keyless-entry
(5)
Yale and August U.S.: The smart lock that let you keep the key
August put a motor on the inside of the door and left the familiar key outside. Paired with Yale, that small concession became a business in deciding who gets in, when, and how.
KeyMe Locksmiths
KeyMe Locksmiths is a New York-founded technology company that has rebuilt the roughly $12 billion locksmith trade around robotics and computer vision. Its self-service kiosks - more than 7,000 of them inside retailers like Kroger, Walmart, IKEA, Menards and Rite Aid - use trained neural networks to scan, store and duplicate house keys, car keys with transponders, and RFID fobs in minutes. Alongside the kiosks, KeyMe runs a nationwide dispatch network of professional locksmiths for lockouts, re-keying, lock installation and repair, plus a retail media network that turns its kiosk screens into advertising real estate. The company has raised roughly $200 million across eleven rounds since 2012.
CANDY HOUSE
CANDY HOUSE, Inc. is the consumer-hardware company behind Sesame, the retrofit smart lock that mounts over an existing deadbolt with adhesive tape and turns a smartphone, fingerprint, card, PIN or face into a key. Founded in 2014 by Stanford engineer Jerming Gu and famous for a 2015 Kickstarter that raised about $1.4M, the company built an open ecosystem around SesameOS - locks, touch and face readers, a coin-sized Matter hub, sensors and finger robots - aimed at making smart-home access affordable, rental-friendly and developer-open.
igloo (igloohome / igloocompany)
igloo (legally igloocompany Pte Ltd, known to consumers as igloohome) is a Singapore-founded smart access company building keyless, offline-capable smart locks, padlocks and keyboxes plus the cloud software to manage them at scale. Born out of two founders' frustration with handing over physical keys to Airbnb guests, the company's patented algoPIN/algoPass technology generates time-bound PIN codes and digital keys that work without WiFi at the lock. Today igloo serves both consumers and enterprises - through its iglooworks and iglooaccess platforms - across 80+ countries, syncing with Airbnb, Vrbo and hundreds of property-management systems.
KoreLock
KoreLock is a Denver-based IoT smart lock technology company that gives lock manufacturers and access control providers a turnkey, patented platform - embedded firmware, custom PCBAs, mobile and web apps, and cloud APIs - to turn ordinary offline locks into Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connected devices. Rather than competing with lock makers or software companies, KoreLock positions itself as the interoperability bridge between hardware and access control software, with technology already embedded in tens of thousands of devices across 65+ countries.