TVS Motor invests US$3.85 million in TagBox
Date: 10 May 2019
TVS
Motor Company has invested US$3.85 Million in TagBox, a supply chain IIoT and
Machine Learning platform company as part of its Series A funding round. This
round was entirely led by TVS Motor Company Limited and its Singapore based
Subsidiary, TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte. Limited.
TagBox
plans to use the funds to strengthen product innovation and R&D while
expanding its global footprint. TagBox will continue to invest in their BoxLens
and AssetLens platforms and develop new predictive analytics and automation
solutions to solve various customer use cases.
Rajesh
Narasimhan, Board Member of TVS Motor Company and CEO of TVS Motor (Singapore)
quoted “We evaluated many companies providing IoT solutions in the Supply Chain
and logistics space and found TagBox’s product offerings and solutions to be an
unique blend of IoT, Machine Learning and close-loop AI. Their ability to help
organisations monitor, predict and prevent SKU health risk in the supply chain
is a clear differentiator. We are happy to invest in and strategically partner
TagBox as they continue to pursue bottomline impact for Fortune 1000 companies
by improving their supply chain processes while leveraging them for our own
group businesses. Our current investment in Tagbox is part of the initial set
of investments being made in strategically relevant digital startups.”
“Organisations
across the globe are increasingly adopting IoT and Machine Learning solutions
to improve their supply chains and operations. We are excited that TVS Motor’s
worldwide operations and experiences will help make our product and value
proposition stronger and highly differentiated”, said Adarsh Kumar, CEO of
TagBox.
Adarsh
further added, “We have already delivered ROI from our IoT based predictive
insights solutions for leading Retail, E-commerce, Pharma, F&B, Dairy and
Manufacturing companies in India and APAC. We believe it is now time to scale
our product globally.”