ZURICH and Dallas – March 5, 2024 – Tango, a leading provider of cloud-based real estate and facilities management software, today announced it has acquired Locatee, a leading workplace analytics solution. Locatee empowers organizations to make fact-based decisions by providing a complete picture of occupancy, driving strategic portfolio decisions, improving operational space utilization, and increasing employee satisfaction. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

“The complexities of managing a hybrid workplace mean that organizations are facing an imbalance in space supply and demand, with space utilization rates under 40% on average,” said Pranav Tyagi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tango. “Organizations are actively seeking to better understand occupancy levels, however existing solutions are often disparate and cost-prohibitive, leaving them struggling to gain accurate insights. With the addition of Locatee, Tango provides a comprehensive, cost-effective solution that empowers them to address critical questions regarding actual occupancy and utilization, leveraging their existing Wi-Fi and hard-wired networks as well as additional data sources such as badge and IoT sensors.”

“We are pleased to join the Tango family and realize the maximum value of Locatee’s occupancy data and analytics platform,” said Benedikt Köppel, Founder & Co-CEO of Locatee. “Tango is a leader in the application of AI/ML in the built environment and Locatee adds a rich occupancy data set to the massive amounts of data Tango already analyzes, which will deliver insights that benefit the entire real estate lifecycle including portfolio strategy, space optimization, maintenance, and sustainability.”  

Outfitting an entire real estate portfolio with IoT sensors is not an option for even the world’s largest organizations. Locatee bridges the occupancy data gap by providing instant occupancy data leveraging existing investments in Wi-Fi and ethernet, dramatically reducing costs and delivering a holistic picture of space usage across the entire portfolio. “We are excited to combine occupancy data at the building, floor, and zone level with Tango’s industry leading space management and reservation solutions to provide customers with a complete picture of planned, forecasted and actual occupancy,” said Myriam Locher, CRO & Co-CEO of Locatee.

Locatee’s offices, based in Zurich, Switzerland, will become Tango’s European headquarters serving the company’s international customers.  The combined business will serve over 500 customers in more than 140 countries from its primary offices in Dallas, New York, and Zurich.

Frost Brown Todd LLP acted as advisor and legal counsel to Tango and Berkshire Partners on the acquisition of Locatee. Locatee was advised by Lerner Associates Ltd. and Wenger Vieli AG.

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About Tango

With hundreds of customers across more than 140 countries, Tango is the leader in Store Lifecycle Management and Integrated Workplace Management System software, delivering a single solution spanning real estate, design & construction, lease administration & accounting, facilities, desk booking, visitor and space management. To learn more visit tangoanalytics.com.

About Locatee

Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilization insight. Developed with a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers workplace leaders to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence. To learn more, visit locatee.com.

 

  • Thomas Kessler to focus on his board member role and to step down from his CEO position.

 

Zurich, Switzerland, New York, USA, 15 July 2022 – Locatee is announcing a number of key changes to its leadership team to fully seize the current opportunity in the accelerating workplace analytics market. With companies across the globe having started to work more flexibly and to roll-out their “return-to-office” strategies, the demand for workplace occupancy data is higher and more strategically important than ever.

Locatee has been pioneering and playing a key role in the workplace transformation the last few years by establishing new, data-driven norms in the management and development of workplace performance. Its workplace analytics platform unifies various technologies and data sources to provide visibility on office usage and occupancy to workplace leaders worldwide. The scale, the depth, the richness of the data generated by Locatee’s solution, allows workplace leaders to better manage their built environment, allocate space judiciously, improve the employee experience and develop a sustainable workplace strategy.

Thomas Kessler has stepped down from his CEO position to focus on his role as a member of the Locatee board of directors providing market insight, expertise and thought leadership in the workplace technology market. Kessler led the creation of Locatee together with Benedikt Köppel, and has guided the company with a sound vision during the last seven years throughout the early stages towards growth.

Benedikt Köppel, co-founder and CTO, and Myriam Locher, who joined Locatee as Chief Revenue Officer earlier this year, step up as co-CEOs of the company. Köppel incorporated Locatee together with Kessler in 2015, and has strongly contributed to leading Locatee to its current leading position in the market. Locher joined after several successful entrepreneurial experiences to bring executive excellence to the company and imprint customer obsession to Locatee’s operations. As co-CEOs, Myriam Locher and Benedikt Köppel combine their product and revenue expertise. They steer Locatee to serve its global customer base following key principles: providing new, innovative technology solutions to cater to a growing demand for workplace solutions, thereby positioning the company to stand out to investors in the proptech market.

 

The next stage for Locatee needs heightened focus from the company’s leadership, and together with the board, we decided that Myriam and I should take over executive duties. I am proud to have brought this vision to this stage together with my co-founder, and I am thankful to Thomas for his leadership and friendship along the way.

Benedikt Köppel

 

Our solutions are a key ingredient to support corporate leaders in transforming the workplace. I know that Locatee has everything that is required to profoundly change how organizations address their workplace challenges with data. My energy and priority will be on driving excellence in our revenue operations and our customer experience. I am  looking forward to having Benedikt, as a highly experienced engineer and entrepreneur, by my side.” 

Myriam Locher

 

Building a company that enables places where people love to work has been the most exhilarating experience in my life. I am grateful to everyone that has contributed to building and developing our company. Locatee will continue to realize its ambitions by providing long term customer value and creating a category-leading and innovative solution.

Thomas Kessler

 

About Locatee

Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilization insight. Developed with a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers workplace leaders to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.

Zurich, Switzerland and New York, USA, 23 July 2021 – Locatee, the leading workplace analytics solution, is pleased to announce the recent addition of Roberta Sydney to its advisory board. In the context of a rapidly evolving proptech market for corporate real estate (CRE), it is crucial for Locatee as an industry leader and shaper to foster in-depth industry know-how and experience with long-term vision, bravery and innovative spirit. Such criteria led Locatee to select and nominate Roberta Sydney to its advisory board. 

 

Roberta’s career and life experience made her the ideal fit to join Locatee – a tech startup contributing to transforming the CRE environment. As an entrepreneur, Roberta founded and grew her own real estate business, developing and managing up to nine million square feet of property. As a senior executive and board member, Roberta has helped numerous companies achieve significant growth, including large, traditional organizations, emerging companies and venture capital-backed startups, and in 2020 she was given the distinction of “Director to Watch” by Private Company Director. This background gives her a unique perspective on the CRE industry and its current transformation.

 

“My path in the industry has led me to believe that our true responsibility as leaders lies in improving the built environment”, said Roberta Sydney. “In terms of optimizing the footprint of the building, and in terms of enabling a better environment for the people who ultimately use it. Even before Covid, our challenge was and remains to create a place that is engaging to those who come to the office, that enables them to be at their best, and also that fosters fairness and well-being”. 

 

While her responsibilities during her career have spanned across the globe, Roberta is a through-and-through expert of the US commercial and corporate real estate market, thus aligning with Locatee’s expansion in North America, along with its drive for diversity. “We are ecstatic to welcome Roberta’s skills, profile and perspective to our team”, said Thomas Kessler, CEO and co-founder of Locatee. “The unique scope of her experience, her drive to excel with her skills, vision and thought leadership, are precisely what we envisioned for our advisory board”. Locatee is striving to strengthen the diversity of skills, backgrounds and profiles in its team and initiatives, taking yet another leading position in a slowly evolving industry.

 

Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilization insight. Developed with a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers workplace leaders to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.

Zurich, 27 May 2021 – Locatee, the leading workplace analytics solution, is pleased to announce the recent addition of Christian Kuehni to its advisory board. The corporate real estate industry is undergoing significant changes due to digitalization and a maturing, transformational solutions market, reaching an inflection point. Locatee wants to strengthen and extend its top market position by bringing in some of the most experienced and forward-thinking leaders in the industry.

Christian has been a leading figure in the global corporate real estate industry for decades. He brings invaluable experience and industry knowledge to support Locatee’s growth targets and strategic positioning. His depth of understanding of real estate in large multinational corporations, as well as his extensive network within the international CRE industry, will help fortify Locatee’s position as a leading solution provider for CRE executives.

Throughout what has been an incredibly successful career, Christian has held senior management positions in property and non-property companies with real estate portfolios covering up to 220 countries and territories. In addition to managing large institutional commercial real estate portfolios, he has been Global Head of Corporate Real Estate for Deutsche Post DHL Group, UniCredit Group, Aventis (today Sanofi), Hoechst, and responsible in ABB for real estate development & promotion. He now joins Locatee in an advisory role, to help redefine the future of workplaces. 

“I am very impressed with Locatee’s solution, vision, strategy, capabilities, and successes so far,” Christian stated, “The importance of having meaningful, real-time, and consumption-ready data in today’s CRE industry is core business-critical, especially with the acceleration towards the much more complex hybrid workplaces. As an experienced corporate real estate industry leader, I see that we are reaching a pivotal moment of significant change. It is exciting for me to contribute to this transformation and to be a part of Locatee” 

He joins Locatee’s advisory board, which has been created to empower the company’s leadership team at strategic and operating levels, and to strengthen the company’s knowledge and expertise in corporate real estate as it ramps up its initiatives as a thought leader in the industry. “We are delighted to welcome someone of Christian’s caliber to our team”, said Thomas Kessler, CEO, and co-founder of Locatee. “We will benefit not only from the breadth of his knowledge but also from his willingness to explore visionary avenues for the future of CRE”. 

Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilization insight. Developed with a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers workplace leaders to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence. 

 

  • Locatee’s workspace analytics platform used by the likes of Deloitte, SwissRe, and other Global1000 companies in more than 60 countries. 
  • Launch of New York office will drive further support for US-based corporations as they shift to post-pandemic office working

 

New York, 25 February 2021:  Locatee – the Swiss-based workspace occupancy and analytics provider – today announces it has further expanded into the US, with a view to becoming the global leader in the workplace analytics market. Locatee’s New York-based team now provides support to US corporations wanting to effectively navigate post-pandemic office working, and reduce unnecessary real estate costs. 

Locatee’s unique workspace analytics solution – which leverages the existing wired and wireless networks in place – enables businesses to make data-driven decisions about their corporate real estate. By tracking occupancy and utilization rates of office spaces, Locatee customers can confidently establish exactly how effectively office space is being used. This enables corporations to upscale or downscale as needed, and optimize the office to ensure a better quality of office life for workers.

Locatee – which counts Deloitte, SwissRe, and other Global1000 companies including leading U.S. businesses as customers – has enjoyed strong growth across Europe since its founding, and tripled its revenue in 2020. With the corporate office landscape set to change significantly post-pandemic, US corporations must act now to ensure they are identifying and meeting the future needs of their office-based workforce.

Thomas Kessler, CEO and co-founder at Locatee comments: “The corporate office space in the US will be very different to the one we knew pre-pandemic. Corporations need to make decisive, data-led decisions about optimizing office space, ensuring it exceeds the needs of workers, whilst also being cost-efficient. We know that large corporations often struggle to identify exactly how their corporate real estate portfolio is utilized, and this leads to enormous cost inefficiencies in terms of wasted space. We’re here to help corporations effectively manage their real estate portfolios, and feel confident in providing productive, high-quality office spaces which are a pleasure to work in.” 

Philipp Stauffer, Co-Founder & Managing Director at FYRFLY added: “Locatee’s fantastic growth over the past few years is testament to the value they provide their customers. I am excited to see them bringing their platform technology and their insight and expertise to the US market. As we look to adapt the way we work in the post-Covid recovery, it’s crucial that organizations have the data and insight they need to make intelligent decisions about their workplace and real estate portfolio. Locatee provides that key, and we’re tremendously excited about their prospects.” 

About Locatee

Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilization insight. Developed with a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers workplace leaders to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence. 

Locatee recently released research into the US CRE market which can be found here: https://crem.locatee.com/survey-cre-in-the-us 

These times, keeping an eye on office occupancy and utilisation has reached a new stratosphere of significance. Managing workplace occupancy is now a business-critical need.

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Customer Exchange

Even before the official opening took place, our Customer Success Manager Sabine Ehm and Partner Channel Manager Nadine Haak organised a customer exchange. More than 20 partners and customers from the DACH region visited us to see our show room and talked to each other. Thanks to informative presentations also from customer side and the following exchange, the attendees including Locatee could highly benefit from the event.

people in office following a presentation in Locatee office

Office 2.0 Opening

Shortly after, our Workspace Experience Manager Mariel Chirino organised the official opening of the second part of the Locatee office, where we enjoyed an apéritif together. But the highlight was an original Super Nintendo including Mario Cart, which attracted a lot of attention!

 

This article has been translated to English. The original article in German can be found here.


 

The Post Immobilien Management Services AG (Post Real Estate) is a subsidiary of Swiss Post and one of the largest real estate companies in Switzerland. It manages around 2.300 properties – including all properties owned by Swiss Post, but also third-party customers. In the DOMBLICK interview, Valerie Riedo, Head of Innovation, reveals how the “yellow giant” positions itself on the topics of innovation and digital building.

 

Ms. Riedo, after six months in the new role of Head of Innovation at Post Real Estate: How are you driving forward the digital transformation and which innovation projects are being implemented?

The digital transformation in facility management lags behind the worldwide, rapid digital development. For example, while FinTech has been established in the financial industry for quite a while, PropTech is still in its infancy. The potential in digital real estate (DRE), is high. Post Real Estate has been building a culture of innovation for the past two years and consciously investing time and resources in the DRE.

As part of our innovation process, various new digital products and services are being developed and tested. The focus is on customer needs. We constantly check whether the developed solution can really solve the existing problem. For example, we are currently piloting an idea that was introduced directly by service technicians as part of an ideas competition. Actually, the app works like a GPS: it simplifies navigation in the building to find technical equipment easier and faster.

We are also proud that with Service on Demand and IntelliClean , we have developed two solutions that have already reached market maturity. These inspire customers and are currently scaled up externally on the market.

 

What is behind these two solutions?

With Service on Demand, we have developed the solution for demand-oriented facility management, which is now in use by various customers and has proven itself. Just press a button and the facility management is there. Regular inspections of filled crockery counters and empty file containers, intact coffee machines or functioning printers are a thing of the past. The facility management only moves out when it is called by the customer.

Internally, we were able to realize time savings of 20 percent while increasing customer satisfaction. We are constantly developing the product, whereby we are currently testing the demand report via voice (Alexa) or QR codes. With a voice input more or more individual information can be given and Alexa provides the building users even help for self-help and assigns the house service only when there is no other way.

With IntelliClean, cleaning is done on a data-only basis, and only where work has actually been done during the day. Based on different evaluations such as occupancy and weather data, there are no fixed tour plans. Instead, a dynamic route planning is created. And what’s especially pleasing is that IntelliClean is currently nominating Post ImmoClean for the CMS PURUS Innovation Award 2019, which will be awarded in Berlin at the end of September.

 

One could say: “Data is the new gold”. Ms. Riedo, which projects and practical examples are there besides Service on Demand and IntelliClean?

Right. At the center of digitization is the Digital Building. This includes all building data that is generated, updated and managed during the planning, construction and operation of a building. Building data, for example, is data from management systems such as SAP or ERP, from the CAFM, Computer Aided Facility Management system, building management systems or sensors. The focus is on the learning analytics platform, which uses all available data, ensures optimized and automated processes and enables the development of new services. For example, we have developed a predictive maintenance solution for our photovoltaic systems on certain properties. Instead of periodic cleanings, the optimum cleaning time is determined based on the current energy data of the systems and weather data, whereby the cleaning cycles can be reduced.

The building utilization data, which we have been cooperating with for some time now together with the start-up Locatee, are also of central importance to us for the 30 largest office premises. Employees immediately see on the display which zones are free or occupied (see Case Study Post). The workspace actually needed can be steadily optimized with an increase in part-time work and home office. For the staff restaurant, we have developed a model that enriches the historical and current occupancy data with weather data and creates a forecast for occupancy during lunch time. This allows employees to choose the most optimal time for lunch. If nice weather is forecasted the next day, more people will be eating outside, and so there will be fewer staff in the staff restaurant. This forecast data can also be used to determine the number of meals in the restaurant, further reducing food waste.

 

Are the new ideas and technologies also applied when it comes to project developments or new buildings?

It is a goal of Post Real Estate to play a pioneering role in investment properties and future construction projects in the field of PropTech and Digital Building. As an example: Two major project developments by Post Real Estate are Bern Weyermannshaus and Basel Nauentor. In order to be able to show the different stages of construction to the different stakeholders not only on the basis of a plaster model or 2D plans on site, we also created a 3D model using augmented reality (AR). In the process, the area will be accessible via the Microsoft Hololens, so smart glasses, presented from different perspectives and to functionalities, such as the sun or the bus stops, complemented. As an extension is now the simulation of flow of people in development. This allows the optimal positioning and design of the retail space to be defined.

Over the next 15 years, Swiss Post will invest around 1.8 billion francs in 50 yield building projects. At the same time, we are investing in real estate innovation, connecting the physical and the digital world, and hopefully setting new standards with our digital real estate products and system solutions.

 

Thank you, Mrs Riedo, for the very interesting conversation and the insights into the company.

From: Mathias Rinka, «Domblick»

 

Read the original article (in German)

 

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We took the next step and moved into our new office.Due to our ambitious plans to expand globally, we’ve enlarged our team, and it will be growing even more in the future. In order to provide the optimal work environment for our employees, we decided to move. However, we remain in the emerging district of Zurich Altstetten. From now on, you can find us at this new address:

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