vedant harlalka
ceo · electrical engineering, u of t
featured across 30+ publications and a tedx with 50m+ reach. $400k scholarship recipient. semiconductor research fellow at ap2d labs.
for investors
we got into the room by running the lights. that same hardware reads the crowd, the sound, and the spend on every shift: the data layer no venue has ever had, and no incumbent is positioned to build.
the wedge
fifty years of atmospherics research (kotler, bitner, oxford's crossmodal lab, pan et al.) shows lighting, audio, and crowd state move dwell, pace, and willingness to pay. no platform has ever unified those signals with pos revenue and crowd safety on the same shift, in real time. that's the opening.
six kpis
average minutes per guest, entry to exit. +1% dwell ≈ +1.3% sales.
drinks per patron-hour. slow tempo → +40% spend; 88 db → +31% drinks.
median ms between audio onset and light cue. <100ms is the neural integration threshold.
0–100 composite of crowd motion and ambient spl. dynamic av ramps drinking.
$ per cover and % of orders in the premium tier. red light → higher willingness to pay.
live people/m² per zone, four-state alert ladder. ≥5 p/m² is high crush risk.
traction
today a venue's signals live in tools that don't talk to each other: pos sees revenue, retail analytics see dwell, and nobody captures all six together with sub-100ms av-sync. we already ship the hardware and the pipeline, so adding pos is a software integration and density is a model output on hardware that's already deployed. the science has been settled for decades; the field measurement is the part nobody has owned, and that's what we're building.
founders
ceo · electrical engineering, u of t
featured across 30+ publications and a tedx with 50m+ reach. $400k scholarship recipient. semiconductor research fellow at ap2d labs.
cto · industrial engineering, u of t
technology consultant at ey. $400k scholarship recipient. raised $210k for classroom construction in rural kenya.
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the deck
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