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The Startup That Put a Screen on Your Chairlift - and a Business Behind It
A handful of Colorado skiers got tired of whiteboards and analog clocks on the mountain. Their fix - a self-charging screen on the chairlift - became a communication company with four products and one stubborn idea: communities run on information that arrives on time.
W-Locate Pte Ltd
W-Locate is a Singapore-based location technology company that blends machine-to-machine (M2M) telematics, big data, cloud computing and location intelligence. Its two flagship platforms - FIND (Fleet Intelligent Dynamics), a cloud fleet-management system, and XimLoc, a patent-pending SIM-based positioning technology that locates any SIM device indoors or outdoors without relying solely on GPS - serve enterprises, mobile operators and governments across Asia. Founded in 2010 by Stevie Ooi, the company has raised roughly US$2M+ from TNF Ventures and RHB-OSK, and works with partners such as Tata Communications to deliver location services for construction, logistics, waste management and smart-city use cases.
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.
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.
Placer.ai
Placer.ai is a location intelligence platform that turns anonymized mobile-device signals into foot-traffic, trade-area, and audience analytics for the physical world. Founded in 2018, it gives retailers, commercial real estate firms, brands, hospitality operators, and government agencies the same kind of click-level visibility that e-commerce takes for granted - but for stores, malls, restaurants, and Main Streets. The company crossed $100M ARR in 2024 and serves thousands of customers.