francisco california united states of america area served international founder s filip eldic emil davityan website www.bluedotinnovation.com type of site location based service advertising none available in english launched 2012 current status active bluedot innovation is a r & d focused technology company headquartered in melbourne australia that specialises in high precision location services for smartphones . contents 1 point sdk 2 history 3 references 4 external links point sdk edit bluedot innovation developed and operates the bluedot point sdk a software development kit that enables smartphone applications on the android and ios platforms to intelligently manage the gps chip set and as a result provide battery efficient precise location awareness to smartphones . by managing the battery drain stemming from constant gps tracking the point sdk enables smartphones to react to and perform actions when entering areas as precise as a few meters wide . 1 the bluedot point sdk enables pre built actions to be triggered when users enter these precise locations and conditions according to which the actions will occur . the bluedot point sdk was used by two of the top five applications created during the victorian government infrahack hackathon 2 history edit bluedot innovation was founded in adelaide south australia by filip eldic and emil davityan in december 2012 . bluedot innovation was accepted into and participated in the anz innoyz start accelerator program in early 2013 . 3 following the completion of the anz innovyz start program bluedot innovation raised its first round of funding and expanded its board to include the founding cfo of paypal david jaques . 4 in november 2013 bluedot innovation received a grant from the australian government agency commercialisation australia in november 2013 . 5 in june of 2014 bluedot innovation was awarded the title of best startup in australia by the talent unleashed awards with judges including steve wozniak and richard branson . 6 to date bluedot innovation has raised a total of 3.5 million in funding with the most recent round including investor jeffery katz formerly of mercury payment systems . 7 bluedot has entered into an exclusive licensing arrangement with cardfree in order to integrate bluedot s cutting edge locations services technology into the applications some of the largest food retail chains across the usa . 8 9 bluedot has also been featured in case studies by kpmg 10 and google partner onigroup 11 focusing on bluedot s potential in changing the way enterprises connect with their customers through highly innovative ip and technology . references edit australian firm bluedot invents new location technology gps accuracy with very low power startup88 www.startup88.com retrieved november 25 2014 smart city apps to alleviate melbourne s infrastructure problems techworld www.techworld.com.au retrieved november 25 2014 why three s the magic number to get into anz innovyz start accelerator brw www.brw.com.au retrieved november 25 2014 founding cfo of paypal david jaques joins bluedot innovation startup daily www.startupdaily.com.au retrieved november 25 2014 production and licensing of bluedot geolocation software development kit commercialisation australia www.business.gov.au retrieved november 25 2014 news bytes for week of june 23 2014 sydney morning herald www.smh.com.au retrieved november 25 2014 focus on bluedot potential pays off fran foo www.theaustralian.com.au retrieved january 19 2015 cardfree signs exclusive deal with bluedot innovation for its high precision location services to enable offers orders and payments seamlessly via mobile platform business wire 1 retrieved april 15 2015 external link in publisher help bluedot cardfree bring location based services to us restaurants adam bender 2 retrieved april 15 2015 external link in publisher help why are big businesses looking to start ups for innovation pdf kpmg 3 retrieved april 15 2015 external link in publisher help bluedot innovation delivering 20x the precision of traditional mobile location services with the google maps api for work pdf onigroup 4 retrieved april 15 2015 external link in publisher help external links edit official website www.bluedotinnovation.com devresources pages developer website bluedot innovation at crunchbase retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bluedot innovation & oldid 737461267 categories companies of australiahidden categories cs1 errors external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload 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