From schematic to certified fleet — one platform instead of five vendors and eighteen months.
Singapore · Dubai · IndiaFounder: YC S21 alum
The moment
AI can build any app in a weekend. But it can't build the device.
Making software is now free. Making certified, connected hardware is still hard. We do the hard part.
Even Y Combinator agrees — their 2026 thesis: "software is the substrate, not the moat."
The problem
One product. Five companies. Nobody owns the outcome.
Hardware design firmowns the board
Firmware contractorowns the code
Cloud platformowns the data
Update serviceowns the fleet
Compliance consultantowns the paperwork
18 monthsand every hand-off is a rewrite
A real stack today: PCB design house + firmware agency + Azure IoT Hub + Azure Data Explorer + Mender + a compliance consultancy — six contracts, six invoices, zero accountability.
And now skipping it is illegal: EU Cyber Resilience Act — reporting from 11 Sept 2026, fines up to €15M or 2.5% of global turnover.
The solution
All five, under one roof.
SILICONPROOFone contract · weeks, not years
Designwe design the electronics
Firmwareonly runs code we signed
Cloudanalytics + AI watching 24/7
Updatesstaged rollouts, emergency stop
Compliancethe EU paperwork, produced for you
Think Lovable + Supabase + Vercel — for hardware.
Not slides. Shipped.
Fleets in the field. Platform live.
Products deployed
UltraDetekt air-quality monitors · VapeDetekt vape & smoke detection · Ventrix clinical line — running in Singapore, the UAE, and India today.
Platform running
Factory device identity · staged fleet updates · real-time analytics with full history · AI monitoring agent · automated security evidence on every firmware release.
Markets
Singapore · UAE · Saudi Arabia · Malaysia · India — with the EU compliance wave as the expansion trigger.
We built all of this for our own product lines first. Now every device maker can run on it.
Why it must be one company
Security isn't a feature. It's a chain.
Identity born in the factory
→
Checked at every power-on
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Renewed with every update
→
Proven in the compliance file
Break the chain anywhere and the certification fails. That's why five vendors can't do it — and one platform can.
The question everyone asks
"Can't we just use Azure?" Azure starts at the cloud. Your product starts at the factory.
1Design the board
2Write the firmware
3Keys born inside the chip
4Manufacture & provision
5Connect to cloud
6Dashboards, analytics & AI
7Updates & compliance
Azure IoT
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✓
$$$ add-on
add-on
Golioth
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SDK only
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✓
thin
updates only
Mender
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updates only
SiliconProof
✓
✓
✓
✓
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The secret keys must be created inside the chip, at the factory, and never leave it — no cloud service can do that after the fact. Azure's own shared-responsibility model says it plainly: device security is the customer's problem. We make it ours.
How one platform covers everything
IoT hardware looks infinite. It isn't.
Two chip families × four radios ≈ the entire space. Every combination is a template, not a project.
WiFi
Ethernet
LoRaWAN
LTE / Cellular
ESP32 family
ShippedUltraDetekt
ShippedVapeDetekt
rare — by design
Templatepartner module
STM32 family
Templatebuild-proven
Templatebuild-proven
ShippedVentrix line
Templatepartner module
Shipped in the fieldTemplate readyDeliberately not offered
Click any cell for the story behind it.
Templates are earned in the field, not generated — a shipped fleet stands behind every coral cell. That's the moat a code generator can't copy.
The intelligence is templated too
Every vertical ships with an AI agent that already knows what matters.
Air QualityCO2, particles, compliance standards built in
Vape Detectionschools, hotels, facilities
Clinical Roomspressure, air changes, audit trail
Cold Chainpharma & food, excursion alerts
Buildings & HVACfilters, energy, comfort
Machine Healthvibration, diagnose-to-the-part
Click a vertical to see what its agent knows out of the box.
Customers customize the agent — they never start from a blank page.
What the customer pays
Per device, per year: them vs us.
$120–240
Azure + Mender + DIY compliance
$24
SiliconProof all-in
500 devicesa building, a hospital, a campus
5–10× cheaper
$25–55
incumbent stack + compliance
$12
SiliconProof
10,000 devicesa national chain
2–4× cheaper
$15–20
incumbent stack + compliance
$7.20
SiliconProof
100,000 devicesan OEM fleet
50–60% cheaper — compliance included
Grey bars: Azure IoT Hub + Azure Data Explorer + Mender/Device Update at public list pricing (2026), 1-minute telemetry, as actually deployed — production plus dev/staging environments, vendor support plans, and monitoring; lighter segment = do-it-yourself CRA compliance (staff + tooling, estimated). Their analytics servers are billed to every customer separately — ours are shared across the platform, which is why the gap is largest exactly where most customers are. Our cost: under $1/device/yr → 93–97% gross margin.
Why regulators moved
Hackers stopped attacking servers. They walk in through the devices.
Mirai botnetHundreds of thousands of hacked cameras and routers took down much of the internet's DNS in one afternoon.
The fish tankA casino was breached through a connected aquarium thermometer in its lobby.
Target40M payment cards stolen — the attackers got in through the HVAC vendor's connection.
So — from 11 September 2026 — the EU requires every device maker to master all of this:
Secure bootFirmware signingSecure OTA updatesmTLSX.509 certificatesPKIHSM key custodySecure elementsFactory key provisioningSBOM per releaseCVE monitoringCoordinated disclosure24-hour incident reportingConformity file5-year support period
And this is not ISO 27001 or SOC 2 — those audit your company's paperwork, once a year. CRA regulates the product itself, down to the silicon: fail it and the product is illegal to sell in the EU.
No small device company can hire for this wall — and CRA is going global, the way GDPR did. That's the platform: we already built every item on it.
The market
Every connected device needs this. Soon, by law.
$5.5–12.6T
annual economic value IoT is projected to enable by 2030 — McKinsey Global Institute
25B → 40B
connected devices, 2026 → 2030 — every one needs identity, updates, and (in the EU) compliance
~$1T
the IoT market itself crosses one trillion dollars in 2026 — Fortune Business Insights
We charge $12–24 per device per year for the layer every single one of them is required to have — every 1M devices under management ≈ $12–24M ARR, at software margins.
Sources: McKinsey Global Institute, "IoT: catching up to an accelerating opportunity" (value enabled by 2030); Fortune Business Insights IoT market report; device-count forecasts per industry trackers, 2026.
The billion-dollar math
Per-device subscriptions at scale are already a proven $2B model.
$1.9B
Samsara's ARR (FY2026, +30% YoY, GAAP-profitable) — built on per-asset IoT subscriptions in ONE vertical: vehicle fleets
$50–100
our blended revenue per device per year for full-stack customers: platform ($12–24) + AI agent + CRA compliance pack + dedicated infrastructure
<0.1%
of the world's 25–40B connected devices ≈ 15–20M under management — that's the $1B ARR line
And our motion compounds: every customer is a device maker — one deal brings an entire fleet, and CRA puts a legal deadline on every one of them.
Samsara FY2026 results (Mar 2026, businesswire/investor filings). Blended ARPU is the pricing ladder on the next slide, not a projection.
Pricing
Cheaper at every tier — with compliance included.
Starter
$2
/device/mo · up to 500
Full platform: analytics, history, updates, dashboards
Growth
$1
/device/mo · to 10k
+ API access, SSO, priority support
Scale
$0.60
/device/mo · to 100k
Annual commit, volume SLA
Enterprise
Custom
dedicated infrastructure
Single-tenant for regulated data — hospitals, sovereignty
CRA Pack
$500+
/mo · per product line
Compliance file, security evidence, EU incident reporting
At every tier: below what the incumbents charge for plumbing alone — with the mandatory parts (compliance) and the valuable parts (data + AI) included.
Team
Rohan Kalani — Founder & CEO
Track record
YC S21 · ex-COO, Maker Village — India's largest hardware incubator: 75 startups, ₹100 crore raised · IIM Kozhikode · NIT Calicut · U.S. State Dept IVLP selectee
Builder, not observer
Granted patent — photocatalytic remediation reactor (Indian Patent 592571), the core technology of the Danum industrial purifier line. Invented, certified, manufactured, and shipped hardware — then built the platform to do it for everyone.
CRA clock: 11 September 2026
Devices in the field. Platform live. Regulation incoming.
When software is free, certification is the product.