Butlr

Team: Butlr | Origin: California | Participation: NSF I-Corps Participant, 2020

Butlr fuses artificial intelligence with body heat sensing technology to build patented sensors and an anonymous people-sensing platform. Their sensors and data are used to ensure safer senior care communities, enable more productive and collaborative workplaces, create an engaging retail shopping experience, and foster greater connectedness among humans interacting in real life.

Using thermal insights, the company's technology accurately discerns activity, occupancy, indoor location and body posture. Their technology does not capture personally identifiable information and ensures patients' privacy. Butlr is used in senior care communities, higher education campuses, commercial real estate businesses and retail stores.  

Butlr team
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As of 2025, Butlr serves over 100 customers and has produced thousands of sensors, covering more than 40 million square feet of indoor space on three continents. The company has sold hundreds of millions of dollars in products and raised $68 million from top-tier investors. The company currently employs 70 employees and maintains offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Japan.
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