Butlr
Burlingame, US · Founded 2019 · 94 employees on LinkedIn · 13 known investors
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Butlr Care uses ceiling-mounted thermal sensors to monitor seniors and detect events like falls or changes in gait and activity without cameras or wearables, sending alerts and behavioral insights to care staff via an API. It serves senior care providers and caregivers with anonymous, privacy-focused occupancy and health monitoring.
Also known as Butlr Technologies
Founders & leadership
Butlr was founded in 2019 by Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng.
Board
Investors · 13
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$53M disclosed across 3 of 4 rounds · 2021–2024
▶$7.3MraisedMay 2025 · 9 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Seth LevineDirector
- Honghao DengExecutive Officer, Director
- Raymond Stuart StataDirector
- Offering amount
- $9.3M
- Amount sold
- $7.3M
- First sale
- Dec 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$38.2MraisedAug 2024 · 37 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Raymond Stuart StataDirector
- Seth LevineDirector
- Honghao DengExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $38.2M
- Amount sold
- $38.2M
- First sale
- Aug 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$7.4MraisedMay 2021 · 33 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Honghao DengExecutive Officer, Director
- Naimish PatelDirector
- Offering amount
- $7.9M
- Amount sold
- $7.4M
- First sale
- Apr 2021
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2019
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Butlr operates a sensing platform built around wireless, camera-free thermal occupancy sensors and an open API. The company packages the same underlying hardware and data platform into three solutions: Workplace, which converts anonymous occupancy data into decisions about space, energy, operations, and employee experience; Care, which gives care teams continuous, camera-free and wearable-free monitoring intended to flag changes in resident activity while preserving dignity; and Data Center, which applies continuous thermal monitoring across the power path to detect overheating connections between periodic thermal scans.
The company positions the sensors as anonymous by design, stating they are physically incapable of capturing faces, identities, or personally identifiable information. The sensors are wireless and are described as installing without cabling or construction, targeting retrofits, phased deployments, and multi-building rollouts. Butlr also publishes research and reports on office space and utilization topics, including a "Beyond Occupancy: The State of Office Space 2026" report and commentary on the relationship between office costs, space utilization data, and workforce productivity.
Business model
Butlr provides sensor hardware combined with a data platform and open API, sold to enterprises and delivered through both direct engagement (demo requests for products and services) and partner integrations that pull Butlr data and alerts into third-party software.
Traction
Publicly named customers and partners include Snowflake, Georgia Pacific's GP PRO, Lendlease Podium, Notify Nurse Call, and 9Solutions, with Snowflake describing use of the data for space repurposing and smart cleaning schedules and Lendlease Podium relying on Butlr for space occupancy metrics in its Podium Property Insights offering.
Latest developments
In March 2026 Butlr announced a partnership with Disruptive Technologies for privacy-first building intelligence, and in July 2026 it launched smart cleaning technology for commercial offices. During 2026 the company also published research on office costs and space utilization data, including findings that four out of five commercial real estate and workplace executives lack the data needed to lower office costs.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Butlr markets itself as an AI platform for intelligent spaces spanning workplace, care, and data center sensing, differentiating on hardware-level anonymity versus camera-based and wearable alternatives. Partners cite its thermal approach as more reliable, scalable, and accurate than other technologies they have evaluated.
Privacy is presented as a property of the hardware rather than a software policy, since the thermal sensors cannot record images or identities. Additional stated differentiators are rapid wireless installation without construction and a platform that scales from a single floor to a global real estate portfolio while supporting multiple use cases through one sensor and API.
Technology
Ceiling-deployable thermal occupancy sensors that detect people and heat signatures without cameras, paired with a platform and open API. The sensors are wireless, require no cabling or construction to install, and by design cannot capture faces or personally identifiable information. In the data center use case the same thermal sensing is applied continuously to power-path connections to detect overheating.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales via demo requests, supported by content such as occupancy and office-cost research reports, alongside channel and technology partnerships with building, nurse call, and facility management vendors including Georgia Pacific's GP PRO (KOLO system), Lendlease Podium, Notify Nurse Call, 9Solutions, and Disruptive Technologies.
Enterprise workplace and corporate real estate teams, higher education institutions, laboratories, senior living and care providers, data center operators, and technology partners integrating occupancy data into their own products.
Geography
The company states it serves customers and partners worldwide, with its contact form covering a global list of countries and regions; named references include US-based Snowflake and Georgia Pacific, Australia-linked Lendlease Podium, and Finland-based 9Solutions.
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3 people who came through Butlr went on to found or lead other companies.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsButlr announced smart cleaning technology aimed at commercial office environments.
Butlr and Disruptive Technologies announced a partnership to deliver privacy-first building intelligence.
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In the news
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- Butlrbutlr.io · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Butlr do?
- Butlr sells camera-free thermal occupancy sensors and an API platform for workplace, senior care, and data center monitoring.
- Who founded Butlr?
- Butlr was founded by Honghao Deng, Jiani Zeng in 2019.
- Who are Butlr's investors?
- Butlr's investors include 1Flourish Capital, Founder Collective, Foundry, Hyperplane Venture Capital, Open Network Lab, Particle, Primetime Partners, SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) and 5 more.
- How much funding has Butlr raised?
- Butlr has disclosed $53M raised across 3 of its 4 known rounds.
- Where is Butlr headquartered?
- Butlr is headquartered in Burlingame, US.