Reached by phone, Ozzie confirmed that the startup has raised money from undisclosed investors, as revealed in an SEC filing March 26.

Blues is the newest project from Ozzie, who invented the Lotus Notes group messaging platform in the 1980s.

Ozzie has since launched and sold two startups to Microsoft: Groove Networks in 2005, and Talko in 2015.

That’s when he began putting together concepts for a cellular IoT device that could be embedded into almost any hardware and seamlessly connect to the internet without relying on WiFi.

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