Investments
78Portfolio Exits
8Partners & Customers
1About JCI Ventures
JCI Ventures partners with and invests in startups whose solutions, technologies, and IP contribute to that purpose. The firm is focused on creating intelligent, energy efficient, and secure buildings and building environments for the next generation of smart cities and communities.

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Latest JCI Ventures News
Aug 29, 2023
CVC Unplugged: Digitising buildings to solve the climate crisis Aug 29, 2023 • Fernando Moncada Rivera With buildings accounting for 40% of all GHG emissions, investor JCI Ventures' Youssef Mawad seeks ways to make the built environment smarter and greener. Increasingly, buildings are more than just bricks and mortar. Today they’re smarter, they’re more capable, they’re greener, and they’re continually improving. Few companies are doing more work in this space than Johnson Controls, and today I’m speaking with Youssef Mawad, managing director Johnson Controls’ CVC unit, JCI Ventures. In our conversation, Mawad talks about finding his feet when he first started in the role, and the process of figuring out where you fit in an organisation and how you can contribute real value, as well as the importance of establishing purpose early on. We talk about the digitisation and decarbonisation of the built environment, and the sheer size of the opportunity that exists to do this globally, given that roughly 40% of all emissions come from buildings. The simple fact is that no grand energy transition can exist to meet our climate goals without a serious approach to make buildings greener – and an effective way to do that is also to make them more digital. Be sure to like, share and subscribe! Take a listen here: Fernando Moncada Rivera Fernando Moncada Rivera is a reporter at Global Corporate Venturing and also host of the CVC Unplugged podcast .
JCI Ventures Investments
78 Investments
JCI Ventures has made 78 investments. Their latest investment was in Alcatraz AI as part of their Series A on September 9, 2022.

JCI Ventures Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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9/13/2022 | Series A | Alcatraz AI | $25M | No | 14 | |
8/25/2022 | Series D - II | Nozomi Networks | No | 2 | ||
7/25/2022 | Seed VC - II | XY Sense | $8M | Yes | 1 | |
7/11/2022 | Series A - II | |||||
2/1/2022 | Unattributed VC |
Date | 9/13/2022 | 8/25/2022 | 7/25/2022 | 7/11/2022 | 2/1/2022 |
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Round | Series A | Series D - II | Seed VC - II | Series A - II | Unattributed VC |
Company | Alcatraz AI | Nozomi Networks | XY Sense | ||
Amount | $25M | $8M | |||
New? | No | No | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 14 | 2 | 1 |
JCI Ventures Portfolio Exits
8 Portfolio Exits
JCI Ventures has 8 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was RedSeal Networks on April 10, 2019.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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4/10/2019 | Acq - Fin | 4 | |||
Date | 4/10/2019 | ||||
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Exit | Acq - Fin | ||||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 4 |
JCI Ventures Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
JCI Ventures has 1 strategic partners and customers. JCI Ventures recently partnered with Soter Technologies on April 4, 2023.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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4/14/2023 | Licensor | United States | Johnson Controls, Soter Technologies bring vaping detection technology to schools Johnson Controls is collaborating with Soter Technologies , a growing health-safety technology company , to offer technology to school administrators to combat the student vaping epidemic . | 1 |
Date | 4/14/2023 |
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Type | Licensor |
Business Partner | |
Country | United States |
News Snippet | Johnson Controls, Soter Technologies bring vaping detection technology to schools Johnson Controls is collaborating with Soter Technologies , a growing health-safety technology company , to offer technology to school administrators to combat the student vaping epidemic . |
Sources | 1 |
JCI Ventures Team
1 Team Member
JCI Ventures has 1 team member, including current Senior Director, Rain Cui.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Rain Cui | Senior Director | Current |
Name | Rain Cui |
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Work History | |
Title | Senior Director |
Status | Current |