# Kontakt.io

> Kontakt.io is an AI-powered real-time location system (RTLS) and care-operations platform for hospitals. Starting in 2013 as a Krakow Bluetooth-beacon maker, it now combines IoT sensors, wearable tags and cloud AI to track the location, status and flow of patients, staff and equipment across health systems - helping hospitals cut wasted time, find assets, protect staff and orchestrate care around each patient's journey. It has deployed 4M+ IoT devices, serves 32,000+ end users, and raised a $47.5M Series C led by Goldman Sachs in 2024.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Philipp von Gilsa (CEO & Co-Founder), Szymon Niemczura (Co-Founder (former CEO)), Rafal Janicki (Co-Founder), Tomasz Kozminski (Co-Founder), Tomasz Kolek (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~100-140 employees
- **Products:** Care Operations Platform (RTLS), Portal Beam, Smart Badge, Asset Tag 2, AI Agents
- **Notable:** Deployed 4M+ IoT devices in the field since 2013, Serves 32,000+ end users across healthcare and other verticals, Works with 1,200+ delivery partners

## Products & services

- **Care Operations Platform (RTLS)** — Cloud-based, AI-powered real-time location platform with open architecture and fully managed IoT infrastructure, letting health systems consolidate legacy RTLS and point solutions into one system.
- **Portal Beam** — Ceiling-mounted, cloud-enabled BLE sensor platform with up to nine sensors (thermal imaging, temperature, humidity, air quality, light, smoke, infrared beaconing, RSSI fingerprinting, iBeacon) that quantifies rooms and occupancy without a camera feed.
- **Smart Badge** — Ultra-thin wearable for clinical staff providing real-time location, staff-duress/safety alerting and hands-free workflow, designed to be comfortable enough for daily use.
- **Asset Tag 2** — Lightweight BLE tag rated for up to eight years with two smart buttons, providing room-level accuracy for tracking and managing medical equipment and supplies.
- **AI Agents** — AI applications including Patient Flow Agent, Supply Chain Agent, Access Agent, Patient Journey Analytics and the Curiosity Engine that turn real-time location data into operational decisions.
- **IoT Device Management & Data Lakehouse** — Fleet management for millions of deployed devices plus a data lakehouse and indoor journey analytics that centralize spatial data for reporting and ML.

## Achievements

- Deployed 4M+ IoT devices in the field since 2013
- Serves 32,000+ end users across healthcare and other verticals
- Works with 1,200+ delivery partners
- Raised $47.5M Series C led by Goldman Sachs in April 2024
- Evolved from a retail-beacon startup into a leading healthcare RTLS/care-operations platform
- Customers include some of the largest US and UK health systems (HCA, VA, Trinity Health, NHS)

## Latest updates

- **2024-04** — Raised $47.5M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management to fund AI development and expansion into US hospitals; Christian Resch joined the board.
- **2023** — Launched the cloud-enabled Portal Beam sensor platform and Smart Badge, deepening its push into privacy-first occupancy sensing and staff safety.
- **2024** — Expanded its AI application layer (Patient Flow Agent, Supply Chain Agent, Access Agent, Patient Journey Analytics) on top of its RTLS platform.

## Links

- Website: https://kontakt.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kontakt-io
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/kontakt_io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Kontaktio
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/kontakt.io

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Last updated: 2026-07-20