Swift Navigation
Component
Centimeter-accurate GNSS: Piksi/Duro receivers plus Skylark cloud RTK corrections, sold into automotive ADAS, robotics and mapping.
Swift Navigation sells centimeter-accurate satellite positioning as a product, not a science project: GNSS receiver modules (Piksi and Duro families), the Starling positioning engine, and Skylark, a cloud RTK correction service that removes the need to install local base stations or stitch together regional networks. A proprietary atmospheric model holds accuracy over longer baselines, which is what makes continent-scale deployment economic. The company targets automotive (ASIL-certified absolute positioning and sensor fusion for ADAS and autonomy), robotics and autonomy fleets, surveying and mapping, agriculture and last-mile logistics. Swift's origin was building its own low-cost high-precision GPS because nothing on the market met airborne-wind-turbine requirements.
Research mapping
Physical AI / Connectivity, RF & Positioning (L6) / Component
Evidence boundary
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What makes it defensible
Skylark's cloud RTK with a proprietary atmospheric model — centimeter accuracy at continental baselines, which removes the per-site base-station cost that gates mass-market precise positioning.
Position in the stack: Positioning layer: supplies the absolute-localisation signal that ADAS, autonomy and robotics stacks consume, sitting between GNSS constellations and the vehicle/robot integrator.
Who buys it
Founding team
Timothy Harris — Co-founder & CEO — Third co-founder and CEO, brought on in 2013 as the company moved out of Santa Cruz into San Francisco
Fergus Noble — Co-founder & CTO — Met Beighley at Joby Energy working on airborne wind turbines; began building the RTK receiver with him in a Santa Cruz barn in 2012
Colin Beighley — Co-founder — Joby Energy engineer; co-developed the original low-cost high-precision GPS prototype with Noble
SourceFinancing detail
- Last round
- Series D
Investors: SK Inc., Potentum Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Eclipse Ventures, EPIQ Capital Group, TELUS Ventures
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