Each year Wing surveys the IoT landscape through our IoT Startup State of the Union. We do this to understand what is happening beyond the headlines, and share these insights with our community. This year, we expanded our data set to 3670 deals, across 68 IoT sub-categories, between 2013 and 2017.

Cisco's proposed acquisition of Jasper is a significant milestone in the development of the Internet of Things. In this post, I look back on my 11 years working with an incredible company and an exceptional entrepreneur--and explain why Jasper is a great example of Wing's approach to working with startups.