Byond

What Byond does

Byond is a Brazilian private IoT solutions company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. The company designs and delivers custom IoT ecosystems for Industry 4.0, targeting industrial enterprises across logistics, steel, mining, and agriculture sectors in Brazil. Its offering is built around four flagship products: Rastreabilidade de Embalagens (end-to-end packaging traceability via RFID dock-door readers), Inventário Automático (RFID-based automatic daily inventory), Localizador de Pessoas (IoT personnel tracking for workplace safety), and Monitor de Posição de Ponte Rolante (overhead crane position monitoring). These solutions are integrated through an API into customers' existing ERP/WMS systems, and the company also supplies the underlying proprietary hardware — RFID readers, tags, wearables, and crane sensors — as part of each deployment.

Byond operates on a project-based, sales-led B2B motion with custom quote-based pricing (no published tiers). Revenue is generated through three streams: custom IoT project implementation (professional services), proprietary hardware supply, and ongoing managed services for daily inventory and real-time visibility. Named enterprise customers include Tegma (logistics), Arcelor (steel), SLC Agrícola (agriculture), Magnesita (refractories/mining-adjacent), and Anglo American (mining). The company is small — 1–10 employees — and has disclosed only $50,000 of cumulative outside funding across two early-stage rounds (LatAm Startups in 2017, Right Side Capital Management in 2021).

In October 2025, a related entity called BYOND Asia signed an MoU with Alibaba Cloud at GITEX Global 2025 to leverage Alibaba's newly launched second Dubai data center for AI and cloud services targeting Middle East industrial customers, signaling the first known international expansion beyond Brazil. The Brazilian Byond entity and BYOND Asia appear to be distinct organizations operating in different geographies and domains, so this partnership represents a new regional channel rather than a direct continuation of Byond's core Florianópolis operations.

Name

Byond

Legal name

Byond

Website

https://getbyond.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Byond is a Florianópolis-based private IoT solutions company founded in 2015 that delivers custom Industry 4.0 traceability ecosystems — combining RFID readers, people-locator wearables, crane position sensors, and ERP/WMS integration APIs — to Brazilian industrial enterprises in logistics, steel, mining, and agriculture.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Florianópolis

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Custom IoT Project Implementation: Project-based revenue from delivering custom IoT traceability ecosystems (RFID hardware + software + integration) tailored to each industrial client's operations, as evidenced by the portfolio of concluded projects and the 'Orçamento' (quote-based) sales flow.
2. IoT Hardware & Devices Supply: Supply of proprietary IoT hardware including RFID dock-door readers, RFID tags, people-locator wearables, and crane-position sensors as part of delivered solutions.
3. Managed IoT Service / Operations: Ongoing operational monitoring, automatic daily inventory, and real-time visibility services delivered as part of the IoT ecosystem offering.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Byond is a Brazilian IoT solutions company that designs, deploys, and integrates custom Industry 4.0 traceability ecosystems for industrial enterprises. Its offerings combine proprietary RFID hardware (dock-door readers, tags, people-locator wearables, crane-position sensors), RFID-based automatic inventory software, and an integration API that connects operational data to customers' ERP/WMS systems. Solutions are delivered as project-based implementations addressing packaging traceability, inventory automation, workforce safety, and crane/asset position monitoring for industrial verticals such as mining, agriculture, logistics, and steel.

Product overview

Byond offers a portfolio of IoT-based Industry 4.0 solutions organized as a set of distinct core products rather than a single unified platform. Its four flagship offerings — Rastreabilidade de Embalagens (Packaging Traceability), Inventário Automático (Automatic Inventory), Localizador de Pessoas (People Locator), and Monitor de Posição de Ponte Rolante (Overhead Crane Position Monitor) — collectively address traceability, inventory automation, worker safety, and industrial asset positioning. Together they form Byond's IoT ecosystem for industrial and logistics operations, supported by an integration API for connection with customers' existing business management systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rastreabilidade de Embalagens (Packaging Traceability)

Quantifiable outcome

• Helps clients complete daily inventory of stocks in minutes rather than long manual cycles.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Alibaba Cloudflagship regional allianceTechnology or Integration · 15 October 2025BYOND Asia signed an MoU with Alibaba Cloud at GITEX Global 2025 to leverage Alibaba Cloud's newly launched second data center in Dubai for AI adoption and cloud services in the Middle East. The partnership positions BYOND Asia to deliver AI-powered industrial digitalization to regional customers using Alibaba's infrastructure.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Impinj: Provider of RAIN RFID tag chips, readers, and item-level visibility platforms used for inventory automation and supply chain traceability. Directly comparable to Byond's Automatic Inventory and Packaging Traceability products, with a similar RFID-centric technology stack targeting enterprise industrial customers.
• Confidex: Specialist RFID tag and industrial tracking solutions provider serving logistics, manufacturing, and asset management use cases. Comparable to Byond through overlapping RFID hardware and industrial traceability offerings, particularly for packaging and asset tracking.

Broad incumbents

• Zebra Technologies: Global leader in RFID readers, tags, and industrial asset-tracking solutions. Comparable to Byond because both sell RFID-based inventory and traceability hardware+software into industrial and logistics operators, though Zebra is a much larger, publicly traded incumbent with broader product breadth.
• Siemens (MindSphere / Industrial IoT): Major industrial automation incumbent with its MindSphere IoT platform and Industry 4.0 offerings covering asset monitoring, factory analytics, and traceability. Directly competes with Byond for enterprise industrial IoT budgets at large Brazilian and global accounts.
• HID Global: Identity and RFID tracking solutions provider serving industrial, logistics, and asset-tracking use cases. Comparable to Byond through overlapping RFID hardware and identification technology used for inventory, people tracking, and supply chain visibility.
• PTC (ThingWorx): Industrial IoT platform (ThingWorx) for connected asset monitoring, factory visibility, and industrial analytics. Comparable to Byond as a higher-level alternative for industrial asset and people visibility, though PTC operates as a horizontal platform rather than Byond's verticalized RFID+hardware stack.
• Honeywell Connected Enterprise: Industrial conglomerate offering IoT-enabled asset tracking, workforce safety, and supply chain visibility solutions. Comparable to Byond through overlapping use cases in workforce tracking and industrial asset visibility, with substantially greater scale and enterprise reach.

Regional players

• TOTVS: Brazil's largest enterprise software company, providing ERP and increasingly Industry 4.0 / IoT solutions to Brazilian industrial and agribusiness customers. Comparable as a regional peer in the same Brazilian enterprise ecosystem where Byond sells, and a potential integration partner or competitor for IoT data flowing into ERP/WMS systems.

Emerging players

• Particle Industries: IoT platform providing cellular-connected hardware, firmware, and cloud infrastructure for industrial IoT deployments. Comparable to Byond as an enabling IoT stack for connected industrial assets, though Particle focuses on the platform layer while Byond delivers full verticalized solutions.

Others

• Samsara: Cloud-based IoT platform for fleet, asset, and people tracking across industrial operations. Comparable to Byond on the people-tracking and operational-visibility use cases (and to a lesser extent asset positioning), with a software-led, recurring revenue model that contrasts with Byond's project-based delivery.

Market position

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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