77 Best Navigation and Mapping Startups to Watch in 2023

77 Navigation and Mapping Startups to Watch (and Work for) in 2023

Navigation and Mapping's tech sector is booming. This year’s list of the best 77 Navigation and Mapping tech startups is an eclectic mix of hyper-growth scaleups, small creative startups and everything in between.

Curated by @gonsanchezs

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The last update was made on March 19, 2023.


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what3words

What3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.

London   251 to 500   $63 Million   $19 Million  

Plug and Play Spain  

B2B   SAAS  

NavVis

NavVis enables service providers and enterprises to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins.

Munich   251 to 500   $96 Million   $28 Million  

Homesearch

Homesearch is a technology company at the forefront of property data that specializes in analytics machine learning.

London   101 to 250   $6.8 Million   $6.8 Million  

Octopus Ventures  

B2B   SAAS  

Zero Point Motion

Zero Point Motion uses optical sensing techniques called 'cavity optomechanics’ for chip sensors to improve navigation and stabilization.

London   11 to 50   $3.4 Million   $3.4 Million  

Verve Ventures  

B2B  

NIL Technology ApS

NIL Technology (NILT) is an optical solutions company designing, developing, and manufacturing optical elements and components

Copenhagen   51 to 100   $39 Million   $32 Million  

B2B  

Waymap

Waymap provides the navigation app that guides both indoors and outdoors.

London   11 to 50   $0   $6.1 Million  

B2C   FREEMIUM  

Canatu

Canatu develops and manufactures innovative 3D formable and stretchable films and sensors for 3D touch surfaces and heater solutions.

Helsinki   51 to 100   $70 Million   $17 Million  

B2B  

SKIPPER NDT

SKIPPER NDT developed and industrialized a contactless magnetic inspection system.

Paris   1 to 10   $2 Million   $4 Million  

B2B  

e-peas

e-peas is an innovative semiconductor company developing energy harvesting solutions to help future businesses create battery free products.

Brussels   11 to 50   $14 Million   $9.2 Million  

Partech Ventures  

B2B  

NumberEight

On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors

London   11 to 50   $3 Million   $2.3 Million  

Nauta Capital  

B2B   SAAS  

Novelda

Novelda is a sensor company specializing in nanoscale wireless low-power ultra wideband technology for high resolution impulse radar.

Oslo   51 to 100   $100 Million   $15 Million  

Investinor  

B2B  

ConstellR

ConstellR is a space tech startup with a technology that can monitor land surface temperatures from space.

Freiburg   11 to 50   $11 Million   $1.2 Million  

Lakestar   Vsquared Ventures  

Inloc Robotics

Inloc Robotics is an automatic sewer defect detection company that specializes in robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

Barcelona   1 to 10   $0   $6.1 Million  

B2B  

Meister

Meister develops and provides web-based productivity tools focusing on simplicity, usability and easy collaboration.

  101 to 250   $52 Million   $52 Million  

B2B   SAAS  

Stenon

The Soil Data Company

Potsdam   11 to 50   $27 Million   $3.9 Million  

Cherry Ventures   Atlantic Labs  

B2B   SAAS  

Qnami

Qnami develops quantum sensing technologies designed for nanoscale imaging.

Basel   11 to 50   $7.3 Million   $2.6 Million  

High-Tech Gründerfonds   Verve Ventures   Quantonation   Runa Capital  

B2B  

Neurocess

Neurocess offers services as a wearable technology product that increases the training performance and reduces the risk of injury.

London   1 to 10   $3.4 Million   $3.5 Million  

B2B   B2C  

Airthings

Airthings designs and sells digital radon detectors.

Oslo   11 to 50   $0   $6.5 Million  

B2B   B2C  

Elliptic Labs

AI Virtual Smart Sensors for the Smartphone, Laptop, IoT & Automotive markets - Heartbeat, Breathing, Gesture and Presence Detection

Oslo   51 to 100   $23 Million   $5 Million  

B2B   SAAS  

Ellona

Ellona develops environmental intelligence solutions based devices for outdoor and indoor spaces.

Toulouse   11 to 50   $6.8 Million   $6.9 Million  

M Capital Partners  

B2B  

Unacast

Unacast built the Real World Graph® and is the leading transparent and contextualized location data platform

New York   11 to 50   $51 Million   $11 Million  

Investinor  

B2B  

Inxpect

Inxpect provides radio based sensing technology for home automation, security and industrial safety.

Brescia   11 to 50   $26 Million   $21 Million  

360 Capital  

B2B  

Tractive

Tractive develops GPS tracking devices designed for dogs and cats.

Linz   101 to 250   $38 Million   $35 Million  

B2C  

Spaceti

Spaceti provides an end-to-end solution to enhance the satisfaction, productivity, and well-being of people in buildings.

Amsterdam   11 to 50   $5 Million   $3.8 Million  

B2B   SAAS  

LGN

LGN is a developer of artificial perception technology used to balance and automatically connect the AI system to the sensor array.

London   11 to 50   $2.5 Million   $2 Million  

AI Seed  

B2B   SAAS  

Focal Point Positioning

Focal Point has developed next generation navigation and positioning software for smartphones, wearables and autonomous vehicles.

Cambridge   11 to 50   $14 Million   $8.3 Million  

eLichens

eLichens is a technology startup that provides services and sensing solutions for hyper-local air quality.

Grenoble   11 to 50   $12 Million   $10 Million  

B2B  

InSpek

InSpek develops a biological and chemical monitoring systems using integrated photonics.

Paris   1 to 10   $0   $570 Thousand  

Quantonation  

B2B  

Jogo

Predict the future faces of football

Amsterdam   11 to 50   $2.2 Million   $330 Thousand  

B2B   B2C  

Airex

Airex is a smart ventilation control that builds intelligent air ventilation units using atmospheric sensors and cloud algorithms.

London   1 to 10   $740 Thousand   $640 Thousand  

B2B  

Imagimob

Imagimob has invented and developed SensorBeat, a technology for real time artificial intelligence on the edge.

Stockholm   11 to 50   $3.9 Million   $1.1 Million  

B2B  

Pilloxa

Pilloxas smart pillbox and mobile application make it easy to use medicine in a smart and safe way.

Stockholm   11 to 50   $2.2 Million   $1.3 Million  

Bonnier Ventures  

B2B   B2C  

Globhe

GLOBHE is a global drones as a service provider.

Stockholm   11 to 50   $1.9 Million   $810 Thousand  

B2B  

Provizio

Provizio is an accident prevention technology company that uses AI software and a five-dimensional sensory platform to prevent accidents.

Limerick   11 to 50   $6.2 Million   $6.2 Million  

Act Venture Capital  

B2B   SAAS  

Flusso

Flusso is in stealth mode, while developing the world's smallest flow sensor.

Cambridge   11 to 50   $5.7 Million   $5.7 Million  

Martlet Capital   Parkwalk Advisors  

B2B  

Salience Labs

Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI.

Oxford   11 to 50   $12 Million   $12 Million  

Oxford Science Enterprises   Cambridge Innovation Capital  

B2B  

German Autolabs

German Autolabs empowers mobile workers in logistics with voice assistance.

Berlin   11 to 50   $10 Million   $8 Million  

Coparion  

B2B   SAAS  

Sensire

IIOT, Wireless cloud-based temperature monitoring solutions

Joensuu   11 to 50   $6.8 Million   $6.8 Million  

B2B   SAAS  

LiveEO

LiveEO is a real-time earth observation application that makes use of the synergies of EO data and geolocation services.

Berlin   51 to 100   $28 Million  

btov Partners   MMC Ventures   DvH Ventures   Matterwave Ventures  

B2B   SAAS  

10Lines

10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions in the industry of pavement marking.

Tallinn   1 to 10   $980 Thousand   $830 Thousand  

Tera Ventures  

B2B  

Elaisian

Elaisian is a precision farming system that prevents diseases for olive groves, vineyards and almond trees.

Rome   11 to 50   $2.7 Million   $1.2 Million  

B2B  

Rokubun

Rokubun is a company developing navigation solutions for the mobile and V2X market

Barcelona   1 to 10   $56 Thousand   $650 Thousand  

B2B   SAAS  

Sensitivus Gauge

Sensitivus Gauge designs and markets software and power meter technologies equipped with optical sensors directly to the brands.

Copenhagen   1 to 10   $0   $500 Thousand  

B2B   SAAS  

Sensative

Disruptive IoT, cloud & AI technology empowering smart property owners in the digitalization of properties and industrial processes.

Lund   11 to 50   $11 Million   $2.8 Million  

Aconterra  

B2C  

QLM Technology

Quantum Light Metrology (QLM) is a Bristol, UK- based startup developing ultra-compact, high-precision quantum optical sensors.

Bristol   1 to 10   $19 Million   $4.3 Million  

B2B   SAAS  

Bikemap

Bikemap is a provider of cycling map & navigation service in the world. Mobile subscription for offline, routing, map features.

Vienna   11 to 50   $3 Million  

Ponooc  

B2C  

ReMoni

ReMoni delivers a complete system that monitors technical installations in order to avoid loss of energy and production.

  11 to 50   $1.3 Million   $2.9 Million  

B2B  

My Airgo

My AirGo develops non-invasive medical respiratory sensors designed for realtime minute ventilation and breath dynamics monitoring.

Milan   1 to 10   $0   $1.2 Million  

B2B  

tacterion

tacterion is a high-tech start-up that develops and markets tactile sensors.

Munich   1 to 10   $30 Thousand  

B2B  

Mapidea

Mapidea is a Location Analytics SaaS designed to simplify the use of spatial data inside organisations.

Lisbon   1 to 10   $550 Thousand  

UbiqiSense

At Ubiqisense we created an occupancy & footfall sensor which collects data on the way people use and interact with spaces.

Copenhagen   1 to 10   $0  

B2B  

Slingshot Simulations

Slingshot Simulations a provider of cutting-edge technologies and services.

Leeds   11 to 50   $3 Million   $970 Thousand  

B2B   SAAS  

Photon Sports

Photon Sports is a producer of an analytics setup for tracking sports activity.

Skellefteå   1 to 10   $1 Million   $1 Million  

B2B   SAAS  

Alerion

Alerion develops intelligent drones for fully autonomous and automated real-time infrastructure inspections.

San Sebastian   11 to 50   $2.2 Million   $1.3 Million  

EASO Ventures  

B2B  

Aerial Precision

Aerial Precision designs and manufactures intelligence-driven 3D sensing systems for commercial drones and mobile vehicles.

Maastricht     $760 Thousand   $770 Thousand  

B2B  

cthings.co

We develop and manufacture end-to-end 5G IoT solutions designed to uncover the hidden potential in processes and assets.

Warsaw   11 to 50   $2.8 Million   $780 Thousand  

SATUS Starter   Invento Capital  

B2B  

Compredict

We provide in-depth vehicle insights through our AI-based virtual sensors, exploiting signals from sensors already available on board.

Frankfurt   11 to 50   $5.7 Million  

B2B   SAAS  

Tribosonics

Tribosonics is a transformational technology business taking its unique sensing technologies into uncharted and valuable territories.

Sheffield   11 to 50   $3.3 Million   $1.9 Million  

B2B  

Collactivate

Collactivate offers smart digital sensors to monitor spaces and report incidents for increased security in problematic housing areas.

Jämtland   1 to 10   $460 Thousand   $470 Thousand  

Almi Invest  

B2B   SAAS  

Viqal

Customer analytics for physical spaces. Enabling staff and personnel.

Utrecht   1 to 10   $560 Thousand   $290 Thousand  

B2B   SAAS  

Matter Industries

Matter Industries is a provider of sensor networks for real time remote monitoring of large infrastructure assets.

Johannesburg     $0   $500 Thousand  

B2B  

Core Sensing

Core Sensing specialises in the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of measurement data and smart sensors inside mechanical components.

Frankfurt   11 to 50   $4.3 Million  

B2B  

Diafir

DIAFIR develops, manufactures and markets fast biological analytical tools based upon unique infra red fiber sensor technology.

Rennes   1 to 10   $1.7 Million   $980 Thousand  

B2B  

Syntony GNSS

Syntony GNSS is a developer of a software based GNSS location technology designed to shape the future of navigation.

Toulouse   11 to 50   $7.9 Million  

Grapheal

Embedded diagnostics, combining biosensing with connectivity

Grenoble   1 to 10   $2.3 Million  

B2B  

SentiSystems

SenTiSystems enables technology for navigation and sensor fusion in autonomous platforms.

Trondheim   1 to 10   $0   $1.6 Million  

B2B  

Satelligence

Satelligence specializes in remote sensing, natural resource management, and tracking deforestation with satellite data analytics.

Utrecht   11 to 50   $2.3 Million  

4impact  

B2B   SAAS  

ArgusEye

ArgusEye is a biotechnology company that provides sensor solutions for real-time detection of biological systems and processes.

Linköping   1 to 10   $0  

Almi Invest   EIR Ventures  

B2B  

QDI Systems

QDI systems is a high-tech start-up, developing imaging devices based on quantum dots for medical X-ray applications.

Groningen   1 to 10   $1.4 Million  

Maki.vc  

B2B   SAAS  

Vicotee

Vicotee provides hardware solutions for real-time sensor data monitoring.

  1 to 10   $0   $1.9 Million  

B2B  

El-Watch

El-Watch develops and produces electronics and wireless communications.

  11 to 50   $0   $1.7 Million  

B2B  

NVMdurance

NVMdurance is accelerating the adoption of 3D NAND.

Limerick   11 to 50   $3.6 Million  

Unicontrol

Unicontrol is a developer of a 3D machine control system for all type of excavators.

Odense   11 to 50   $970 Thousand  

B2B  

vialytics

vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities.

Stuttgart   11 to 50   $0  

Statkraft Ventures  

B2B   SAAS  

My Policy

My Policy provides car insurance services using telematics smart box system.

  11 to 50   $0  

B2B  

Mapwize

Mapwize is the indoor mapping platform for the creation of new digital services inside buildings and events.

Lille   11 to 50   $1.4 Million  

WeGlad

WeGlad develops an application for safe and personalized mobility, starting from people with disabilities.

Turin   1 to 10   $120 Thousand  

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