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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.
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.