What CTOUCH does

CTOUCH, operating under the i3CONNECT brand, designs and sells large-format interactive touchscreens and companion collaboration software for business and education environments. The core offering is a modular hardware platform of large-format touch displays, layered with proprietary software modules: Touch for interactive display functionality, Inspire for real-time annotation, visualisation and idea mapping, and Connect for hybrid meeting collaboration. The company also sells supporting accessories to round out the solution. A central design principle is sustainability, with the company claiming circular design, energy-saving features, and data-backed environmental claims built into every product. The business model is hardware sales of high-ticket interactive displays, supplemented by software and accessories, sold through a direct, consultative enterprise field-sales motion. Customers discover products via the company website and request demos or sales consultations; no public pricing tiers are disclosed. The company targets two primary segments on a horizontal basis: corporate buyers (workshops, meetings, quick huddles, hybrid collaboration) and education buyers (classrooms, teaching, visual learning), with the products positioned as teacher-tested and classroom-validated. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the company is a private for-profit business with 11–50 employees and claims a global distribution footprint through direct sales. No funding history, revenue figures, named customers, or partnership ecosystem are disclosed in the available data, which constrains visibility into scale, growth, and customer mix.

Name

CTOUCH

Legal name

i3CONNECT

Website

https://ctouch.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CTOUCH (i3CONNECT) designs and sells large-format interactive touchscreens and companion collaboration software for business and education buyers, distributed globally through a direct, consultative enterprise sales model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Interactive Large-Format Touch Displays

NAICS

Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (33411)

SIC

Computer & Office Equipment (3570)

akta.pro primary industry

Touchscreen Monitors (Interactive) (HDACADAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Signage & Commercial Displays (HDACADAL), Digital Signage & Campus Communication Displays (EDAEAHAM)

Keywords

• Interactive touchscreens
• Large format displays
• Collaboration software
• Hybrid meeting solutions
• Education display technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Eindhoven

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Interactive Display Hardware Sales: Large-format interactive touchscreen sales and related accessories for business and education markets. The company sells displays along with software solutions for collaboration and annotation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CTOUCH manufactures and sells large-format interactive touch displays for business and education environments. Each display is paired with proprietary software — Touch (interactive display functionality), Inspire (real-time annotation and visual collaboration), and Connect (hybrid meeting support) — along with supporting accessories, delivering a complete interactive collaboration solution for meeting rooms, huddle spaces, and classrooms.

Product overview

i3CONNECT is a modular interactive technology platform that offers a unified ecosystem of hardware and software solutions for business and education environments. The portfolio centers on large-format interactive touchscreens as the core hardware platform, complemented by software modules including Touch (for interactive display functionality), Inspire (for visual collaboration and annotation), and Connect (for hybrid meeting support). Accessories round out the offering to create complete interactive solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Touch: Interactive touchscreens for meetings, lessons and brainstorming sessions
• Inspire
• Connect

Products and services

• Touch (Interactive Touchscreens) Large-format interactive touchscreens for business and education customers, enabling touch-based interaction in meetings, lessons, and brainstorming sessions.
• Inspire (Software) Software that lets users draw, map, sketch, annotate in real time, and visualise ideas on CTOUCH displays, intended for classroom instruction and meeting-room collaboration.
• Connect (Hybrid Meeting Solution) Hybrid meeting capability bundled with CTOUCH interactive displays, providing seamless collaboration between in-room and remote participants.
• Large-Format Touchscreens (Core Hardware Line) Flagship large-format interactive touchscreen hardware line serving as the primary platform for the i3CONNECT/CTOUCH ecosystem across business and education settings.
• Accessories Supporting equipment and add-ons that complement the interactive displays and enhance usability in business and education settings.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SMART Technologies: SMART is the original pioneer of large-format interactive displays for education and business (SMART Board). It is the most direct peer to i3CONNECT in product category, customer segments (schools + enterprises), and bundled whiteboard/collab software model.
• Promethean: Promethean sells ActivPanel interactive displays and accompanying classroom software (ActivInspire) primarily to K–12 education globally — a directly comparable offering to i3CONNECT's Touch + Inspire stack for the education vertical.
• BenQ: BenQ's Interactive Flat Panel line (e.g., RP series, RE series) targets both classroom and meeting-room buyers with bundled annotation and collaboration software, directly competing with i3CONNECT across both segments.
• Newline Interactive: Newline is a focused interactive display vendor with Trutouch/TT series panels aimed at education and corporate meeting rooms, bundled with its own collaboration software — a tight product-line comparable to i3CONNECT.
• ViewSonic: ViewSonic offers ViewBoard interactive displays with myViewBoard software for education and enterprise collaboration, directly competing on the same hardware-plus-software proposition in i3CONNECT's core markets.

Broad incumbents

• Samsung (Interactive Display): Samsung's Flip and WAC interactive display lines target meeting rooms with deep ecosystem integration (Workspace, Microsoft 365). It is a broad incumbent rather than a focused display vendor, but it directly competes in the meeting-room segment.
• Microsoft (Surface Hub): Microsoft Surface Hub is a large-format interactive display deeply integrated with Teams and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. As a broad platform incumbent, it competes for the same enterprise meeting-room budget that i3CONNECT targets with Connect.
• Sharp NEC Display Solutions: Sharp NEC offers a broad portfolio including large-format commercial displays and collaboration-focused interactive panels. It is a broad incumbent in commercial display hardware that overlaps with i3CONNECT's business segment.
• Cisco (Webex Board): Cisco Webex Board is a large-format interactive display integrated with the Webex collaboration platform. It is a broad incumbent targeting the same hybrid-meeting use case as i3CONNECT's Connect product.

Others

• CTOUCH / i3CONNECT: Self-reference placeholder omitted — no peer added.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CTOUCH_displays

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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