Bluedot Innovation
Bluedot Innovation is a R&D focused technology company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, that specialises in high precision location services for smartphones. Point SDK. Bluedot Innovation developed and operates the Bluedot Point SDK, a software development kit that enables smartphone applications on the Android and iOS platforms to 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. 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 History. 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. 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. In November 2013, Bluedot Innovation received a grant from the Australian Government Agency Commercialisation Australia in November 2013. In June 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. 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. 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. Bluedot has also been featured in case studies by KPMG and Google partner OniGroup focusing on Bluedot's potential in changing the way enterprises connect with their customers through highly innovative IP and technology.