WhereNet
Company

Last deal

$5M

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

31.01.2005

Date

1

all rounds

$5M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
WhereNet offers wireless solutions for tracking and managing enterprise assets.

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founded date

01.01.1997

founders

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

The company provides an integrated wireless infrastructure for real-time location, messaging, and telemetry applications, including WhereLAN, WhereLAN LOS, WhereTag III, WhereTag IV, WhereCall, and WherePort. They also offer Visibility Software Server, a set of software development tools for integrating WhereNet, customer, and third-party applications. WhereNet's solutions enable customers to operate more efficiently, achieve a higher return on assets, increase throughput, reduce operational costs, and provide better customer service. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, WhereNet Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Zebra Technologies Corp.
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Acquired by

Zebra Technologies

announced date

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Funding Rounds
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1

Number of Funding Rounds

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Money Raised

Their latest funding was raised on 31.01.2005. Their latest investor Crosspoint Venture Partners. Their latest round Venture - Series Unknown

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Money Raised 
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31.01.2005
5
$5M
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5
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5

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1
Dave Wisherd
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Dave Wisherd started his career with Motorola in the design of mobile communications semiconductors, hardware and systems. He was involved in similar work for King Radio and Varian-CTC. He has been a founder of several startup companies in the wireless communications field including Communications Power, Spectrian (IPO in 1995) and WhereNet (sold to Zebra in 2007). He is currently CEO of Cool Dry, a startup for unique long-wavelength RF dielectric heating technologies applied to clothes drying applications. Dave has a BSEE from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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Dave Wisherd

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Anders Gustafsson

Anders Gustafsson

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