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Key Dates

  • Founded: 1999
  • Series A funding: 2001
  • First Commercial Deployment: 2003
  • Series B funding: 2004

Polaris Locations

  • Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
  • Regional Headquarters: Dubai, U.A.E., Bangalore, India, Tokyo, Japan, and Santiago, Chile

Products

  • Emergency Call Services (E911 Phase II)
  • Location-Based Services
  • Network Optimization
  • Autonomous Monitoring
  • Lawful Location Surveillance

The Polaris Wireless Location Signatures products are based on the following components:

  • The WLS Location Engine
  • Autonomous Monitoring System — includes the Predicted Signature Database (PSD)

Patents

  • 45 patents filed
  • 18 approved, 7 granted for location algorithms

Target Market and Customers

  • Wireless Operators, Law Enforcement Agencies & Application Providers worldwide

Current Customers

  • 3 Tier 1 operators and 17 regional operators in the US
  • UMTS operators in Asia

Investors

  • Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  • Palisades Ventures
  • ePlanet Ventures

Board of Directors

  • Manlio Allegra, President and CEO, Co-Founder
  • Josh Stein, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  • Anders Richardson, Co-Founder, Managing Director, Palisades Ventures
  • Jan Neels, former President, AirTouch International, Ltd.
 

LATEST NEWS

Polaris CEO: Location information to include height component in 2014

Urgent Communications

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Polaris Wireless Announces Record Bookings in 2011; Forecasts Significant Revenue Increase in 2012

Global leader in high-accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions caps successful year with business expansion to support growing demand

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Polaris Locates Growth Opportunity

Light Reading India

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UPCOMING EVENTS

AGC Growth Conference

San Francisco

February 28

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ISS World MEA

Dubai, U.A.E.

Feb 13 - 15

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