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Butlr

Investment areas

  • Applied AI & ML
  • Climate
  • Computing
  • Energy
Founders & Leadership
Honghao Deng
Jiani Zeng
Headquarters
Burlingame, California

Sees no-one. Senses everyone.

The Tough Tech problem we are solving

Butlr developed and patented the world’s first thermal layer for physical spaces. It combined heat-based sensing and AI to unlock real-time, activity insights for more efficient, collaborative, and healthier spaces while ensuring 100% anonymity.

About our solution

Butlr is an MIT Media Lab spinout that fuses artificial intelligence with heat sensing technology to build patented sensors and an anonymous spatial intelligence platform. Using thermal insights, Butlr technology understands subtle movements in a space, accurately discerns activity, occupancy, indoor location, and body posture yet is purposely designed to be incapable of capturing personally identifiable information. Butlr spatial insights are used by some of the world's largest companies in hospitality, senior living, health care, data center, commercial real estate, retail, and public transportation. Customers and partners include Verizon, AstraZeneca Carrier, Netflix, Ricoh, and CBRE. For more information, visit www.butlr.com.