I met James in early 2019. He strolled into our office with what looked like a science project - a plank of wood hoisting a door knob with an access reader appended. He came in swagged out in his company logo adorned shirt and a face full of excitement. His presentation was clever, witty, well paced and engaging. It was a pitch I’d never seen before. He had me laughing at his jokes and fully leaning in to the hop scotching story of the huge problem his company had set out to solve. So many founders who had pitched me before just launched right into why the world was broken and how they were the hero to fix it. Most had grandiose visions of changing the world of real estate by introducing new behaviors and radically upending the status quo. Beautiful in theory but often impractical - and left them revving their engines but unable to get out of the gate. This was something entirely different. James had me thinking deeply about something I never gave any thought to - access control.
The Openpath Forward
The Openpath Forward
The Openpath Forward
I met James in early 2019. He strolled into our office with what looked like a science project - a plank of wood hoisting a door knob with an access reader appended. He came in swagged out in his company logo adorned shirt and a face full of excitement. His presentation was clever, witty, well paced and engaging. It was a pitch I’d never seen before. He had me laughing at his jokes and fully leaning in to the hop scotching story of the huge problem his company had set out to solve. So many founders who had pitched me before just launched right into why the world was broken and how they were the hero to fix it. Most had grandiose visions of changing the world of real estate by introducing new behaviors and radically upending the status quo. Beautiful in theory but often impractical - and left them revving their engines but unable to get out of the gate. This was something entirely different. James had me thinking deeply about something I never gave any thought to - access control.