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Indoor climbing tracking startup, Lizcore, sharpens its focus on safety as it pulls in pre-seed


Indoor climbing is a tricky sport to track. That's why Spanish startup Lizcore caught TechCrunch's eye at MWC earlier this year. The team

The system that Lizcore has devised only asks the climber to wear a lightweight fabric NFC bracelet to track their sport, meaning they don’t need to climb with their mobile or another chunky device. They also recently signed their first local customer: a climbing gym called Drac de Pedra in the Catalan town of Rubí, where they held a demo event of the route tracking tech earlier this month. But the thing is, it’s not that we expect that we will arrive at 100% level of accuracy — we mean that we will provide different stages and different layers of security,” said Juan, pointing back to the credentialing element of the system as another big piece of the puzzle.

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