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'''View, Inc.''' is an American [[smart glass]] company. Its headquarters are in Milpitas, California and it has its manufacturing plant in Olive Branch, Mississippi. View manufactures and sells integrated glass units (IGUs) incorporating View Dynamic Glass, in sizes up to 10’ x 6’, and their products have been commercially available since 2012. Echromics was founded on April 9, 2007 by Dr. Paul Nguyen. The company’s original approach was to develop reflective electrochromic glass, the focus of his doctorate. Mike Scobey became CEO of the company in May, 2007 and the company changed its name to Soladigm on September 27, 2007. In December 2008, Rao Mulpuri replaced Mike Scobey as CEO. Paul Nguyen left the company on Feb 3, 2009. |
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'''View''', previously Soladigm, makes dynamic glass systems based on [[electrochromism]]. View was founded in 2006 by Dr. Paul Nguyen as Chairman and President, an electrochromism expert from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] who invented View's technology. View Dynamic Glass combined with View Intelligence intuitively tints to reduce incoming sunlight when occupants are experiencing excess glare or heat while maintaining the view. In December 2008, Dr. Rao Mulpuri became CEO of the company. On November 12, 2012, Soladigm announced a name change to View, Inc.<ref name=vieglassPress/> To date, the company has raised over $600 million dollars with an investment syndicate that includes TIAA, General Electric, Corning Glass, Seagate, Madrone Capital Partners, and the New Zealand SuperFund. |
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Shortly after Nguyen’s departure, the company decided to focus on development of absorptive electrochromic glass as it was well known that reflective electrochromic technology suffered from poor durability. At the same time, the company looked for opportunities to relocate and in the summer of 2009 moved its headquarters from Santa Rosa to Milpitas, California, USA taking over a previous Seagate facility. The Seagate facility contained a coating system that was previously used to manufacture thin film technology for hard drives and could coat much larger panes of glass compared to the equipment present in the Santa Rosa location. A number of innovative breakthroughs in the area of absorptive electrochromic technology were achieved on the new coating system over the following 18 months (late 2009 and all of 2010); these enabled View to achieve the key requirements in scale and durability that have become the basis for the dynamic glass products the company offers today. On November 8, 2012, the company changed its name to View, Inc. |
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Smart glass |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Dr. Rao Mulpuri (CEO) Dr. Robert Robzicki (CTO) James Fay (CFO) Brian Harrison (COO) Rahul Bammi (CMO) Mark Mendenhall(CCO) |
| Products | View Dynamic Glass, View Intelligence |
Number of employees | 500-750 |
| Website | viewglass.com |
View, Inc. is an American smart glass company. Its headquarters are in Milpitas, California and it has its manufacturing plant in Olive Branch, Mississippi. View manufactures and sells integrated glass units (IGUs) incorporating View Dynamic Glass, in sizes up to 10’ x 6’, and their products have been commercially available since 2012. Echromics was founded on April 9, 2007 by Dr. Paul Nguyen. The company’s original approach was to develop reflective electrochromic glass, the focus of his doctorate. Mike Scobey became CEO of the company in May, 2007 and the company changed its name to Soladigm on September 27, 2007. In December 2008, Rao Mulpuri replaced Mike Scobey as CEO. Paul Nguyen left the company on Feb 3, 2009.
Shortly after Nguyen’s departure, the company decided to focus on development of absorptive electrochromic glass as it was well known that reflective electrochromic technology suffered from poor durability. At the same time, the company looked for opportunities to relocate and in the summer of 2009 moved its headquarters from Santa Rosa to Milpitas, California, USA taking over a previous Seagate facility. The Seagate facility contained a coating system that was previously used to manufacture thin film technology for hard drives and could coat much larger panes of glass compared to the equipment present in the Santa Rosa location. A number of innovative breakthroughs in the area of absorptive electrochromic technology were achieved on the new coating system over the following 18 months (late 2009 and all of 2010); these enabled View to achieve the key requirements in scale and durability that have become the basis for the dynamic glass products the company offers today. On November 8, 2012, the company changed its name to View, Inc.
Funding
After raising around $10.6M in Series A funding from Sigma Partners and Khosla Ventures, Founder and Chairman Nguyen focused on building up a team of experienced technologists and executives and developing its technology.[1] In 2009, the company closed an additional $20.7M in Series B funding from its existing investors and moved its headquarters from Santa Rosa to Milpitas, California, USA.[2] In late 2010, General Electric selected Soladigm to be a winner out of 3,800 contestants in 150 different countries in the Ecomagination Challenge.[3] In 2011, the company raised at least $40M in Series C funding while receiving about $40M in loan from the State of Mississippi, USA to build its first manufacturing plant there.[4] In June 2012, View announced that it had raised $55M in Series D Financing.[5] In January 2015, View raised another $75M.[6] In August 2015, Forbes reported that View raised $150 million from the New Zealand Superfund, Corning, Madrone Capital Partners (associated with the Walton family), together with several leading real estate players. View was valued at over $836 million in this latest round. On February 07, 2017 View, announced that it has secured $100M in investments, including a $50 million investment by TIAA Investments, an affiliate of $882 billion Nuveen. This investment provides growth capital and enables View to expand its manufacturing capacity and to scale operations in order to meet rapidly growing demand. With the latest investment, View's current valuation is well over $1 billion.
Products
View dynamic glass electrochromic (EC) coating has multiple layers with a thickness of 1 micron. View dynamic glass has been commercially available since 2012 producing and shipping IGU's up to 6' x 10'. View uses a scalable, modular architecture to connect the IGU's utilizing a simple trunk line, terminated wiring and can be reconfigured remotely. View Intelligence is driven by a cloud connected, real time monitoring and management system to enable remote diagnosis and recovery and remote customization (eg re-zoning). As of February 2017, View Dynamic Glass has been installed in over 300 building structures across North America, with an additional 150+ underway in various commercial markets including corporate offices, healthcare, government, higher education and hospitality.[7]
References
- ^ "Soladigm - Company Information". Archived from the original on April 14, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Sigma Partners | CrunchBase Profile". Crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
- ^ Baker, David R. (2010-11-17). "General Electric picks winning ideas". Sfgate.com. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
- ^ Wang, Ucilia (2011-02-15). "Soladigm Closes $40M for Its First Smart Window Factory". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
- ^ "Soladigm raises $55M in Series D financing". Business Journal. 2012-06-25. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ "Smart window startup View is raising another $75M". GIGAOM. 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
- ^ "Smart Window Maker View Raises $150 Million". Forbes. 2015-08-13. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
Further reading
- Dolan, Kerry A. (July 30, 2010). "Smart Window Maker Soladigm To Manufacture In Mississippi". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Dries, Bill (July 30, 2010). "Olive Branch Lands Soladigm, 350 Jobs". The Daily News (Memphis, TN). Retrieved May 2, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - LaMonica, Martin (December 13, 2010). "Soladigm lands cash for energy-saving 'smart glass'". CNET News. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- Sibley, Lisa (March 19, 2012). "Soladigm raises $9.5M". Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Retrieved May 2, 2012.