Home Automation & IoT LUDOVIC LE MOAN | SIGFOX CEO SPEAKER BIO Ludovic Le Moan co-founded SIGFOX in 2009. He also co-founded Anyware Technologies, which enabled the connection, management and monitoring of remote equipment through a Web interface. Ludovic co-founded Goojet, a B2C services company that allowed users to share and exchange messages and content. He served as COO of the company, now repositioned as scoop.it. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of scientific and business positions. Ludovic Le Moan is a serial entrepreneur who also founded and chairs IoT Valley, a Toulouse, France, association that offers mentoring, networking and other support for more than a dozen startups. He received an engineering degree from ENSIMAG, a leading French school in computer science, applied mathematics and telecommunications. KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters Labège, France SIGFOX is the world’s leading provider of dedicated connectivity for the Internet of Things. Currently available in 17 countries, the company’s network provides simple, economical, energy-efficient two-way Office Locations Paris, Boston, San Francisco, Singapore, transmission of small quantities of data over long distances, thus lowering barriers to wide implementation Dubai of IoT solutions, and greatly extending the battery and service life of connected devices. Founded 2009 The business of Sigfox revolves around 3 key points: 1) Fast network deployment is key, which is why Sigfox decided to find local partners called “SIGFOX No. of Employees 205 Network operators” to deploy and maintain the network in exchange of a revenue share model. Agriculture, energy & utilities, environment, 2) Ecosystem: Sigfox have developed an ecosystem of devices and solution providers in several Active Markets public services, vehicle & fleet management verticals, to help customers accelerate their time to market with ready-made products and solutions. Deployment of its global network in Australia, 3) Sigfox has also developed a service layer, allowing global customers to have a single contract Recent Milestones New Zealand, Germany and Oman without roaming charges between countries. From the customer’s perspective there is only a single global network that provides access to international coverage and a consistent service-level agreement. Selected Clients / Clients & Partners: Securitas Direct, Partners Microsoft, Altice group Total Funding $151m raised Key Investors Telefonica, SK Telecom and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Intel Capital and Air Liquide Website sigfox.com 88
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