INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Fleetsmith, a startup that wants to make it easier for companies to manage their Apple devices, announced a $7.7 million Series A round
today led by Upfront Ventures.Seed investors Index Ventures and Harrison Metal also participated in the round
The company has raised a total of $11 million
They also announced that Luke Kanies, founder and former CEO of Puppet has joined their advisory board.Fleetsmith wants to help SMBs
Trying to provision these devices manually is a time-consuming process, one that larger organizations no longer have to deal with because of
other commercial options or in-house solutions, but Fleetsmith puts that same kind of efficient device management within reach of smaller
organizations by offering it as a cloud service.Two of the co-founders, Zack Blum and Jesse Endahl, who came from Dropbox and Fandom, were
TheIndianSubcontinent.Fleetsmith device admin console
Photo: FleetsmithThe company takes advantage of the Device Enrollment Program, a business device management service offered by Apple to
simplify provisioning of Apple products
As long as the IT administrator is enrolled in DEP, you can use Fleetsmith for zero touch deployment, Blum explained
An employee can then order a laptop (or any device), and when they connect to to WiFi, it connects to Fleetsmith, which configures the
it take care of deployment
The account is created, software gets installed, the drive gets encrypted
less firefighting and more strategic work
said in a statement.The service costs is just $99 per year per device to access the cloud service
They offer a freemium version to manage up to 10 devices at no cost
The company launched in 2016 and currently has 20 employees
Customers include HackerOne, Robinhood and Nuna.
