Upskill develops enterprise augmented reality software and a platform called Skylight that enhances the capabilities of hands-on workers in industrial settings. The company’s Skylight platform is used across the organization—from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite—and is deployed by customers such as GE and The Boeing Company. Led by co‑founder and CEO Brian Ballard, Upskill focuses on improving measurable business operations through AR on enterprise devices. The company announced a strategic alliance with Accenture to expand the capabilities of Accenture Extended Reality and Accenture Industry X.0 groups. Upskill intends to use recent funding for growth and product development. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC. Upskill (formerly APX Labs) builds the Skylight industrial augmented reality (AR) application platform for enterprise wearables. The platform connects hands-on workers to the information they need, improving operations across factories, warehouses and jobsites. Skylight is used by customers including GE, Boeing, Rio Tinto, DHL, Merck and Shell. Led by co-founder and CEO Brian Ballard with Dr. Magid Abraham as Executive Chairman, the company focuses on enterprise deployments of AR wearables. Upskill intends to use the new funding to expand its offerings, accelerate production and grow its engineering and customer solutions teams. The company is based in Herndon, Virginia. APX Labs makes Skylight, a vendor-agnostic smart-glasses platform that works across hardware including Google Glass and Sony Smart EyeGlasses. The Skylight software, used with smart-glass hardware, delivers hands-free instructions to employees in industrial scenarios where tablets or laptops are impractical. The company says it has dozens of customers, including six of the Fortune 10, and counts GE as a customer with a large deployment planned within the next 12 months. APX lists partnerships with Microsoft, Accenture, SAP and Deloitte. The Herndon, Virginia company plans to use the $13M investment to continue developing the product, scale to a wider market, and support a larger number of smart-glass devices as they become available. CEO Brian Ballard highlighted the strategic value of investments from GE Ventures and Salesforce Ventures as validation of the company’s direction. APX Labs is a Herndon, Virginia-based developer of Skylight, an enterprise software platform for building applications on smart glasses. The platform works with multiple device types including Google Glass and Epson Moverio and integrates with enterprise systems from SAP and Microsoft. APX recently launched Skylight 2.0, which adds telestration, beacons and a Radar media/location widget. Its solution is deployed across Fortune 500 customers in energy, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, media and oil and gas sectors. Led by CEO Brian Ballard, the company plans to use new funding to sign customers and continue product development. Financially, APX closed a $10M Series A and has now raised $15.8M in total.

Total raised

$40M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Mar 2018