# Ege Akpinar

> Ege Akpinar is the founder and CEO of Pointr, the indoor location company behind Deep Location, a platform that gives buildings the kind of accurate blue-dot navigation people take for granted outdoors. He started it in 2013 as a Harrods consulting side project, turned it into a venue-mapping engine used by Fortune 100 companies, hospitals, airports and CES, and built an AI mapping system that compresses days of manual map-drawing into minutes.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Pointr
- **Organizations:** Pointr
- **From:** Turkey
- **Nationality:** Turkish
- **Education:** BS, Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Exchange student, Computer Engineering and Music, Boston University, Special student, Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MRes, Advanced Computing, Imperial College London
- **Known for:** Built Pointr into a market leader in indoor location, serving 14 Fortune 100 companies., Created Deep Location, combining BLE beacons, WiFi, sensor fusion and machine learning for 1-3 meter indoor accuracy., Developed an AI mapping engine that turns days of manual venue map creation into minutes.

## Career timeline

- **Pre-2013** — Worked as a software and digital strategy consultant in London for clients including Tesco and Harrods; held research experience tied to MIT and Harvard Medical School.
- **2013** — Founded the company as 'Indoorz' in November after Harrods asked for indoor GPS to power a mobile store guide.
- **2014** — Joined by co-founders Axel Katalan, Chris Charles and Can Akpinar; company rebranded to Pointr in November after a client asked whether it worked outdoors too.
- **2015** — Raised angel funding, joined the Microsoft Ventures accelerator in London and was supported by Level39 in Canary Wharf.
- **2020** — Closed a Series B funding round as Pointr scaled its Deep Location platform.
- **2025** — Partnered with Eventbase to power AI-driven wayfinding across 14 venues at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, including the 7M sq ft Las Vegas Convention Center.

## Achievements

- Built Pointr into a market leader in indoor location, serving 14 Fortune 100 companies.
- Created Deep Location, combining BLE beacons, WiFi, sensor fusion and machine learning for 1-3 meter indoor accuracy.
- Developed an AI mapping engine that turns days of manual venue map creation into minutes.
- Won Mobile Innovation of the Year with Gatwick Airport and a Drapers Digital Award with Harrods.
- Nominated by TechCrunch as one of Europe's hottest IoT companies.
- Delivered what Pointr calls the largest indoor location and wayfinding experience ever built for an event at CES 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Pointr and Eventbase powered AI-driven indoor navigation across CES 2025's 14 venues, mapping 4,500+ exhibitors across millions of square feet.

## Links

- Website: https://pointr.tech
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/egeakpinar/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pointrlabs
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pointr.co

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Last updated: 2026-06-04