- Dryad Networks, a Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany-based environmental IoT startup, secured additional €1.6m in funding
- The backer was ProFIT Brandenburg, a program sponsored by the German state of Brandenburg’s Ministry of Economics, Labor and Energy (MWAE)
- Last October, the company secured seed capital of €1.8m, bringing the total funding now available to €3.4m
- Dryad will also use the additional funding to speed up the product development process, from R&D and testing through to market introduction
- The firm expects to begin two proof of concept deployments in Germany and Africa by summer 2021
- Led by Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO and co-founder, Dryad is advancing Silvanet, a large-scale IoT network for the ultra-early detection of wildfires
