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Connexient found a business in the wrong corridor
Hospitals can guide a surgeon through an operation and still leave a visitor hunting for the lift. Connexient built a business around that awkward gap - then made the map useful to the whole enterprise.
Ariadne
Ariadne is a Munich-based, privacy-first physical-world analytics company that measures how people move through real spaces - shops, malls, train stations and airports - without cameras or facial recognition. Its patented Hybrid Fusion technology pairs anonymous phone-signal sensing with Time-of-Flight depth sensing to deliver up to 99% accurate people counting and sub-meter flow analytics, all GDPR-native and EU AI Act ready. Founded by two Greek engineers who met at the Technical University of Munich, Ariadne has installed more than 1,000 sensors across 800+ locations in 32+ countries, serving customers like San Diego International Airport, IKEA, MediaMarkt and Deutsche Bahn.
Georgios Pipelidis
Georgios Pipelidis is the co-founder and CEO of Ariadne, a Munich-born company that turns the anonymous radio signals leaking from smartphones into privacy-first analytics about how people move through airports, stores and stations - no cameras, no apps, no network connection required. A computer scientist with a PhD in artificial intelligence from the Technical University of Munich, he turned an academic project on indoor positioning - one that beat Google, IBM, Samsung, Cisco and Sony at a 2018 global competition - into a company operating sensors in hundreds of locations worldwide, backed by a $7M Series A.
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.