SmartRunner went online in 2007 as the students Rolf Kluge and Roman Belter’s free time
project. Before they ranked world’s fourth place as true pioneers in the field of
location-based services at the 2005 Microsoft Imagine Cup in Japan presenting a concept
combining GPS and cell phones. Since that time SmartRunner has become the leading GPS
tracking community – also called Geotracking community - in Germany. More than 150 000 users
have already published more than 300 000 tracks adding hundreds more every day.
In October 2009, we founded Smartrunner GmbH as proper businesses so we’re able to provide
you with new features even faster and furthermore offer the best training and community
tool in GEO-Tracking. With Alexander Trommen we’ve brought a long-time mobile-expert on
board also helping us with internationalization. At the same Daniel Wild (Tiburon business
development GmbH) and Roland Fassnauer (Fadelia Ltd.) joined us as two of the most
successful business angels in Germany, already having brought out companies such as XING,
StudiVZ, joinr, AdScale or Intershop and Pixaco / HPSnapfish. By now in the Leipzig office
6 employees are working on the daily improvement of SmartRunner.
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Rolf
Spent an entire year travelling in Australia performing an endurance test on SmartRunner. | |  | |
Roman
Uncontested stroller pushing world champion. |
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Alexander
Missed Oktoberfest due to launching Smartrunner GmbH. | |  | |
Thomas
A real SmartRunner: a god on keyboard and sports (he says). |