STAMFORD, Conn.– SwiftConnect today announced the closing of a $37 million Series B financing to expand its access network for connecting people to the right place at the right time. The company’s latest investment round is led by Quadri Ventures, with participation from new investors HID (part of ASSA ABLOY), Egis Capital Partners, and Klingenstein Fields Advisors. Returning investors include Crow Holdings, JLL Spark, Navitas Capital, Tanzola Corp., and Spring Rock Capital. In addition to expanding the company’s access network, the funding will be used to scale operations, drive geographic expansion, and support new product initiatives. SwiftConnect has raised $74 million in total funding to date.
“We are thrilled to make a significant further investment in SwiftConnect, recognizing the company’s innovative solution for physical access, driven management team, and viral market adoption with major enterprise brands and real estate customers,” said Chris James, Managing Partner at Quadri Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on enterprise software. “We are fully committed to supporting SwiftConnect’s next phase of growth as we embrace its transformative vision of being the global network for access to everything people need, when they need it.”
SwiftConnect’s success is grounded in its ability to automate, centralize and digitize access management, user provisioning, and credential lifecycle management. This gives people the freedom to use their mobile access pass in NFC wallets and any other credentials to conveniently access buildings, offices and enterprise resources, amenities, and much more–regardless of the existing access control, identity management and building systems in place.
“Our Series B fundraise signals strong and ongoing investor confidence in SwiftConnect as we continue to reshape the physical access paradigm,” said Co-CEOs Chip Kruger and Matt Kopel of SwiftConnect. “As the network that powers a hassle-free experience for accessing places, spaces and things, SwiftConnect combines our vast partner ecosystem and vendor-neutral SaaS platform with our customer base of multinational organizations, iconic commercial real estate properties and portfolios, and other organizations to deliver the future of truly connected access and identity management. The new funding will continue to drive our leadership position in making seamless and secure access to anywhere possible so people can more easily access the most important things in their lives.”
SwiftConnect is live in hundreds of millions of square feet across multiple types of customers and vertical markets, globally. The company’s current customer base represents a potential opportunity of over a billion square feet of office space and more than two million users. SwiftConnect’s market traction includes:
- Deployments of NFC wallets for access at Fortune 100 organizations, leading pharmaceutical companies, multiple global financial institutions, multinational professional services companies, and some of the world’s largest technology companies.
- Rapid international expansion with notable European corporations as well as prestigious buildings and portfolios, such as British Land properties, 8 Bishopsgate in London, and MARK’s 60 Dawson Street in Dublin.
- Continued leadership in the US with the industry’s first deployment of corporate badge in Google Wallet, following the world’s first deployment of NFC wallet for access at Silverstein’s 7 World Trade Center, as well as implementations across multiple properties in the Hines portfolio, Bridge Commercial Real Estate properties, and numerous other buildings.
Following on from SwiftConnect’s acquisition of Detrios, the company recently purchased UK-based FlitchTech to expand its ability to provide highly complex access control integration services across multiple continents, while increasing its footprint in the higher education vertical. SwiftConnect has also extended its expertise into the high-end multifamily rental market and has completed deployments in North America.
