AlterGeo
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| Industry | Internet, IT, software, location-based services; location-based advertising, geolocation, hybrid positioning system |
| Founded |
Moscow, Russia (May 2008) |
| Founder | Anton Baranchuk Alexandre Dorjiev Denis Alaev Sergey Kurlovich |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Anton Baranchuk, co-founder and CEO Alexandre Dorjiev, co-founder and CTO |
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Number of employees
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~20 |
| Website | platform |
AlterGeo, formerly known as Wi2Geo, is a Russian IT company specializing in the development of a global hybrid positioning system which combines Wi-Fi, WiMAX, GSM, GPS, LTE, IP address and network environment approaches. It also created cross-platform location-based services Gvidi and AlterGeo, and hyperlocal banner ad system Local Hero.
According to the Financial Times, AlterGeo is one of four "Russia's next tech titans".(registration required) The company was named winner and finalist of multiple domestic and international awards in the field of technology and media, and currently is a Skolkovo Innovation Center resident. It received funding from several prominent investors, including Intel Capital and Esther Dyson.
AlterGeo was established in 2008 to build a Wi-Fi positioning technology on the basis of the PhD thesis of one of its founders.
As long as the company's goal was to develop a universal solution which could overcome the limitations of satellite systems such as GPS, A-GPS and GLONASS, the team expanded R&D activities, and developed a "global hybrid system for the positioning of electronic devices by WiFi, WiMAX, GSM, LTE, IP addresses and network environment".
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