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What Media is telling about thethings.iO

It started with our appearance in Forbes and VenturesBeat, and now there is even more! After closing our first-round of investment, many important blogs and Newspapers have spread the word. Do you want to know which ones are we talking about?

Firstly, the news from

TechCrunch

. With the heading “thethings.iO Pulls In $270k To Expand Its IoT Platform” the tech most important blog about startups talked about our first-round of investment, and made Twitter buzz with it.

thethings.iO on TechCrunch

Other spanish blogs such as

WWWhat’s New

(“250.000 euros de inversión para thethings.iO, startup española especializada en la “Internet de las cosas” – “€250k of investment for thethings.iO, spanish startup specialized in the Internet of Things”),

Barcinno

(“Barcelona’s thethings.io Raises €250K To Power The Internet Of Things Movement”),

ESADE News

(“La start-up thethings.iO cierra una primera ronda de inversión de 250.000 euros con la aportación de 190.000 euros de ESADE BAN” – “The startup thethings.iO closes a first-round of investment of €250k with a €190k contribution from ESADE BAN”)
or

Loogic

(“thethings.iO realiza una ronda de inversión de 250.000 euros” – “thethings.iO makes a €250k round of investment”) also published the good news about thethings.iO!

thethings.iO on Spanish blogs

But there are more! The Spanish Newspapers

‘El Economista’

(“thethings.iO cierra su primera ronda de financiación con 250.000 euros” – “thethings.iO closes its first-round of investment with €250k”),

‘La Vanguardia’

(“La empresa emergente thethings.iO capta 250.000 euros en ronda de inversión” – “The startup thethings.iO recieves €250k in a round of investment”),

‘Expansión’

(“ESADE BAN lidera la primera ronda de thethings.iO” – “ESADE BAN leads thethings.iO’s first-round of investment”),
and

‘CincoDías’

(“thethings.iO cierra su primera ronda de financiación con 250.000 euros” – “thethings.iO closes its first-round of investment with €250k”) have also published the news.

thethings.iO on Newspapers

We have no words to express the satisfaction and happiness while seeing all these appearances in such these important Media. Thank you all!

If you want to know more about thethings.iO don’t forget to visit our website and follow us on Twitter!

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We Have Been Interviewed by ARA.cat

The newspaper Ara is one of the newest newspapers in Catalonia. Every sunday there is a special magazine focused on new technologies and entrepreneurship. Last week, they interviewed our founder Marc Pous.

theThings.IO at the ARA newspaper

theThings.IO at the ARA newspaper

Translation in English

Marc Pous is a computer engineer and since some years ago he has been involved on the Internet of Things research scenario. That means, how to connect quotidian objects around us to the Internet and how people interact with them.

“The costs to make processors have decreased a lot and today is much easier to integrate computers inside objects: from watches, glasses, bikes or even plants at home”, says Pous, born in Barcelona. “One thing is to manage three or four mobile applications to interact these gadgets, but when we will have 30 or 40 gadgets connected to the Internet it will be much more complicated”, add the entrepreneur.

In June, Pous created the company Next Big Thing Labs SL with the goal to launch the platform thethings.iO, a kind of social network where users will be able to add and manage the information generated by their gadgets in real-time. “For example, if you run, the running application will share the running information with your scale; you also will be able to turn off your lights from your mobile device or see when do you need to water your plants”, says.

The Next Big Thing Labs team is composed by three people. They are looking for 150.000€ as an investment to make a strong development team during the next years. “We want to lead the Internet of Things from Barcelona”, says Pous. The beta version will be available at the end of the year.

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and be sure to check out our #IoTFriday weekly blog!

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