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Dor raises $8.5M

San Francisco, California-based foot traffic analytics company Dor has closed a Series A funding round of $8.5 million. Investors in the round include Vertex Ventures, Conductive Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Zetta, Bolt and Precursor Ventures.

Dor provides a battery-powered, thermal-sensing people counter, run on a cellular network.

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