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Samsara funding, valuation and investors
Industrial IoT platform for fleet, equipment, and operations visibility.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series F
$300M · September 2019
Latest known valuation
$6.3B
Series F · September 2019
Total disclosed equity funding
$325M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
public
public · San Francisco, California
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Tiger Global Management
Other: Andreessen Horowitz , General Catalyst
Overview
Samsara provides cloud-connected sensors, dashcams, and software for fleet management, equipment monitoring, and industrial operations. Founded in 2015 by Meraki co-founders Sanjit Biswas and John Bick, the company serves logistics, construction, field services, and manufacturing customers with real-time visibility and safety tools. Samsara raised $300M in a 2019 Series F at $6.3B led by Tiger Global, with a16z and General Catalyst participating, and went public on NYSE (IOT) in December 2021.
Why Samsara is interesting
Meraki founders' IoT scale story — from connected operations hardware to NYSE: IOT with a16z, General Catalyst, and Tiger Global in the cap table.
Product & use cases
Samsara sells IoT gateways, vehicle dashcams, asset tags, and a cloud dashboard for GPS tracking, driver safety, equipment utilization, and compliance workflows across fleets and industrial sites.
- Commercial fleet GPS tracking and route optimization
- Driver safety coaching with AI dashcam alerts
- Construction equipment utilization monitoring
- DOT compliance and ELD logging for trucking
Key facts
- IPO (Dec 2021): NYSE ticker IOT
- Series F (Sep 2019): $300M at $6.3B led by Tiger Global — PR Newswire
- Founded by Meraki co-founders Sanjit Biswas and John Bick
- a16z led Series A; General Catalyst and Tiger in growth rounds
Funding history (newest first)
Series F
2019-09 $300M Valuation: $6.3BSeries A
2015 $25MSource: https://www.samsara.com/company/news/series-a-funding
Investors in our directory
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Integrated hardware-software stack with strong mid-market GTM — not just telematics dots on a map but workflow software for operations managers.
Industrial IoT is fragmented between pure telematics vendors and vertical SaaS. Samsara's unified platform and public-market scale (NYSE: IOT) give it R&D budget, but competition from Motive and Geotab is intense in fleet safety.
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Geotab direct
Fleet telematics leader; strong in trucking and government fleets.
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Verizon Connect incumbent
Enterprise fleet management bundled with carrier relationships.
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Motive (KeepTruckin) direct
ELD and fleet safety competitor with overlapping dashcam products.
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Trimble incumbent
Construction and agriculture telematics incumbent.
Notable stories
- Biswas and Bick sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2B, then built Samsara to apply the connected-device playbook to trucks and industrial equipment.
- Samsara's 2021 IPO made it one of the largest industrial IoT public companies from the 2010s venture wave.
Industries
Market / IPO context
Ticker: IOT (NYSE)
IPO status: public
IPO date: 2021-12
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