Smart Industry 2/2018

Smart Business The 10 best IoT Hubs
Hub founded 2017 in Raleigh, North
Carolina, for the express purpose of
providing resources to the startup
community that are not available
in typical co-working and startup
incubator spaces. Its RIoT Lab is a
fully fledged hardware, wireless,
and software prototyping laboratory
with all the tools for full-stack
IoT prototyping. Tom Snyder, RIoT’s
executive director, says the hub focuses
on being the connective tissue
to bring together industry, startups,
government, universities, and
Cansu Deniz Bayrak,
COO Startupbootcamp
IoT
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Getting a hand
Successful IoT hubs
usually provide
coaching and mentoring
services where
young founders can
draw on the experience
of seasoned
entrepreneurs who,
in many cases, were
once a successful
startup themselves.
London Socializing and networking are an important function of a good IoT Hub.
investors in the most collaborative
way possible. “We only are successful
when all these stakeholders are
successful,” he claims.
Startupbootcamp IoT, founded in
2016 in London, operates a worldwide
chain of accelerator programs
designed to support early
stage tech founders and hardware
developers. The programs allow
them to scale their companies
rapidly by providing direct access
to an international network of the
most relevant mentors, partners,
and investors in their industry. This
includes:
• AfriTech in South Africa, which
focuses on high-growth startups
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in blockchain, connected devices,
payment solutions, capital markets,
asset management, and integrated
supply chains.
• Digital Health Berlin, which is now
entering its third cycle, is supported
by major pillars of health care,
Sanofi, Munich Re, Berlin Institute
of Health, and Deutsche Apothekerund
Ärztebank. Its goal is to provide
a solid launchpad for fast-growth
early stage IoT startups.
• Smart City Amsterdam offers coworking
space in Amsterdam’s first
IoT startup hub and offers threemonth
innovation programs in areas
such as smart infrastructures
and urban planning, smart
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