About InnerSpace
In this space, optimize your two most valuable resources: people and property
We spend the majority of our lives - work, rest, and play - indoors.
Our indoor experiences are a defining element of our culture.
But the indoors is a finite resource. To make the most of our indoor spaces, we must adapt them to the ever-changing ways people use them.
This requires the science to deeply understand our behavior indoors.
Thing is, measuring indoor behavior was very difficult to do… until now.
In the past 10 years, indoor positioning analytics companies have emerged to tackle the challenge of measuring and understanding how we use our indoor environments. There are companies tapping cell towers, using Bluetooth and beacons, and analyzing Wi-Fi signals — all trying to generate data accurate enough to be useful.
Whereas Google Maps and Waze are similar in terms of GPS accuracy, indoor location intelligence capabilities vary widely. Usually, the choice is a tradeoff: some technologies can scale quickly but deliver largely inaccurate information; others depend on a dense blanket of sensors to deliver better accuracy but incur massive implementation and management costs.
InnerSpace is changing how people experience the indoors
Our technology makes reliable and insightful data about our behavior indoors easily accessible to those seeking to implement solutions that improve our indoor experiences.
We use existing WiFi infrastructure to analyze anonymous signals from mobile devices and translate them into actionable and easy-to-understand insights about how and where we spend our time indoors.
It's the science of indoor space. InnerSpace technology makes Indoorology accessible to all.
Founded in 2014
how InnerSpace found its space
From a wayfinding solution to something vastly bigger
InnerSpace was inspired by a trip to the Met in New York.
CEO and co-founder, James Wu recalls being handed a paper map to navigate the space on his own. It provided no additional information. No guidance on the best times to go to avoid crowds, or the best pathways to get from one exhibit to another. But... all of that information was available using multiple apps for the rest of his New York trip, outdoors.
We started InnerSpace with to solve the pain of navigating through the built environment.
We wondered why so many location-based services and solutions were available for the outdoors - yet so few for the indoors?
There seemed to us an enormous possibility for businesses to create better services and solutions for employees and consumers — for radically changing how we experience the indoors in much the same way as GPS has changed how we experience the outdoors.
Today, InnerSpace is venture-backed by investors such as BDC, 500 Startups, MaRS Discovery District, Creative Destruction Lab and more. And our clients are some of the largest, most forward-thinking companies in the world.
Accelerated in part by the pandemic's impact on workplaces, InnerSpace clients are turning guesswork into data-driven decisions driving return-to-work plans, hybrid transformation strategies and to rationalize and optimize their real estate portfolios in this new world of work.
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Working at InnerSpace
We're a fun-loving crew of nerdy experts with affable ambition. We also love cats. We don't believe in the start-up rhetoric of failing fast, working to obliteration, or misspending our time/resources, instead, InnerSpace is committed to growing a collaborative, creative and hard-working company where ideas are valued, where everyone is heard, and where we can do our best work (with a furry friend or scaley by our side).
If you’re interested in working at InnerSpace visit our careers page.
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