Quantela’s Outcomes-as-a-Service Driven Strategy Attracts Growth Capital
Smart Cities and IoT Solutions Provider Continues a Banner Year of Growth
MILPITAS, CA: Quantela Inc., an emerging leader in IoT-enabled Smart Cities and urban infrastructure digitization, announced that it has closed approximately $[40] million in growth capital for new Outcomes-as-a-Service projects and acquisitions from Digital Alpha, a leading digital infrastructure investment firm.
Quantela and Digital Alpha have pioneered an Outcomes-as-a-Service (“OaaS”) approach to Smart Cities and urban infrastructure, leveraging customer outcomes such as revenue generation and expense savings to finance the capital investment for its solutions. The OaaS approach enables Quantela to share responsibility with customers for achieving their social, economic, and environmental sustainability goals which will deliver greater value in the form of tangible outcomes that generate revenues or create new efficiencies.
“The growth capital from Digital Alpha is a validation of the market opportunities that exist for us”, said Sridhar Gadhi, Founder and Executive Chairman, Quantela Inc. “While Quantela has been growing exponentially since inception, the funding will enable us to expand our global presence faster through a combination of acquisitions and new OaaS projects, creating greater impact for societies.”
“Digital Alpha looks forward to deepening its existing partnership with the Quantela team, and to fund its novel outcome-based financing solution for the Company in order to pursue its differentiated OaaS model”, said Rick Shrotri, managing partner at Digital Alpha. “Quantela has clear, market-leading capabilities in Smart Cities, which have delivered tangible outcomes for its customers globally, addressing critical societal issues such as the digital divide, safety, security, and environmental sustainability.”
Beyond technology, Quantela enables communities to digitize their infrastructure despite budgetary restrictions by financing the initial investment and engendering a true partnership between technology providers and clients. Quantela recoups the original investment based on actual outcomes of cost savings from deployment of technologies such as smart lighting or smart waste management as well as incremental revenues earned from user charges such as parking, advertising revenue, traffic violation tickets, or anonymized aggregated data monetization. This integrated approach focuses on tangible outcomes and long-term commitment to achieve customers’ true objectives. The approach ensures that all parties are driven to meet and exceed project goals, creating a win-win for all involved.
The OaaS model has been successfully implemented in the city of Erie, PA, where city leaders leveraged an initial investment from Quantela’s investment partner Digital Alpha to secure a matching grant that doubled the budget for the project to set up free public Wi-Fi across 8 Federal Opportunity Zones. Erie will provide free public Wi-Fi to its citizens while implementing enhanced law enforcement surveillance, smart traffic control, smart parking, and energy-efficient street lighting.
Quantela’s latest OaaS deployment is in the Indian state of Kerala. The $20 million project will be the first of its kind in India, enabling the state to reduce road fatalities by improving traffic rules enforcement.
About Quantela Inc.
Headquartered in the USA, with a presence in Europe and Asia, Quantela is the leading and first-of-its-kind Outcomes-as-a-Service (OaaS) company in the space of urban infrastructure digitization that makes cities more liveable, operationally efficient, and socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable for its citizens. The company enables city administrators to deploy citizen-centric technology products that deliver quantifiable outcomes. These include public safety, congestion-free traffic, cleaner environment, improving access to enhanced and inclusive public services as well as helping cities become operationally efficient through cost savings and increased revenue generation. Quantela has more than 100 smart city deployments around the globe and has won several accolades, including the World Economic Forum’s ‘Technology Pioneers’ award in 2019, Minicorn recognition by Tracxn’s Top 20 Smart City Start-ups, and CRN’s IoT Innovators Award in 2020. For more information, visit www.quantela.com | Follow Quantela: LinkedIn & Twitter
About Digital Alpha
Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC is an investment firm focused on digital infrastructure and services required by the digital economy, with a strategic collaboration agreement with Cisco Systems, Inc. As part of this agreement, Digital Alpha has preferred access to Cisco’s pipeline of commercial opportunities requiring equity financing. Digital Alpha believes that it is the first firm focused on making private equity investments in the significant growth opportunities required to underpin the Digital Economy, including smart cities, next-generation broadband networks, and enterprise data management and communication solutions. Digital Alpha is headquartered in Henderson, NV, with offices in San Francisco and London, and was founded by Rick Shrotri, former Head of the Global Infrastructure Funds (GIF) team at Cisco. For more information, please visit www.digitalalpha.net.
