A coworker recently joked that our StratIS CEO Felicite Moorman and CTO Ryan Buchert kicked off a world domination tour this September. While funny, it borders on truth. Our team is running at full speed these days, from engineering and integrating existing product lines into our Smart City commercial residential IoT platform, to exploring partnerships, conferences, marketing, business development, support and innumerable other opportunities with unprecedented strategic focus. We have had an amazing quarter, and it is one to share.
Records Set and Reset
We are setting records as quickly as we are surpassing them, in a market that we made. We created StratIS for one simple reason, to give people more control; control that starts with access and energy control for property owners and managers and carries the benefits of control on to their residents.
We flew past our first 100,000 units installed in MultiFamily and Campus Communities and are quickly approaching 110,000. Our installation growth rate rivals that of behemoth service providers like Comcast. If we were the celebrating types, that would be something to cheer, but we are far too excited executing on our vision these days.
Rolling Out Our Resident App
StratIS is the only Internet of Things App created for total Property Management Control of the Smart MultiFamily Unit. The StratIS Resident App is revolutionary and changes how residents access their living space and control their energy usage, but prioritizes the return on investment for the owners and managers, allowing unprecedented collaboration for both, optimizing property efficiencies.
The StratIS App allows Residents to lock and unlock their doors with their smart phones, control their thermostats, and engage preinstalled automation peripherals. Property Managers can purchase the Resident App at a per year, per unit, site-wide cost, or Residents can directly purchase the app.
Huge In Korea
Our leaders, Felicite Moorman and Ryan Buchert, spent the last week at Smart Cities Innovation Summit Asia in Goyang City, Republic of Korea. When Felicite was invited to highlight the success of StratIS in a keynote address, we were honored, but not surprised. City planners and government officials across the globe are looking to StratIS as the model for the commercial residential smart start to Smart Cities. Cities throughout Asia is taking the development of Smart Cities extremely seriously and are interested in models that are currently installed and working across the globe. Our Team at StratIS took advantage of the opportunity to meet with the Mayor of Goyang City and other world leaders, to learn about real pain points that they are facing, as well as their pioneering urban developments.
Upon returning from Korea, Moorman will be a featured speaker for an Urban Land Institute event at the Union League in Philadelphia. The panel explores “Disruptive Technology, Ten Million People, and a Warmer Planet.” From there, the team heads south to Washington, D.C. for Smart Cities Week an event hosted by the Smart Cities Council. StratIS will exhibit its groundbreaking solution in Innovation Alley.
A Stellar September
To cap off the month, we have been named a Stellar Startup finalist by the Philadelphia Media Network. It’s a great honor for us to be recognized in our hometown among some truly great companies.
“Stellar StartUp Awards is an extension of our newsroom coverage, where reporters like Diane Mastrull have been covering local entrepreneurs and their stories for years,” says Jennifer Wolf Director of Special Events, Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com.
Stellar Startups is produced by the Events Team at Philadelphia Media Network, with great support from their newsroom.
“An outside, third-party judging panel was enlisted to review applications and identify the finalists,” Wolf says. “Nominations were solicited in our paper and online over the course of two months. The nomination process was open to the public with 100 nomination applications.”
StratIS is nominated in the Technology category.
“Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs are rich with startups. Our event panelists, including Scrub Daddy inventor Aaron Krause, are living proof that start ups are a driving force in our community,” Wolf says.
There are 3-4 finalists per category, with a first-time reveal of the winner in each category at the awards program on Thursday, September 29, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Pennovation Center, 3601 Grays Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19146.
Wish us just a little more luck!