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Kontakt.io Beyond Beacons

We’ve been innovators since day one.

Kontakt.io was founded in 2013 with the goal of helping the visually impaired navigate public spaces more easily and engage with the world like anyone else.

Today, with more than 15,000 customers in over 120 countries, Kontakt.io is the world’s number one beacon provider (ABI Research). We connect the online and offline worlds for small, medium and enterprise businesses of any kind, and help them start their IoT journey with our Beacon Infrastructure - Hardware, Software, Services & Expertise.

The best in beacons is yet to come and we aim to be a crucial part of it.

Contents

Intro to Beacons & loT - Connected Reality

The Kontakt.io Vision - The Pillars of Beacon Infrastracture

Use Cases - Projects We Love

Leadership - Who Makes Us Tick

Kontakt.io's History - The Past is Prologue

Beacons for Good - Beyond Profit

Thought Leadership

Let’s talk about Beacons & Beyond!

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Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (“IoT” for short) is a term for a variety of technologies that describe a number of different ways to connect physical things to the internet. Proximity is among the most prominent of those technologies. As a result, any item can become smart and context-aware, provide highly personalized experiences and gather extensive data about what’s

happening in the real world.

Proximity

Proximity makes objects and devices context-aware, so they can provide highly personalized experiences. By adding another layer of contextual information to IoT-enabled objects, you empower them to serve you and your needs at the right place

and the right time.

Beacons

A beacon is a small Bluetooth radio transmitter. It’s like a lighthouse- it repeatedly transmits a single signal that other devices can see.

Intro to Beacons & IoT

Depending on how close both devices are, a smartphone can perform different actions. It can update an indoor map with your location, open a lock,or even change the music in your house as you walk from room to room. Companies and brands around the world love beacons because they open up completely new ways to reach out to customers, engage them and drive sales. So do we.

The signal is detected by nearby smart devices via Bluetooth Smart™.

A Beacon is a small, wireless device which transmitsa continuous radio signal.

The signal tells your smart device “I’m Here” by giving its ID number.

Your smart device thensends that ID number to the cloud server.

The server checks what Action is assigned to that ID number & responds.

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Over the last couple of years Kontakt.io has developed a couple of different types of beacon hardware as well as the world’s most secure software. Today we provide our customers with full support from the

The Kontakt.io Vision

Meet the Pillars of Beacon Infrastructure:

Hardware We manufacture smart hardware—beacons and other devices that allow our clinets to build their infrastructure at any scale.

Software

Thanks to our software stack, our customers can develop their solutions in a fast, easy, and secure manner and then manage and monitor their infrastructure with our ready-to-use tools.

Services

We handle hardware installation and maintenance for customers globally so they can focus on the things that matter to them most.

Expertise

Nobody knows hardware, software and solutions better than we do. We share this knowledge with customers by showcasing beacon solutions and our best-in-class customer service.

Carrefour gains 600% more app users by enabling proximity

After two years of using mobile apps, Carrefour, the $20B+ multinational retailer, enriched one of them with proximity. Beacons deployed at the store welcomed shoppers as they entered, displayed coupons and suggested products based on customer purchase histories. After seven months,

Use Cases

earliest decision-making stages, through providing hardware and software tools and all the way up to offering deployment and maintenance services.

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Carrefour observed that the number of app downloads increased by 600% and that users spent 400% more time in the app.

Volkswagen drives customers to purchase Auto Ganza, an official Volkswagen dealer in Moscow, deployed beacons at its showroom to help its visitors freely explore cars and their capabilities. Now, when a prospect approaches a model, a dedicated beacon-enabled app, developed by iBecom, triggers information about its cost, technical specifications and available colors. If customers, want to know more, they can schedule a test drive—right

from the app.

FC Porto App Gets The Beacon Rolling! FC Porto, one of the most famous football teams in Europe, has deployed beacons to help achieve its e nterprising goal- to become the most technologically advanced football club in the world. At first glance football and beacons might seem unlikely comrades but when we heard that their mobile app achieved an astonishing 150,000 downloads in the first few months, we couldn’t wait to find

out more.

Mobile

World Congress boosts its app

engagement 235%

People attending Mobile World Congress 2015 could enjoy a

conference app enriched with proximity by MOCA. Beacons enabled seamless ticketing and mobile check-ins at main entrances, proximity-aware notifications about exhibitors and information at transportation point as users left the venue. As a result, 47% of mobile users interacted with the app at the venue.

The Philadelphia Museum of Arts connects families and works of art

Every summer, the Philadelphia Museum of Arts organizes Art Splash, a special program of events and activities dedicated to families. In 2015, the museum launched a beacon-enabled “A is for Art Museum” app to help visitors explore its exhibitions in an entertaining and child-friendly way. The app, installed on museum’s iPads, challenged families to find twenty-six works of art throughout the museum matched with the letters of the alphabet. Beacons provide a way-finding tool and trigger content at these exhibits, such as additional information, audio, video and real-world games to play with the whole family.

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Szymon Niemczura

Co-founder and CEO

Szymon co-founded Kontaki.io and is its CEO. It has grown into one of the world’s leading smart hardware providers. As an enthusiastic advocate of the Internet of Things, he drives the company to be among the leaders of the upcoming connected future. He is a graduate of Business & Financial Management from National Louis University.

Tomasz Kołek

Co-founder and COO

Tomasz manages the company’s day-to-day operations. He monitors the process of delivering products and creates operational strategy. A graduate of Management from the Cracow University

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of Economics, he worked in the banking industry for much of his career, where he was gaining new customers, selling products and assessing financial risks for brands such as Alior Bank and Invest Bank.

Łukasz Wierzbicki

Head of Engineering

Łukasz plans and directs all aspects of engineering activities within the Kontakt.io team. He is responsible for the technical supervision of the development, production and operation of all beacon-based engineering projects ensuring that Kontakt.io gives customers the fastest way to develop, deploy and scale up their proximity solutions.

Łukasz has over 10 years of experience in working with software development for global brands including Motorola, Sabre and Alior Bank.

Philipp von Gilsa

Head of Growth

Philipp oversees the growth of one of the most innovative IoT startups on the market - Kontakt.io. Equally dedicated to data driven decisions and hands-on execution, he is responsible for managing and developing all global market operations.

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His main focus is to help the company thrive by understanding and increasing business in existing markets and drive new opportunities in emerging ones.

Philipp joined Kontakt.io in 2015 to lead the global Sales and Business Development Team with offices in Berlin, London, Hong Kong, New York and Guadalajara. Previously, he worked as a Country Manager for Rocket Internet in Paris and in Analyst positions at J.P. Morgan and various consulting companies. He holds a bachelor degree in Business Administration and Sociology from Zeppelin University in Germany and two Master’s degrees in Public Administration and History from the London School of Economics and Beijing University.

Filip Karwala Head of Sales

Filip joined Kontakt.io in 2014 to provide leadership, increase growth and expand both Sales and Marketing operations in new territories. Building on a predictable revenue approach, he is actively involved in relationships with key clients as well as leading marketing campaigns to increase global awareness about beacon technology and the Kontakt.io brand.

Since Filip works with innovative products like beacons, a part of his job is educating the

market about how business and our public space can benefit from Internet of Things technologies. As a longtime member of startup communities, he brings that spirit to every environment he works in along with the cross cultural sensitivity. As an MBA graduate, he completed his education in Spain, the US and Mexico. He gained international previous experience working at Oracle in Mexico, the US and Dubai as well as at Spanish startup Openbravo.

Dr Max NiederhoferBoard Member

Max is a partner at Sunstone Capital, focusing on internet and mobile investments. He joined Sunstone from Accel Partners, where he was a Vice President in the firm’s London office. Previously, Max started and sold Qwerly, a data marketing business, and was a Principal at Atlas Venture, where he worked with companies such as DailyMotion, Seatwave and Moo. His personal investments include Last.fm (sold to CBS), OneFineStay, Skimlinks, Boticca, Fliptop and Sofar Sounds.Max holds a PhD in management science from WHU in Germany.

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Jan HabermannBoard Member

Jan is an investor and a partner of Czech Credo Ventures. Before his engagement in venture capital he co-founded and operated several companies. In 2003 a software development company he started and managed, Acron Communications, was acquired by a strategic investor and Jan became fascinated by M&A transactions and private equity investments. Since then he has completed several M&A projects as an advisor representing both buyers and sellers. He has also completed several venture capital investments working as an Investment Director at MCI Management. Jan graduated from the University of Economics in Prague where he specialized in financial management, accounting and business combinations.

We started our beacon adventure all the way back in 2013. We developed something that is now called a proximity solution—but it was months before Apple released the iBeacon profile using Bluetooth Low Energy. That’s how our innovation began. Since then we’ve adopted

Kontakt.io’s History

March 2013

The beginning

Szymon Niemczura, Rafał Janicki, Tomasz Kołek, and Tomasz Koźmiński are working out the way to help the visually impaired enjoy museum tours. Having discovered their solution’s potential, they set up a company to provide the technology to others. Kontakt.io arises.

technology like iBeacon, Eddystone and more into our smart hardware system and we continue to push the borders of what’s possible with bluetooth proximity devices. Take a look at the most important dates in our history!

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June 2013

Bluetooth 4.0 and iBeacon join the game

iBeacon profile solves a lot of the pain points in our home-built solution, so we reverse-engineer the format and get it running on our hardware. Soon after, we launch a pre-order of development kits, becoming a part of emerging beacosystem. August 2013

First beacons shipping

We ship the first run of pre-ordered beacons to our clients. Initially held together with glue and good intentions, we quickly develop a better system and replace all old devices in the field.

July 2014

$2 million funding

We closes an investment round with Sunstone Capital, a top European venture capital firm. Being backed up by a partner who shares our limitless ambition, we’re ready to conquer the world. We ship thousands of customized beacons worldwide with the shortest lead times in the industry.

August 2014

Cloud Beacon premiere

We see the future of Internet of Things tied strongly to the cloud. To make that happen, we introduce pre-orders for Cloud Beacon. By providing security and monitoring features without an application installed in a smart device, it takes proximity to the next level.

February 2015

Outdoor awaits!

We introduce the Tough Beacon, a new piece of hardware designed for outdoor and demanding conditions.

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July 2015

Eddystone roll-out

Google launches Eddystone, an iBeacon’s competitor and we’re one of the very few companies that is involved in the project from the beginning. A few days later, we start shipping the first beacons with Eddystone support.

August 2016

Introducing the Pillars of Beacon Infrastracture

March 2015

Kontakt.io, Inc. launches

We become an American company! With offices in San Francisco and New York, we continue plans to dominate the US with quality proximity smart hardware.

February 2016

A brand new image

We announce a $5 million USD Series B round led by Credo Ventures and rebrand the company. With a new logo and a new website that perfectly reflects what Kontakt.io is, we pave the way for more products, more innovation, and more greatness to come.

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Kontakt.io was originally founded to help the visually impaired easily navigate public spaces and experience the world in a better way.

Beacons for Good

While Kontakt.io has changed a lot since that time, our belief that IoT can solve real-world problems hasn’t. That initial goal - to make the world a better place - still lies at the core of the company and drives our efforts at Beacons For Good (BeaconsForGood.org).

Beacons for Good is our non-profit initiative designed to help charities

roll out their own proximity-based projects to help people in need. Every month Kontakt.io donates free beacons to charities that have great ideas and a great plan to make a difference with beacons.

Discover more at BeaconsForGood.org

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We’re huge IoT evangelists, so if you’re looking for tech experts, the best beacon use cases, speakers for your event or interviewees for your publication, you can count on Kontakt.io for fresh insights, powered by experience, enthusiasm and Bluetooth Low Energy.

Thought Leadership

This is a global series of events all about the Internet of Things and Beacons, providing participants with hands-on experience with beacon technology, deployments, usage and the market organized on regular basis around the world. BeaconValley is a networking and business opportunity for entrepreneurs and startups

deeply interested in the Internet of Things, developers working with beacon technology and technological and marketing media looking for inspiration. We share practical knowledge about our smart IoT hardware, bringing technology closer to people in our showrooms and building communities of businesses, developers, and media around IoT.

BeaconValley Conference & Hackathon by Kontakt.io

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Joanna BuciorPR Manager

j.bucior@kontakt.iomobile: +48 796 600 543