location-analytics
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Radar
Radar is a New York-based location platform that gives developers and enterprises a cost-effective alternative to Google Maps Platform and Mapbox. Its SDKs and APIs cover geofencing, maps, geocoding, trip tracking, and address autocomplete, plus solutions for location-based marketing, fraud and geo-compliance, and operations. Founded in 2016 by former Foursquare colleagues Nick Patrick and Coby Berman, Radar powers location features for brands like Panera Bread, DICK'S Sporting Goods, T-Mobile, and bet365, processing hundreds of billions of API calls a year across hundreds of millions of devices.
Foursquare
Foursquare is a geospatial technology company that turns the physical world into structured, privacy-minded location data. Once known for the check-in app that helped popularize mobile location sharing, the company reinvented itself as an independent location-intelligence platform. Its products - Places, Movement SDK, Studio, and the Graph - supply a database of 120+ million points of interest and movement signals that power maps, marketing, analytics, and app features for companies including Apple, Uber, Snapchat, and Spotify.
Thaddeus Fulford-Jones
Thaddeus Fulford-Jones is the London-born, MIT-trained engineer who co-founded and leads Radial (formerly Radial Analytics), a Concord, Massachusetts healthtech company that uses AI to guide clinicians through the high-stakes 'crossroads moments' of patient care - especially deciding where a patient should go after leaving the hospital. A serial founder, he earlier built and sold Locately, a pioneering GPS shopper-analytics firm acquired in 2012, before turning his fascination with behavioral 'nudge theory' and large-scale data toward value-based care. Radial's platform has analyzed data from 18 million patients and 82 million encounters to help more people recover safely at home.
Polaris Wireless
Polaris Wireless is a Silicon Valley company that pinpoints where a mobile phone is - not just on a map, but on which floor of a building. Founded in 1999, it pioneered software-based Wireless Location Signatures (WLS) and high-accuracy 3D / z-axis location, technology used by wireless carriers and public safety agencies so that when someone dials 911 from the 30th floor, responders know which floor. With 90+ patents and 50+ deployments worldwide, Polaris turns radio noise into vertical certainty for E911, IoT, smart cities and enterprise applications.
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.
Gary Little
Gary Little is President and CEO of Foursquare, the world's leading independent location technology platform. A rare operator-investor hybrid, he spent six years running internet monetization at Yahoo, then pivoted into investment banking at Credit Suisse, Lazard, and UBS before co-founding Buckthorn Partners and rising to Managing Director at The Raine Group. At Raine he led the $150M Foursquare investment and negotiated the company's transformative acquisitions of Placed and Factual - then stepped into the CEO seat himself in January 2021. Under his leadership, Foursquare has evolved from a nostalgic social check-in app into the dominant infrastructure layer for location intelligence, covering 190 countries, indexing over 200 million points of interest, and powering the geospatial stacks of enterprises across retail, advertising, real estate, and urban planning.