Kiana was founded by a group of seasoned data scientists and serial entrepreneurs in 2013. Our mission was to convert “Dark Data” collected by WiFi-based devices to actionable information. Our founding team’s experience in Big Data and IoT analytics has driven our technology goals forward, providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Kiana cloud-based software and device detection enhance physical security, optimizes operations and delivers proximity solutions for businesses worldwide.

Kiana Analytics is a fast-growing VC-backed company with offices in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Germany. Kiana was named the “Hottest Company in July 2016” by the world’s largest startup accelerator, Plug and Play Tech Center.

Sebastian is a former CEO of Metrics Medicus, an employee workflow and user behaviour analytics company. He has held senior roles in the mobile networking industry (Miraveo, Cisco, Ardent) focused on enterprise and retail store services, in-store networking and advertising, and navigation and mobile user analysis.

Nader is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of the big data industry. He was founder & CEO of SigmaQuest, which was successfully acquired by Camstar. Nader served as CEO of IntraStage and as advisory board member at Glassbeam. He is also former Executive-In-Residence at both USC Stevens and Plug&Play Tech Center.

Klaus founded Decision Optimization GmbH, a data mining and predictive maintenance company. He is a former VP of Engineering at SigmaQuest. He is a Database and Data Mining Professor at Zittau/Görlitz University. He holds 3 patents in data analytics and has published several Cloud Computing books.