Top 10 Startups developing AI for Smart Home

Updated: February 03, 2024

AI applications for smart home include smart speakers, IoT automation systems, security systems, waste sorting, energy saving systems.
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Country: China | Funding: $452.9M
Rokid is an innovative technology company specializing in robotics research and AI development. It develops Pebble virtual assistant.
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Country: Japan | Funding: $236M
SoftBank Robotics develops robots and offers robot-related products and services, including “Pepper”.
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Country: USA | Funding: $230M
Nest Labs is a home automation company manufacturing sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning thermostats and smoke detectors.
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Country: USA | Funding: $174.6M
Sense is offering home owners better insight into their energy usage levels, so they can adjust accordingly. The tech, which relies on AI/ML, works with smart meters from companies like Landis+Gyr and Schneider Electric.
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Country: China | Funding: $153M
ROOBO is dedicated to creating a holistic system that integrates world leading A.I. robot system, product and service. They develop Pudding - smart robots for children and ROS.AI - artificial intelligence solution platform that provides developer with a complete AI system solution consisting chips, modules, operating system, content applications, cloud service and others for household electric appliances, automobiles, robots and other industries, and is a more comprehensive and flexible open platform and a solution platform.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $149.4M
Ecobee is a provider of Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostats comes with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant built in for residential and commercial applications.
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Country: USA | Funding: $22.6M
Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5.2M
Sighthound develops smart surveillance software powered by Computer Vision, provides computer vision cloud API for developers and Vision SDK, accelerating third-party products with proprietary deeply-learned computer vision technology
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Country: Poland | Funding: $2.3M
BIN-e is a smart building solution company that provides smart waste bin for office and public spaces. It uses a set of sensors to identify the type of waste that is being disposed of, segregates the waste, compresses it, and places it in the relevant chamber. The integrated computer gathers data about every item that is disposed of.
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Country: Kazakhstan
Qubiot, a smart home devices startup, has launched the first all-in-one universal smart home remote that does not  require an internet connection and is suitable for all smart home devices.