Combain continuously works towards this vision by developing an accurate, low-cost, and global positioning service based on radio.
We believe in radio, IoT, M2M, cloud services, crowd-sourcing, machine learning/AI and big data mining/analysis.
In the future we aim to be the leader in global indoor and outdoor positioning!
Combain is based in Ideon Research Park, Lund, Sweden. For us this is the ideal location, innovative area, close to Lund University with all it’s research, close to major telecom companies like Ericsson, Sony Mobile, Nokia, Huawei and a short train ride from Copenhagen Airport.
We also have an office in Palo Alto, CA, close to customers and in the center of Silicon Valley where we closely follow the latest technology.
Our management team have a long and broad experience from the telecom industry and from working with cloud based solutions. In 2015 Combain proudly received awards and recognitions: 33-listan, Sweden’s 33 most potential tech companies, and Winner of Red Herring Top 100 Europe.
Combain has continuously been growing every year, profitable since 2012 and is self funded (bootstrapped).
Combain is also fortunate enough to have very experienced business advisors in the relevant field.
Our history started back in 2006 when Combain Consulting AB got a research assignment from Sony Ericsson to develop positioning algorithms, build a Cell ID database and drive around in the woods of southern Sweden to capture Cell IDs in a crowd sourcing way from Swedish mobile network operators. We had then and still have a passion about location based services and how to use mobile positioning to improve these.
In 2009, Combain Mobile AB was founded and Location-API.com was launched as an innovative mobile positioning cloud service. It quickly got it’s first customer within valuable goods tracking. The service has today evolved to a much better performing Combain Positioning Service called Combain Location API.
Today our team has managed to develop advanced positioning algorithms that gives best location accuracy possible and build one of the world’s largest positioning database. We continue to do positioning research targeting global self learning indoor positioning and navigation in collaboration with Lund University.
Björn Lindquist, CEO
Björn is a co-founder of Combain Mobile AB in 2009 to address the rapidly growing demand for mobile positioning solutions. Prior to Combain, Björn held many senior management positions in Sony Ericsson and Ericsson such as VP Technology & Research (Sweden), VP Technology Strategy CTO Office (Sweden), VP Product Development DU Americas (USA), and Director Product Development (Sweden).
Rikard Windh, COO
Rikard was also a co-founder of Combain and leads the sales and business development in Combain Mobile AB. Prior to Combain, Rikard has experience from global sales management in Teleca (Sweden and Greater China) and Obigo AB as well as programming experience.
Mats Lindoff, Executive Business Advisor
Current:
Board Member at Enea AB
Board member at Precise Biometrics AB
Board Member at Invoice Finance AB
Owner Lindoff Technology AB
Past:
CTO at Zenterio AB
Owner EMA Technology
Board member at Scalado
Board Member at TAT
Innovation Director and CEO LUAB at Lunds Universitet
CTO at Sony Ericsson
CEO at C Technologies
VP at Ericsson