On Stompstart by 12 February 2016 · Boston · United States
BeaconsInSpace.
A Boston startup pitched as Airbnb for iBeacons that became Fysical, a location data market, which the ad-tech company now called Infillion lists among its 2019 acquisitions.
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BetaList featured BeaconsInSpace as 'Airbnb for beacons', a marketplace to list and rent beacon networks.
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StartUp Beat reported a partnership giving BeaconsInSpace apps access to French startup Check's beacons in over 1,000 venues, and said more than 500 apps were on the BeaconsInSpace platform.
On record · Announced - Changed course
The Fysical blog published 'Introducing Fysical: A Decentralized Location Data Market' by Ben Smith.
Change of course · Announced - Renamed
The beaconsinspace.com home page, archived on 11 January 2018, announced 'BeaconsInSpace is now Fysical'.
Rename · Announced - On record
Fysical says its data protocol and FYS token shipped to the Ethereum mainnet on 28 February 2018, run by Fysical Technologies Pte. Ltd. of Singapore.
On record · Announced - Acquired
Infillion (formerly Gimbal | true[X]) lists Fysical, a location data marketplace, as a 2019 startup acquisition and says its founder Ben Smith now leads Infillion's Data Products organization.
Acquisition · Announced - Activity
fysical.com, archived on 16 July 2019, presented Fysical Labs, Inc. as a seller of place-visit data from a movement SDK it said was installed in hundreds of apps.
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“Airbnb for iBeacons”
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“Airbnb for iBeacons”
BeaconsInSpace is a marketplace for apps to hook into existing beacon networks. Owners of beacon networks can list their beacons and apps can rent them. Be it a convention center for the day, or a bar for the year, BeaconsInSpace allows apps to scale when and where they want to.
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- Boston · United States
In our words: Its Stompstart page described BeaconsInSpace as a marketplace where owners of Bluetooth beacon networks could list their beacons and app makers could rent them, for a day at a convention centre or a year in a bar, so apps could reach new locations without installing hardware.
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