Imagine leaving your home and locking your door, and unlocking your bicycle or boarding the metro, all with the same digital key. Then you enter your office building, buy a cup of coffee at the canteen, put your belongings in a locker and find an available hot desk — again, using the same, single key or data carrier. At lunchtime, you might go workout at the gym, and later that evening, maybe you’ll visit a museum — all the while, still using the same data carrier to unlock each experience for you.

That's what it's like to spend a day with Gantner, an Austria-based tech-manufacturing company offering cashless payment, access control, ticketing, and software solutions.

Ardian invested in 2016, and since then, Gantner has become a technology leader in Europe by doubling its revenues and its employees. In this episode, we speak to Elmar Hartmann, Gantner’s CEO, about how a company that started as a small electronic repair business has become a one-stop solution shop for clients around the world across the fitness, public attraction, education, and corporate sectors. It all started in 2004, with a game-changing moment for the company...

Entrepreneurial Journeys is a podcast for anyone curious about where growth is happening around the world. Here we speak with the people behind innovative companies building the future.

Entrepreneurial Journeys is a podcast hosted by Portia Crowe and produced by Louie Creative for Ardian.

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