First it was Espace Networks. Then it was Neuron. Now the company is Quvia. But the network monitoring and management company promises the core products remain the same.
Speaking to the change in a LinkedIn video, CEO Benny Rentamony described the change as “a more distinct name that represents our focus on bringing quality of experience to the forefront of connectivity orchestration.”
In the press release announcing the change the company also concedes “widespread use of the word ‘neuron’ in various industries, including health, science and tech, has made it difficult to establish a distinct brand.” As a result, Quvia was chosen as a “unique name that reflects our commitment to innovation, agility, and our mission to bring quality of experience to the forefront of connectivity and digital orchestration.”
Maybe it matters that the name cannot be easily searched online. Maybe not. Quvia still has a bit of work to do on that front, though arguably displacing a rental management app and a misspelling of a clinical research services company should be easier than overtaking the much broader world of neurons.
The company also offered up some statistics on its growth in recent years. This includes deployment on more than 2,000 commercial aircraft, monitoring more than a million flights each month. That’s an impressive number of planes, far exceeding the deal with Delta Air Lines announced last May. Alas, no details on which other airlines are using the service. It does, however, appear that Quvia’s Pulse solution is not suffering too much from competition from SAA’s Viper platform.
I’ve oft joked about changing the name of this website to PaxEx.ai and launching a funding round. After all, anything “AI” seems to demand 10x valuation compared to whatever it was previously named. That does not appear to be the motivation of the Neuron->Quvia shift, though the company remains all-in on generative AI and machine learning for its platforms. And it did switch to using the .ai domain suffix, though quvia.com has been taken for more than 15 years now.
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