Intelligent lighting hot air strikes, Luma Amazon personally invested

In recent years, we have seen a lot of home Wi-Fi lighting solutions. But did not expect is that Amazon actually invested in a company called Luma (other investors also include Accel, as well as the former CEO AT&T), which is expected to become a strong competitor Eero and other companies. However, Luma and Eero is still somewhat different, the first price. Luma current single device offer $149, three pieces of $499; and Eero single device offer is $199, corresponding to the three piece is $499.

Both support to manage multiple devices through the matching application, but Luma claims that their security services will be better, because of its entrepreneurial background, Paul Judge and Mike Van Bruinisse were CipherTrust (Secure Computing Corp. before being acquired by PureWire (Secure Computing) and was bought by Corp. executives). In addition, Judge is also the co-founder of Pindrop Security.

Amazon's investment is part of a $12 million 500 thousand series A round of financing, the former AT&T CEO Dave Dorman and Felicis Ventures, Base Ventures, BIP Capital, Relay Ventures and Webb Investment Network have also given seed investment.

In fact, the two companies have already produced a number of intersection, especially around the Amazon Echo products. Up to now, Luma has sold 30000 sets of devices to consumers, retail channels also sold the same number, is expected to ship in June of this year.

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