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SA Visitor & Workplace Management startup
WIZZPASS
ACQUIRED BY US'S FM:SYSTEMS
"We see great potential to jointly drive innovation and market expansion with FM:Systems, continuing to bring an incomparable full realm of unique digital workplace solutions to market together," said Hornby. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, FM:Systems provides a strategic, end-to-end solution suite that transforms the digital workplace into a self-sustaining ecosystem and establishes a rich foundation of workplace data that informs decisions as the organisation grows and times change. Intuitive, userfriendly interfaces create a fluid workplace experience in the office, at home or anywhere else in the world an employee might choose to work.
South African visitor and workplace management startup WizzPass was in June acquired by US digital workplace solutions provider FM:Systems for an undisclosed amount
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ohannesburg-based WizzPass was founded in 2015 by Ulrich Stark and Bradley Hornby. The startup specialises in improving the often manual and insecure processes and systems involved with traditional facility visitor management. WizzPass is an alumnus of both Techstars Cape Town (2016) and the Grindstone Accelerator (2019/20) that helped advance its growth journey. The WizzPass Visitor Management System revolutionises the experience, security, convenience and safety of visitors to offices and other buildings, creating improved communications and interactions between businesses and their visitors, be they contractors, suppliers, employees or others. WizzPass is trusted by blue-chip companies at over 300 locations, across 4 continents, and has processed over 10 million secure events.
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“ We are excited to
build on our strategy of providing comprehensive digital workplace solutions with the addition of WizzPass' leading visitor management technologies
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"It is with great enthusiasm that we join forces with an outstanding company like FM:Systems," said Stark, co-founder of WizzPass. "This will facilitate exactly the kind of valuable workplace solution combination our customers have been asking for."
FM:Systems said in a statement that the WizzPass acquisition increases the already commanding breadth of the FM:Systems portfolio of products, ensuring that clients can continue to tackle the most daunting real estate and facilities challenges with a single, trusted vendor. "We are excited to build on our strategy of providing comprehensive digital workplace solutions with the addition of WizzPass' leading visitor management technologies," said Kurt von Koch, CEO of FM:Systems. "This acquisition deepens our offerings in visitor management, which is an important aspect of delivering productive, safe, and enriched workplace experiences. With customers that include many marquee companies, WizzPass is recognised as a leader across the industry. We look forward to welcoming and continuing to support existing WizzPass customers as part of the FM:Systems family."
