INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Those cards and badges do their job, but they can be both cumbersome and prone to problems
OpenPath wants to do away with all of these issues and add a new level of convenience to this whole process by replacing these access cards
with the phone you already have.Until today, OpenPath, which currently has about 20 employees, remained in stealth mode since it was founded
by Edgecast co-founders Alex Kazerani (CEO)and James Segil (President), together with a number of other former Edgecast execs
The founders are putting their own money into this startup and are leading a $7 million seed round
the hardware and software for allowing employees to securely open doors and for security teams to manage their access
employees access to their spaces.Segil argues that employees have come to expect a certain level of convenience in the workplace and while
ready to be used thousands of times a day.The OpenPath team developed its own reader hardware, which businesses have to install at their
The hardware uses the same wiring as existing services, though, making it easy to replace a legacy system with this new solution.