Navenio builds an indoor location and AI tasking platform that uses only a smartphone’s sensors and a fusion of four technologies to deliver real-time location awareness of patients, staff and equipment. Its ‘Intelligent Location and Workforce Solutions’ combine mapping, route optimisation and a tasking engine to automate orchestration of patient care and resource allocation. The platform surfaces actionable insights such as over- or under-utilization of staff and equipment to improve operational efficiency and revenue opportunities. Navenio cites customer outcomes including a 66% increase in portering efficiency and improved patient flow at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The company was spun out of the University of Oxford in 2015 and has an established team of more than 60 people. It is certified or compliant with Cyber Essentials Plus, GDPR, HIPAA and the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit. Navenio develops infrastructure-free indoor location technology that uses only smartphone sensors, fusing four technologies to provide GPS-equivalent positioning inside buildings. Its platform powers apps and platforms across healthcare and other verticals and it has partnerships with health systems, facilities management operators, and HERE Technologies. The company says its tools can increase workplace productivity by up to 100%, helping maximise patient flow in departments such as imaging and logistics. Navenio was spun out of the University of Oxford in 2015 and has an established team of more than 60 people. It holds Cyber Essentials Plus certification and is GDPR, HIPAA and NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit compliant. The recent funding will be used to accelerate US expansion and continued domestic growth while the company builds a nationally scalable evidence base supported by recent NHSX funding. Navenio is an Oxford-based healthcare scale-up that builds location-based technology to optimise hospital workflows. Its system has been shown to double the throughput of hospital teams by prioritising tasks for individual staff. The company focuses on improving patient flow within hospitals and easing operational pressures. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Navenio is applying its technology to help hospitals prepare and manage rising case loads. The firm recently secured targeted public funding to support these efforts and continue deployment across UK hospitals. Navenio builds an AI-powered indoor localization platform that uses smartphone sensors, sensor fusion, and probabilistic map-matching to locate people in multi-floor buildings where GPS fails. Its core technology leverages pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) from accelerometers and magnetometers plus ambient signal maps derived from Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth. The system can be deployed on-device or in the cloud, integrates with third-party apps, and Navenio also provides its own app to expose the location engine. The company is developing crowdsourced auto-mapping (piloting in two U.K. projects) to generate floor plans from user movements and automatically adapts to changes in radio signals. Navenio is currently focused on healthcare, with 13 hospital sites in the U.K. under contract and use cases including locating cleaners and porters, routing staff, and tracking patients during transport. Founded in 2015 as a University of Oxford spinout, the company raised £9 million ($11 million) in Series A funding to grow its commercial footprint and support international expansion.

Total raised

$30M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Sep 2023