Could you tell us a bit about what Kiana Analytics does? Please give a brief description of your company.

Kiana Analytics is a fast-growing, GDPR compliant company with offices in Silicon Valley, and Germany. Corporate campuses, shopping centers, universities, factories, hospitals, and transportation hubs use Kiana’s patented device detection capabilities and real-time location services to strengthen presence analytics, physical safety, security, and to optimize their operations. Kiana leverages existing building WiFi infrastructure; no app, and no new sensors need to be installed. Kiana's COVID Exposure solution automates local and safety regulations and was recently highlighted in Gartner’s ”CIO Guide: How Location Services Can Help Mitigate COVID-19 Spread”. Kiana was the winner of the Telecom Council award, selected by Verizon 5G, and recently named the Top Innovator by Silicon Valley Plug and Play Ventures. 

Kiana Analytics is interested to identify new corporate customers, partners, and investors in Japan.

What sets you apart and makes you unique?

* Technology: Granted 6 US Patents and 2 provisional
* Product in daily use. 90 man-years of development
* 600M devices analyzed in 50 countries
* Team: working on AI and Big Data applications since 2001
* Team: working on AI and Big Data applications since 2001 * Channel: White-labeled by Thomson Reuters, Bell Canada, Rogers, HCL, Swisscom, and Fortinet

Could you tell us a bit about you and your team?

We are a group of serial entrepreneurs with expertise is in Big Data Analytics, Cloud, and AI. Our last company was bought by Siemens and investors made 8X return on investment. Kiana's headquarter is based in Silicon Valley with an engineering team outside Berlin Germany.

Why is the Japanese market important to you?

•Large economy and Committed to business partnerships
•Highly developed with modern infrastructure
- Intelligent Buildings
- Smart Cities
- Many Corporate Buildings, Shopping Centers, Exhibition Halls and Transportation Hubs
•When we succeed in Japan, we can succeed anywhere as it means we have developed a product or a service that has met the high expectations and quality of the Japanese market.

What are you looking for to make your next steps?

Our vision is to make "Turning Intelligent Facility Vision into a Reality" and become the category leader. We are executing to the plan and making our customers successful. We are also planning to raise our first institutional round of financing (Series A) in 2021.