APIS-US, Inc.
APIS provides high density networks of low-cost air pollution sensors to smart cities, industrial facilities, and regulatory agencies throughout the world.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Clean Technology
- Location Grants Pass, OR, US
- Currency USD
- Founded October 2015
- Employees 4
- Incorporation Type S-corp
- Website apis-aq.com
Company Summary
Apis is an air pollution and emissions monitoring company. We measure the health and safety of our environment by building, installing, and maintaining networks of small, affordable, air monitoring stations. We sell our data using a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) subscription based business model. Our customers are industrial facilities, regulatory agencies, concerned citizens, and city managers throughout the world.
Team
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President/CEO
Rob has worked in the air quality and environmental monitoring since 1998. He has executive management and startup experience. Rob also has extensive experience in business development, operations, product development, manufacturing, technical sales and marketing. Since 2006 Rob has worked in the industrial air quality market for Met One Instruments, a leading supplier of regulatory particulate monitors.
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Director of Engineering
Ken is a hands-on electronics engineer with three decades of broad commercial experience in the medical, aerospace, and telecom fields, designing circuits for production and research. For three years as a self-funded innovator, and now working with Apis, he has developed and is refining technology for breakthrough electrochemical gas sensor performance that is fundamental to Apis’ competitive advantage.
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Director of Marketing
Mike Meyer has worked for over 35 yrs in meteorological and aerosol physics research and instrumentation development. During the past 25 yrs he has been involved with business development and market strategy for leading manufacturers of air monitoring equipment. He has operations and executive experience in commercial and academic sectors. Mike holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from the University at Albany.
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Sales manager
Apis is Mr. Palumbo's 4th startup company. He has 25+ years of experience in subscription based and technical sales. Joe has worked in the air quality industry for 5 years. In Kern County California, Joe helped pioneer the DaaS business model for air monitoring by coordinating solar farm developers and the local air monitoring district to create the regions first subscription based monitoring program worth $1M over 5- years.
Advisors
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Matthew Bruff, Bruff Kentish, Ltd.UnconfirmedTim BusaldUnconfirmed
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Andres QuijanoUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Karen StaplesUnconfirmedSkip & Sandy BeckiusUnconfirmedTim MockUnconfirmed
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Kirk StopenhagenUnconfirmed
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