A Denver startup is adding an investment from Amazon to the $3.4 million it raised in 2014 to improve and market a device that makes watering the lawn more efficient.
Rachio, a 3-year-old company that sells a smartphone-integrated system for controlling residential lawn sprinklers, received an undisclosed amount of funding from Amazon to integrate its product into Amazon’s voice command technology Amazon Echo, also called Alexa.
Amazon announced that Rachio would receive the funding in an Aug. 27 press release.
“The funding gives us better access to create skills for Alexa,” Rachio spokesman Ben Blackmer said. “So for example, you could say, ‘Alexa, water the garden for 10 minutes,’ and through our integration, we could make that happen.”
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