Wherobots is a serverless Spatial Intelligence Cloud developed by the original creators of Apache Sedona (Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu). The platform enables high-performance geospatial ETL, analytics, and computer vision at planetary scale, with unified support for vector and raster data accessible via SQL, Python, and Java/Scala. Wherobots says customers can run spatial workloads up to 20x faster than modern cloud analytics engines, lowering cost and speeding product development. It targets industries including insurance, environmental, transportation, logistics, supply chain, and agriculture and is used alongside Apache Sedona by enterprises such as Amazon, NVIDIA, Mercedes Benz, and others. Apache Sedona, incubated by the founders and compatible with Wherobots, is growing 150% YoY with nearly 40M downloads. The company has made its service available on the AWS Marketplace and is positioning the funding to accelerate product development and go-to-market expansion. Wherobots offers a spatial compute and AI engine that lets users develop geospatial analytics applications and deploy them with major cloud data services. Its product uses the same API as Apache Sedona but adds faster spatial processing, a spatial data usage dashboard and other enterprise features. The founders, Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu, previously launched Apache Sedona in 2015 and incorporated Wherobots in June 2022 to commercialize an enterprise-focused platform. The company positions itself as a fully managed, fully provisioned, scalable cloud data platform for spatial analytics and AI, claiming better speed and cloud efficiency than Apache Sedona. Wherobots has released an MVP for beta testing and targets industries including insurance, fleet management and automotive, agriculture, and real estate. The team currently comprises seven full-time employees and three interns and is in a building phase focused on product development and adoption.

Total raised

$27M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Nov 2024