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AMAG Technology: The door is only half the story
AMAG sells the machinery that decides who gets in. Its more interesting business is helping organizations change their security without throwing away the buildings, badges and systems they already have.
Navigate360 and the hidden work of keeping a school safe
A hall pass, a behavior reward and a panic button seem to belong to different worlds. Navigate360 is betting that school safety improves when those worlds start talking.
Envera puts the guard everywhere but the gatehouse
A gated community can buy a barrier, a camera or a person to answer the call. Envera bundles all three - then moves the person off-site.
CENTEGIX and the distance between help and here
A wearable button can summon help without sending a teacher away from a child. CENTEGIX built a safety platform around that small advantage - and the complicated work of making it reliable.
The Door Was Never the Hard Part
Spintly put the credential on a phone and the network between doors. The larger bet is that a building should be easier to change after it opens.
Quantum Secure and the Door That Forgot Who You Were
Quantum Secure found the awkward gap between the employee database and the locked door. Its answer became HID SAFE - and, one acquisition and a proposed transfer later, the little San Jose company still governs who gets in, where, and for how long.
Kamal Mahyuddin Kept Choosing the Work Before It Looked Important
Before workplace software became a category, a Malaysian Rubyist arrived at Envoy as its second engineering hire. The quiet thread through his career is a taste for useful infrastructure - the kind people notice only after it works.
The Office Is Now a Variable Cost
Gable began with a peculiar question: what if an office behaved less like a headquarters and more like cloud computing? Pay for what people use, see the demand in real time, and stop pretending every empty desk is a strategy.
Nine Workplace Apps Walked Into a Merger. Eptura Wants to Run the Building.
Eptura stitched nine aging-but-useful workplace systems into one worktech platform. The bet is simple: a desk booking, a visitor badge and a broken chiller become more valuable when they live in the same data story.
Appspace Put the Office on One Dashboard - Now It Has to Prove One Platform Beats the Pile
Appspace spent two decades turning office screens into a business. Then hybrid work blew up the definition of an office - and pushed the company into a bigger, riskier bet: one operating layer for every workplace surface.
Brivo Put the Office Key in the Cloud - Then Spent 25 Years Teaching Security People to Trust It
Brivo started with a parcel box, pivoted to doors, and made a subscription business out of the least glamorous hardware in a building. Its latest act combines access control and AI video under one roof - with a playbook worth stealing and a few catches worth reading first.
BluB0X Put the Security Desk in the Cloud - Now It Wants AI to Run the Building
The Andover company rebuilt doors, cameras, turnstiles and elevators as one cloud service. Its bet is that the winning security system will own less hardware, share more context and tell operators what happened before they ask.
Munily App
Munily is a Panama-based proptech company building an access-control and community-management platform for gated communities across Latin America. It replaces broken intercoms and paper visitor logs with an app-and-tablet system that connects security guards, residents, and property administrators - guards photograph a visitor's ID and pick the apartment, and residents approve or deny entry from their phones. A Y Combinator W22 company, Munily has expanded into billing automation, live amenity reservations, and AI-assisted access (license-plate and facial recognition).
Kadence
Kadence is a workplace operations ("WorkOps") software platform that helps enterprises coordinate people, time and space across hybrid and distributed teams. Born from the pandemic-era pivot of wireless-charging startup Chargifi, the San Francisco- and London-based company unifies desk and room booking, visitor management, team scheduling, occupancy analytics and AI-powered coordination into one platform. Kadence is used by more than 10,000 teams across 40+ countries, including Boeing, Ashurst and BDO, and raised a $20M Series A in 2025 led by High Alpha.
Robin
Robin is a Boston-based workplace management platform that helps companies run hybrid offices - booking desks and meeting rooms, mapping floor plans, managing visitors, and measuring how space actually gets used. Founded in 2014 by brothers Sam and Zach Dunn with Brian Muse, Robin now serves thousands of organizations worldwide, including HubSpot, Peloton, Riot Games and UNICEF, and has layered AI agents on top of the office to automate the busywork of getting people and rooms in the same place.
Athena Security Inc.
Athena Security is an Austin-based physical-security company that builds AI-powered concealed weapons detection and visitor management systems for schools, hospitals, casinos, businesses and public venues. Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneurs Lisa Falzone and Chris Ciabarra (the pair behind iPad point-of-sale pioneer Revel Systems), Athena combines walk-through metal detection, thermal imaging, lidar, cameras and machine learning to screen roughly one person per second - up to 3,600 people an hour - without asking anyone to empty their pockets or bags. Its flagship Apollo 500 system uses colored light boxes to show operators exactly where a suspected weapon is on the body, and its screening-compliance software helps organizations meet a growing patchwork of state security laws.
Alert Enterprise
Alert Enterprise is a Fremont, California-based software company that converges cyber security, physical security and identity management on a single SaaS platform. Its Guardian suite — now extended with AI agents on ServiceNow — automates who gets through which door, server, and substation across airports, utilities, banks, hospitals and Fortune 500 workplaces.
Envoy
Envoy is a workplace platform that helps over 16,000 organizations run smarter offices - from front-desk visitor sign-in and package deliveries to desk booking, meeting rooms, and workplace analytics. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by ex-Twitter engineer Larry Gadea, Envoy became a unicorn in 2022 after a $111M Series C.
Larry Gadea
Larry Gadea is the founder and CEO of Envoy, the San Francisco-based workplace platform that turned the humble office sign-in book into a $1.4 billion unicorn. A Romanian refugee who was recruited by Google at 17, created Twitter's 'Murder' infrastructure tool as one of its first 50 employees, and spotted a market gap nobody else noticed: enterprise software had completely ignored the physical office. From smuggled out of communist Romania to building the software that runs 14,000+ workplaces in 70 countries, Gadea's story is one of relentless pattern recognition, resilience, and the stubborn conviction that the office deserves the same engineering love as everything else in tech.