Clockworks Analytics – a leading provider of SaaS building analytics – recently announced that it has closed a funding round of $16.1 million. Carom Growth Partners led the funding round with participation from existing investor SE Ventures. This funding round brings the company’s total to over $28 million since being founded.
This funding round comes as Clockworks looks to expand its leadership position as the largest fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) platform for the built environment, with 420,000 connected mechanical assets streaming data every five minutes for clients in over 30 countries. And Clockworks’ intelligent HVAC analytics helps building teams identify their buildings’ highest priority energy, comfort, and equipment issues – complete with root-cause diagnostics and recommended actions.
Built based on a form of AI called an Expert System that simulates a human expert’s decision-making, the platform’s diagnostics have been fine-tuned and expanded with each connected building and piece of equipment. And Clockworks is utilizing this intelligence to power the next generation of smart proactive buildings This latest funding round will support continued product development, investments in sales and marketing, and expansion of the company’s international presence.
The company’s clients — ranging across healthcare services, life sciences, higher education, commercial real estate, and mechanical and operations service providers — have completed more than 40,000 building tasks to correct issues identified by Clockworks’ diagnostics and identified over 286K tonnes of carbon savings. And Clockworks’ investors continue to be impressed by the company’s marquee accounts, including MIT, Kaiser Permanente, Harvard University, Merck, and GK Norway, and Clockworks’ 278% growth in its channel partner business over the last year.
With the energy reductions and operational efficiencies it provides, Clockworks is well-positioned to address many of the industry’s current pain points, including growing carbon pricing and energy costs in Europe, increasing ESG regulatory requirements, and shifting demographics in building operations that include an aging workforce and shrinking talent pools.
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“Clockworks Analytics is one of the biggest innovators for the built environment. We were impressed by the founders’ vision to transform the built environment and how that has developed into a rapidly growing SaaS platform over the past few years. Going forward, Clockworks Analytics is a global technology platform that can drive a substantial ROI for building owners and property managers. The long-term vision is for Clockworks to be deployed in every building that has a BAS system which could be further optimized.”
— Matt Tara, Managing Partner of Carom Growth Partners
“We invest in category leaders addressing large market opportunities. Clockworks Analytics continues to offer unprecedented analytical insight that enables buildings to digitize and optimize asset performance and maintenance, ultimately driving cost savings and reduced energy and carbon impact. As buildings continue to seek better ways to be energy efficient and cost effective, we see an ongoing opportunity for Clockworks Analytics solutions to be used to mitigate hardware failure and simplify operations while providing best in class fault detection software.”
— Amit Chaturvedy, Global Head & Managing Partner, SE Ventures
“I’m thrilled with the confidence that our investors are showing in Clockworks. It’s easy to see how our software is having an effect in reducing carbon emissions and energy costs. By using our solution, our customers avoided 160,000 tonnes of carbon emissions last year alone.”
— Brian Day, Co-CEO, Clockworks Analytics
“These new investment dollars give us the capital we need to further accelerate our already strong growth, both in North America and abroad, and to continue to invest in what we believe is the best technology in the FD&D market.”
— Co-CEO Nick Gayeski
