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Built for ambitious early-stage connected-product companies

Build what makes you different.We’ll handle the rest.

SeedStack gives connected-product startups the software, cloud and device infrastructure they need to get from prototype to market — without building an entire platform team.

Your Product
Device ·Sensor ·QR ·NFC
SeedStack
Identity ·Devices ·Data ·Cloud
Your Application
Web App ·Dashboard ·Algorithm ·AI
The Reality of Hardware Startups

Your seed money should build your advantage.

Your device, algorithm and intellectual property are what make your company valuable. Account systems aren’t.

Neither are authentication, device provisioning, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, cloud infrastructure or another admin portal.

Yet turning a prototype into a commercial product suddenly requires all of them.

The Default Route

Rebuilding commodity infrastructure

  • Months recruiting backend, embedded, cloud & frontend engineers
  • Building device management and data infrastructure from scratch
  • Configuring multi-tenant auth, organization roles, and device permissions
  • Ongoing DevOps overhead, database tuning, and security patches

Result: Early funding gets consumed building software your customers never even choose you for.

The SeedStack Route

Focus on your actual product

  • Existing cloud and device infrastructure ready from day one
  • 100% of engineering focused on your hardware, algorithm and user value
  • Hands-on technical collaboration with experienced founding engineers
  • Commercial customer pilot web apps delivered in weeks, not quarters

Result: You reach paying customer traction and commercial revenue faster with less burn.

Core Architecture

The stack behind your product.

Everything between your product and your application.

Connect

Connect hardware, sensors, tags and physical touchpoints straight to the cloud.

Includes:
  • Device provisioning and status monitoring
  • Hardware, sensor, QR and NFC integration
Core capabilities
  • Device onboarding and provisioning
  • Cellular, Wi-Fi and low-power network integration
  • Dynamic QR routing and NFC interaction handling

Identify

Complete user management and access control built for connected devices.

Includes:
  • Customer accounts and team access
  • Device-level permissions and ownership
Core capabilities
  • Single sign-on and token-based authentication
  • Multi-tier organizational roles and access controls
  • Customer tenancy boundaries and security

Process

Handle data streaming from connected devices and physical interactions.

Includes:
  • Event routing and data ingestion
  • Automated condition triggers and alerts
Core capabilities
  • Data normalization and ingestion pipelines
  • Event routing and automated retry logic
  • API endpoints and webhook triggers

Store

Scalable data storage designed for sensor readings, device history, and operational logs.

Includes:
  • Time-series sensor telemetry storage
  • Device configuration and lifecycle history
Core capabilities
  • Time-series data storage
  • Automated backups and data lifecycle policies
  • Standardized querying and export interfaces

Understand

Turn raw hardware readings into clear insight for your team and your end customers.

Includes:
  • Customer-facing operational dashboards
  • Configurable threshold alerts and notifications
Core capabilities
  • Operational dashboards and time-series charting
  • Alerts and notifications via email or webhook
  • Fleet health diagnostics and trend reports

Operate

Production-ready cloud operations so you never have to configure servers.

Includes:
  • Managed cloud deployment and global hosting
  • Continuous monitoring, updates and maintenance
Core capabilities
  • Managed cloud deployment and hosting
  • Uptime monitoring and system health checks
  • Managed updates and infrastructure maintenance

Have custom sensors, protocols or edge constraints? We configure the stack around your hardware.

The Customer Experience

Your product. Your brand. Powered by SeedStack.

SeedStack isn’t simply invisible cloud plumbing and APIs. Your team and customers receive a complete, production-ready web application configured around your physical devices.

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Platform Views
White-label Ready
Styled with your brand logos, colors, custom domain, and customer portals.

Device Fleet Management

Provisioned hardware, heartbeat frequency, and connection state.

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DEV-NODE-8821Bioacoustic Unit rev3
Block A, East Orchard
4G LTE (98%)4s ago
DEV-NODE-8822Bioacoustic Unit rev3
Block B, Honeycomb Nursery
4G LTE (94%)12s ago
DEV-NODE-8823Bioacoustic Unit rev3
Block C, Blossom Ridge
4G LTE (89%)25s ago
DEV-NODE-8824Bioacoustic Unit rev3
Perimeter West
LoRaWAN4m ago
Proven in Production

Already powering real products.

Real physical-product and sensor companies operating in the field today, with software and cloud infrastructure handled by SeedStack.

AgriSound deployed in the field
Live Customer Deployment

AgriSound

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Smart listening technology for agriculture and biodiversity

AgriSound develops bioacoustic listening devices that capture pollinator activity in commercial orchards and farms to optimize crop yields and track biodiversity.

SeedStack's Role

SeedStack provides the software and cloud infrastructure behind AgriSound’s connected product.

Device managementData ingestionCloud infrastructureWeb application
AviaSENZE deployed in the field
Live Customer Deployment

AviaSENZE

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Intelligent monitoring for the poultry industry

AviaSENZE develops technology for the poultry industry, focused on digitising animal health, welfare and productivity monitoring.

SeedStack's Role

SeedStack provides the software and cloud infrastructure behind AviaSENZE’s connected product.

Device managementSensor data ingestionCloud infrastructureWeb application
Commercial Model

Hire a platform. Not a platform team.

Connected-product companies often assemble an entire cloud platform engineering squad before having verified product-market fit.

Option 01

Build it yourself

Multiple specialist hires across several disciplines:

Backend engineer (telemetry & APIs)
Frontend engineer (dashboards & web app)
Cloud / DevOps specialist (uptime & pipelines)
Security & compliance expertise
The reality:

Recruitment search time + months of initial development + ongoing maintenance and patching overhead.

Option 02

Start with SeedStack

A fraction of the cost of building an internal platform team:

Existing infrastructure: Existing cloud and device infrastructure ready from day one.
Experienced engineering support: Hands-on technical partnership with founders who’ve done it before.
No recruitment delay: Begin configuring and shipping customer software immediately.
Get to market faster: Reach revenue traction while keeping your runway intact.
Discuss pricing & cohort fit
Structured to preserve your early-stage seed capital.
Our Approach

We work with a small number of companies. Deliberately.

SeedStack isn’t an anonymous self-service platform. We work closely with a small portfolio of early-stage companies — around 20 companies at any one time — so we can understand what they’re building and help solve the difficult parts.

You work directly with the people building SeedStack. That means we can understand your product, adapt the platform where necessary and help solve problems that don’t fit neatly into a support ticket.

01

Direct access

Work directly with experienced founders who have built and scaled connected platforms, not a support queue.

02

Built around your product

We adapt the platform around your specific hardware, sensors and data requirements, rather than forcing you into a rigid generic template.

03

Aligned incentives

Our job is to help you reach market and build a successful company — not maximise your dependency on SeedStack.

The Team

Built by founders, for founders.

We’ve spent our careers building technology companies and products — from first prototypes and fundraising through to international growth and successful exits.

SeedStack brings that experience, and the infrastructure we’ve repeatedly needed along the way, to the next generation of connected-product founders.

Adam Theobald

Adam Theobald

Co-Founder

Technology entrepreneur with 15+ years’ experience founding and scaling software and connected-product businesses. Adam has built patented technology products, raised capital and founded and exited a video SaaS platform to Oracle.

Dr Jon Girven

Dr Jon Girven

Co-Founder & CTO

Technologist and entrepreneur with a PhD in astrophysics and extensive experience building software and technology products. Jon has taken technology businesses from early-stage development through to successful acquisition by Oracle.

Harry Theobald

Harry Theobald

Co-Founder & CPO

Multiple-time founder and product builder with experience taking new technology products from concept through development and commercialisation to successful exit.

Priya Shah

Priya Shah

Co-Founder

Entrepreneur and former co-founder of Sauce Video, acquired by Oracle in 2020. Priya has extensive experience building early-stage businesses and taking new technology and physical-product concepts to market.

Our Philosophy

We hope you outgrow us.

SeedStack is designed to get you from prototype to commercial product without locking you into your starting platform.

Stay with us. Integrate into something bigger. Bring the platform in-house. Get acquired.

Your success shouldn’t be constrained by the technology you started with.

Prototype
SeedStack
Market
Scale
Whatever comes next

Building something interesting?

Tell us what you’re working on.

Every application is personally reviewed by one of the founding team.