Awair designs smart indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring devices and a software platform for residential and commercial spaces, with integrations for smart homes and an Awair Omni Dashboard and smartphone app for real-time data. The company emphasizes easy-to-use hardware plus actionable analytics to help users identify pollution sources and remediate indoor air. Awair was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco with a second office in Seoul. The press release highlights a major strategic investment from Emerson, signaling corporate partnership and commercial channel potential. Awair says its continued growth will enable more users to mitigate indoor air for health and safety in homes, schools, and workplaces. The company also named Dustin DeVan (founder of BuildingConnected) to its board, bringing experience from a startup that raised $52.7M and was later acquired for $275M. Awair builds consumer and enterprise air-quality monitors that measure particulate matter, temperature, humidity and CO2 and feed data into an app that offers tips. Its $199 consumer monitor targets allergy-conscious buyers and design-minded consumers, while its Omni enterprise product also tracks ambient light and noise and streams data to a dashboard. The enterprise dashboard can help automate building infrastructure such as HVAC in response to environmental changes. Awair has been selling consumer IoT devices since 2015 and launched its business product about 18 months ago. The company reports more than 300 enterprise customers, including WeWork, Airbnb, Harvard and The Crown Estate. A primary focus going forward is scaling sales to accelerate enterprise expansion, which has been growing faster than its consumer business.

Total raised

$10M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

May 2019