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Helium rebranded Nova Labs, raises $200m in Series D – from a16z, DT, Goodyear, Nokia

Helium, the company in charge of the crowd-sourced Helium non-cellular IoT and cellular 5G networks, has rebranded as Nova Labs, and announced $200 million of Series D funding from New York-based investment company Tiger Global and Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Besides...

Why farming needs 5G, and not just LoRaWAN and NB-IoT – an investor’s view, from NGP Capital

Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today. LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide total coverage of fields, in...