Kiana Analytics

What Kiana Analytics does

Kiana Analytics, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, operates a cloud-based Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) platform marketed as XPRT for Smart Facilities Management. The platform aggregates data from existing enterprise wireless infrastructure—rather than requiring dedicated hardware—to deliver visitor management, intelligent asset tracking, space utilization, emergency mustering, security analytics, operations dashboards, and power/environment monitoring for customers in retail, higher education, amusement parks, government, energy, and industrial settings. Sub-products include Kiana Engage (DHS-funded engagement), Kiana Koncierge (digital signage and social WiFi), and an Industrial IoT Platform aimed at energy and manufacturing sites.

The company sells on a SaaS subscription basis with annual and multi-year terms, distributing through direct sales, technology integration partners (Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Fortinet, CommScope Ruckus, Cradlepoint, Extreme Networks, Johnson Controls, Milestone), cloud implementation partners (Google Cloud via SADA), and accelerator pipelines (Plug and Play, Chevron Technology Ventures Catalyst, NOV Supernova). It also leverages a contracting vehicle with E&I Cooperative Services to reach higher education. Founder and CEO Nader Fathi previously founded SigmaQuest (acquired by Camstar), and co-founders Sebastian Andreatta (ex-Cisco) and Klaus Ten Hagen, Ph.D. (founder of Decision Optimization GmbH and named on multiple patents), anchor the technical leadership. The firm has been validated through DHS S&T's Silicon Valley Innovation Program for U.S. Customs and Border Protection deployments and is positioned for regulated and critical-infrastructure procurement, with stated GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA compliance.

Name

Kiana Analytics

Legal name

Kiana Analytics

Website

https://kiana.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kiana Analytics provides a cloud-based Wi-Fi and Bluetooth RTLS platform for smart facilities management, serving retail, higher education, government, energy, and industrial enterprises with visitor, asset, and space analytics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Facility Management Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Wi‑Fi Location Services & RTLS (BLE/UWB/Wi‑Fi positioning) (HDAFACAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Asset Tracking, RTLS & Equipment Monitoring (Facilities) (HSAPAPAJ)

Keywords

• Wi-Fi RTLS platform
• Smart facility management
• Real-time location services
• Presence analytics
• Connected worker solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Sunnyvale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. XPRT Smart Facilities Management SaaS Platform Subscription: The company generates recurring subscription revenue through its XPRT Smart Facilities Management SaaS platform, which leverages a customer's existing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth infrastructure. The platform provides real-time location services, security management, space utilization, operations analytics, health and wellness management, visitor management, and asset management. No upfront infrastructure investment is required from customers, as the solution runs on existing network infrastructure.
2. Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform: Annual and multi-year SaaS subscription contracts billed on a recurring basis. The platform is delivered as a cloud-hosted service with encrypted interface access.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Kiana Analytics provides a cloud-based SaaS Real Time Location System (RTLS) platform, branded as XPRT Smart Facilities Management, that leverages customers' existing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth infrastructure to deliver location tracking, security management, space utilization, asset tracking, visitor management, and health/wellness monitoring for enterprise facilities. The hardware-agnostic platform requires no additional sensors, apps, or upfront capital expenditure and integrates with all major access point manufacturers.

Product overview

Kiana Analytics provides a cloud-based Smart Facility Management Platform centered on its XPRT software—a Privacy-centered SaaS RTLS platform that transforms facilities using existing WiFi and Bluetooth infrastructure without additional hardware investment. The platform offers modular solutions including Visitor Management, Intelligent Asset Management, Smart Work Ticket (Digital Work Ticket Solutions), Emergency Evacuation and Mustering, Health & Wellness Management, Security Management, Space Utilization, Operations Analytics, and Power & Environment Management. Kiana's technology integrates with all major Access Point Manufacturers and provides single pane of glass integration for IoT sensors. Founded in 2013, the company has evolved from retail foot traffic analytics (offering Social WiFi and Kiana Koncierge digital signage solutions) into industrial IoT for manufacturing and energy sectors with their Connected Worker Industrial IoT Platform. The Kiana Engage sub-product provides presence analytics by integrating WiFi sensor data with camera feeds for crowd behavior analysis. Target industries include Smart Buildings, Smart Factories (Factory 4.0), Schools/Universities, Government & DHS, Oil & Gas, Mining, Steel, and Process Industries. The company operates globally with offices in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Germany, and is venture-backed with DHS SVIP portfolio company status.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• XPRT Smart Facilities Management: Cloud-based SaaS control platform that uses existing network infrastructure for facility management capabilities including security, space utilization, operations analytics, and workflow automation.
• Kiana Engage
• IoP-Sec (Internet of People Security)

Products and services

• XPRT Smart Facilities Management Platform Cloud-based SaaS RTLS control platform integrated with all major Access Point manufacturers providing a single pane of glass for IoT sensor and device integration, delivering capabilities for asset behavior, site optimization, personnel health, emergency location, rogue devices, energy utilization, and facility workflow.
• Visitor Management GDPR-compliant visitor registration and management solution supporting advance or on-site registration without apps, customizable for one-time visits, multi-day events, or contractor access, including touchless sign-in and configurable health questionnaires.
• Intelligent Asset Management Asset tracking solution providing location and proximity-based permissions, access to digital maintenance instructions, alerts for anomalous behavior and movement, valuation analysis by run time or usage, and equipment scheduling for billing.
• Smart Ticket - Digital Work Ticket Solutions Digital work ticket and process automation solution that provides real-time viewing of maintenance status, work logs, maintenance records, and instructions, plus immediate reassignment or rescheduling of work tickets and public alerting of site issues.
• Emergency Evacuation and Mustering Real-time emergency location solution that locates individuals during emergencies, identifies exposed areas for surgical cleaning, provides emergency alerts to personnel, and alerts when exposed persons return prior to authorization.
• Kiana Engage Cloud-based solution integrating anonymous data from non-invasive WiFi sensors with data from legacy sensors such as cameras to provide real-time measurements and analytics of crowd behavior and movement, including wait time calculation, prediction, and traveler communication.
• Industrial IoT Platform Hardware-agnostic Connected Worker data analytics platform tailored for safety, security, and productivity concerns within industrial environments in the energy and manufacturing sectors.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce real estate lease costs by 10–25% through improved space utilization visibility
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NOV InccoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2024Selected for the NOV Supernova Accelerator, a venture builder program for upstream oil & gas digital transformation. The five-month program offers startups access to NOV's R&D and business units, with a focus on paid pilot programs and solving key enterprise challenges. Often serves as a first-client relationship for long-term partnerships.
• Chevron Technology VenturescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2023Selected for the CTV Catalyst Program, a collaboration to accelerate development and implementation of Kiana's Industrial IoT Platform tailored for safety, security, and productivity concerns within the energy industry. Chevron's interest underscores the energy sector's commitment to digitization through Connected Worker technology.
• Plug and Play JapancoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 March 2022Selected as one of 25 startups for Plug and Play Japan's 3rd Smart Cities Accelerator Batch operating in Osaka and Tokyo, with 18 corporate partners. The 15-week program runs from March to July 2022, providing access to major Japanese corporations and expansion opportunities in the APAC market.
• E&I Cooperative ServicescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorE&I Cooperative Services is an E&I procurement contract partner through which Kiana Analytics delivers its Smart Facilities platform to the higher education market. E&I is a member-driven purchasing cooperative serving academic institutions.
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security S&TcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDHS S&T SVIP portfolio company awarded two projects to provide Customs and Border Protection with location and security technologies. Project 1 enhances CBP passenger screening; Project 2 develops Kiana Engage for queue measurement and traveler experience. Kiana presented IoP-Sec framework at DHS S&T Cybersecurity and Innovation Showcase 2019.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Pointr: Pointr provides indoor location and analytics using BLE and Wi-Fi for retail, airports, and smart buildings. Targets the same digital wayfinding, presence analytics, and proximity engagement workloads as Kiana's Kiana Engage and presence analytics modules.
• Infsoft: Infsoft offers indoor positioning, RTLS, and analytics using Wi-Fi, BLE, and UWB. Competes with Kiana in venues, airports, and industrial sites where multi-technology indoor positioning is required.
• InnerSpace: InnerSpace provides workplace analytics and space utilization using existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, directly targeting Kiana's space utilization and Smart Buildings value proposition for enterprise office and campus customers.

Broad incumbents

• Zebra Technologies: Zebra is a broad enterprise asset intelligence incumbent spanning barcode/RFID/UWB location solutions for retail, manufacturing, and logistics. Competes with Kiana in high-value asset tracking and operational visibility, especially in industrial verticals.
• Stanley Healthcare / Securitas Healthcare (Acuity Location Solutions): Stanley/Acuity provides RTLS for hospitals, senior living, and industrial safety. Overlaps directly with Kiana's emergency evacuation, mustering, and personnel tracking use cases in healthcare and industrial facilities.
• Extreme Networks: Extreme Networks integrates Kiana into its Wi-Fi AP ecosystem but also offers its own location and analytics capabilities across its networking portfolio. Competes at the platform layer for venue, retail, and campus deployments.

Direct peers

• Fortinet (FortiPresence): Fortinet resells Kiana into its channel but also offers FortiPresence, its own Wi-Fi-based visitor analytics and presence platform. Competes head-on with Kiana for retail and venue presence analytics while simultaneously being a distribution partner.
• HPE Aruba (Aruba Location Services / Meridian): Aruba Networks (HPE) provides indoor location and asset tracking services on top of its Wi-Fi infrastructure. Direct overlap with Kiana's value proposition for smart buildings, campuses, and venue analytics, and Aruba is both a partner and a competitor to Kiana.
• Mist Systems (Juniper Networks): Mist, now part of Juniper, delivers AI-driven Wi-Fi with virtual BLE and location services. Targets the same enterprise smart-building and campus use cases as Kiana and competes with Wi-Fi-native RTLS plus BLE extension capability.
• Cisco (DNA Spaces / Cisco Spaces): Cisco offers a Wi-Fi-based location and analytics platform natively integrated with Cisco/Meraki access points — the same channel Kiana sells into. Both compete for the same enterprise and retail RTLS workloads, with Cisco bundling location services with its networking hardware.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors6 records

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M&A

Investments

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

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