tomorrow, as Skift noted as a megatrend earlier this year. The story of Ubicquia, a smart city startup, makes the point. Potential applications of its tech include resort areas and theme parks.
Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at [email protected] if you have funding news.
This week, travel startups announced more than $30 million in funding.
>>Ubicquia, which provides tech for cities, closed a $30 million Series C funding round with participation from Fuel Venture Capital and other investors.
Ubicquia's devices plug into the photocell sockets of existing streetlights and transformer polls. The gizmos add advanced light control, public Wi-Fi, private LTE internet signal support, and video cameras powered by artificial intelligence to help authorities manage traffic and track public safety. The technology is compatible with 300 millio
