Keeper is building an IoT-enabled network for short-term storage in urban spaces, beginning with luggage. We are based in Berlin.
A city is full of people carrying something they do not want to carry: a guest who checked out at eleven with a train at nine, someone straight off a flight, someone at a festival who paid for a taxi just to put a bag down.
The options today are thin. Hand a bag to a shop employee, or find a coin-operated station locker and pay for a block of hours you may not need. Neither is connected to anything, so you cannot see what is available before you walk there, and you cannot pay for only the time you used.
Founded and ran BennyBoy Kicks, sourcing and importing from Chinese manufacturers, and built an audience of roughly a million viewers with 600 or more concurrent on livestreams. At LUQOM Asia he worked on supplier QA and CE/EU compliance for hardware shipped into Europe. He covers manufacturing, audience and hardware compliance.
Wrote his bachelor's thesis on smart lockers and then built locker systems professionally, including H&M retail deployments and event and festival installations. More than 20 hardware projects over six years, spanning mechanics, embedded and software. He covers the locker hardware itself.
Built payment infrastructure for ZibaPay/TransactPay, and an offline-first platform for Boston College/FXB Rwanda handling more than 70,000 records. He covers payments, and software that keeps working when the network does not.