About
Founded among the pine forests of Norway at 59° North to make sense of a world in motion.
Created through a management buyout of Unacast's Aggregated Location Insights business and team, Pine59 is an independent company led by former members of Unacast's leadership team and dedicated exclusively to statistical location insights.
Pine59 helps you understand how places and populations change and perform through trusted statistics that reveal collective patterns.
We transform activity, visitation and movement into reliable measures, trends and behavioral insights across locations, neighborhoods, cities and infrastructure.
The result is location insights built for analytics, products and AI systems.
The founders
Tor Åge Ballo
Co-founder
Tor Åge has been with Unacast for close to a decade, leading engineering teams across the US and Europe as CTO and part of the management team.
Thomas Walle
Co-founder
Thomas was one of the original founders of Unacast over a decade ago, filling the role of both CEO and President and leading innovation projects across the company as part of the management team.
Kjartan Slette
Co-founder
Kjartan was one of the original founders of Unacast over a decade ago. At Unacast he led the European offering and the Turbine product suite as COO and General Manager, and part of the management team.
Collective, not individual
Built on statistics, by design.
Statistical insights about places and populations, not people.
Our statistics make it easy to understand how cities are used, so they can be made better — whether you run a store, grow a brand, own a building or shape the city itself.
Designed for places
Pine59 measures how places and populations change through collective patterns, never individual behavior.
Aggregated by design
Signals are aggregated before they reach Pine59, and every figure reflects a group of people, never one.
Clean and comparable
Filtered, validated and modeled into stable statistics you can build decisions and products on.
Privacy by architecture
GDPR and CCPA compliance is built into the operating model, so aggregated data keeps working as rules evolve.
Turn location insights into competitive advantage
Discover how Pine59 can power your analytics, products and AI with statistical insights about places and populations.