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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.
Philipp von Gilsa
Philipp von Gilsa is the CEO and co-founder of Kontakt.io, an indoor location and RTLS platform used by hospitals to track beds, staff, equipment and patient flow. Based in New York with engineering in Kraków, he has spent a decade turning small Bluetooth beacons into a spatial intelligence layer for smart buildings, most recently pushing the company into agentic AI for healthcare operations.
Grant Walter
Grant Walter is the Chairman, CEO and President of KoreLock, a Denver-based IoT technology company that sells turnkey embedded smart lock platforms to the lock and access-control industry. Rather than making locks or software, KoreLock builds the printed-circuit-board module, firmware and cloud that let any manufacturer ship a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connected lock. Its patent-protected, gateway-free Wi-Fi direct technology sits inside tens of thousands of locking devices across 65+ countries. In 2023 Walter was named a Security Industry Innovator for that WiFi-ready platform.
Pointr
Pointr is a global indoor location technology company whose Deep Location platform turns floor plans into live, navigable digital maps - the blue dot that works where GPS stops, indoors. Its AI mapping engine, positioning SDKs and analytics power wayfinding across more than 5,000 venues and 7 billion square feet of space, in hospitals, airports, malls, offices and convention centers for clients including Microsoft, Cisco, Siemens and Boston Logan.
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.