If you’ve ever entered a company’s office as a visitor or contractor, you

probably know the routine: check in with a receptionist, figure out who invited
you, print out a badge and get on your merry way. Brussels, Belgium- and New
York-based Proxyclick aims to streamline this process, while also helping
businesses keep their people and assets secure. As the company announced
today, it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Five Elms Capital,
together with previous investor Join Capital.
In total, Proxyclick says it’s systems have now been used to register over 30
million visitors in 7,000 locations around the world. In the UK alone, over 1,000
locations use the company’s tools. Current customers include L’Oreal,
Vodafone, Revolut, PepsiCo and Airbnb, as well as a number of other Fortune
500 firms.
Gregory Blondeau, founder and CEO of Proxyclick, stresses that the company
believes that paper logbooks, which are still in use in many companies, are
simply not an acceptable solution anymore, not in the least because that record
is often permanent and visible to other visitors.
“We all agree it is not acceptable to have those paper logbooks at the entrance
where everyone can see previous visitors,” he said. “It is also not normal for
companies to store visitors’ digital data indefinitely. We already propose
automatic data deletion in order to respect visitor privacy. In a few weeks, we’ll
enable companies to delete sensitive data such as visitor photos sooner than
other data. Security should not be an excuse to exploit or hold visitor data
longer than required.”
What also makes Proxyclick stand out from similar solutions is that
it integrates with a lot of existing systems for access control (including C-
Cure and Lenel systems). With that, users can ensure that a visitor only has
access to specific parts of a building, too.
In addition, though, it also supports existing meeting rooms, calendaring and
parking systems and integrates with Wi-Fi credentialing tools so your visitors
don’t have to keep asking for the password to get online.
Like similar systems, Proxyclick provides businesses with a tablet-based sign-in
service that also allows them to get consent and NDA signatures right during
the sign-in process. If necessary, the system can also compare the photos it
takes to print out badges with those on a government-issued ID to ensure your
visitors are who they say they are.
Blondeau noted that the whole industry is changing, too. “Visitor management
is becoming mainstream, it is transitioning from a local, office-related subject
handled by facility managers to a global, security and privacy driven priority
handled by Chief Information Security Officers. Scope, decision drivers and key
people involved are not the same as in the early days,” he said.
It’s no surprise then that the company plans to use the new funding to
accelerate its roadmap. Specifically, it’s looking to integrate its solution with
more third-party systems with a focus on physical security features and facial
recognition, as well as additional new enterprise features.