Ecosummit TV: Christian Deilmann pitches Tado at ECO13 London. Since then the Munich-based smart heating startup launched in the UK, developed and kickstarted a smart cooling app – Christian’s original idea – and raised €10M from Target Partners, Shortcut Ventures and other unnamed investors to accelerate their growth and global expansion. Tado is Nest‘s best positioned competitor in Europe. In the last 3 years the team of 40 employees developed a scalable Internet of Things platform that supports 5.000 different types of heating systems and a growing number of air conditioning systems. In the future, Tado will connect other appliances in the smart home, too. In our opinion, a smart home rather needs only one open gateway that communicates with all online devices in the household. The question is who enters and controls the smart home first. It may well be Tado rather than Nest.

The ECO13 London presentation slides of Christian are available as PDF.

Tags: Christian Deilmann, ECO13 London, Ecosummit London 2013, Germany, Internet of Things, IoT, Kickstarter, Munich, Nest, Open Gateway, Shortcut Ventures, Smart Cooling, Smart Green Startup, Smart Heating, Smart Home, Tado, Target Partners