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Harry Lerner Built the Machines That Make the Line Disappear
For two decades, Harry Lerner has obsessed over a moment most people barely notice: the instant a ticket becomes an open door. His playbook is built on useful details, patient adaptation and hardware designed to disappear into the job.
How Janam Turned the Humble Barcode Scanner Into a Stadium Gate - Then Sold to HID
Janam spent years making unglamorous handhelds for warehouses and hospitals. Then digital tickets turned the same rugged scanner into a front door for stadiums - and made the small Long Island hardware company strategically useful to HID.
The Invisible Tech Company Behind the Beep, Scan and Tap
BlueStar rarely meets the shopper, nurse or warehouse worker who uses its technology. Its business is making sure the scanners, screens, printers and software behind those moments arrive as one workable system.
The $5.4 Billion Company Behind Every Beep
Zebra Technologies turned the humble barcode into a bridge between physical work and digital intelligence. Now its scanners, printers, sensors, software and screens are becoming the control layer for the frontline.
AlignOps
AlignOps is a Colorado-based construction operations software company that unifies tool and asset tracking, workforce time tracking, jobsite safety and compliance, and fleet/materials management into a single platform. Formed in 2024 by consolidating four established construction-tech brands - ToolWatch, busybusy, Safety Reports, and FleetWatcher - AlignOps helps thousands of contractors gain real-time visibility into where their tools, crews, equipment, and money are going across warehouses and jobsites.
Sortly
Sortly is a cloud-based, visual inventory and asset-tracking platform that lets businesses photograph, QR-code, and organize their stuff into searchable folders on any device. Built for the non-warehouse crowd - construction crews, medical offices, electricians, interior designers, schools, and retailers - it swaps clipboards and spreadsheets for a mobile app with barcode scanning, custom fields, low-stock alerts, and offline access. Founded in 2012 by Dhanush Balachandran and bootstrapped to profitability, Sortly now tracks millions of items for well over 15,000 paying businesses.
Anthony Gangemi
Anthony Gangemi is a Long Island barcode and data-capture executive whose career runs straight through the heart of the auto-ID industry. He started at Symbol Technologies, the company that put laser scanners in the hands of cashiers worldwide, then went on to co-found Dolphin Data Capture and found ScanSata, two firms that specialize in integrating Zebra Technologies OEM scan engines, RFID, and machine-vision hardware into other companies' products. He currently lists himself as President and CEO of Pogo. Across three-plus decades he has been the person OEMs call when they need a barcode reader to disappear inside a medical device, a kiosk, or a self-checkout lane.
Corvus Robotics
Corvus Robotics builds fully autonomous indoor drones that count warehouse inventory without human operators or any added infrastructure. Its flagship system, Corvus One, flies through aisles using an onboard AI world model - no GPS, Wi-Fi, fiducial markers, or beacons required - scanning barcodes and pallets to deliver near real-time inventory visibility at claimed 99.9% accuracy. Founded in 2017 out of MIT and backed by Spero Ventures and S2G Ventures, the company targets the slow, manual, error-prone problem of physical inventory counts in distribution centers and production plants.