Bee Maps

What Bee Maps does

Bee Maps (legally Hivemapper Inc., rebranded October 2025) operates a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) that crowdsources fresh, high-definition map and Physical AI data through a distributed fleet of purpose-built Bee dashcams. The 4th-generation Bee camera is a vertically integrated sensor package combining a Sony IMX577 12.3MP sensor capturing 4K video at 30fps, 142° horizontal FOV, stereo depth cameras with a 13cm baseline, dual-band L1/L5 GNSS for lane-level positioning, a 6-axis IMU at up to 100Hz, a 5.1 TOPS NPU for on-device inference, 64GB of storage, and LTE plus WiFi connectivity. On-device ML models detect approximately 100 road feature classes and eight categories of driving events, with privacy-by-design face and license-plate blurring applied before upload. The contributor network has accumulated 754 million total kilometers mapped, 22 million unique kilometers, and 37% global road coverage across more than 100 countries, with the company claiming a growth rate five times faster than Google Street View.

The commercial product surface spans four consumption-based data APIs (Street Level Imagery at $0.005/image, AI Event Videos at $6/video, Road Detections at $3 per 1,000 detections, and Burst on-demand mapping at $1/location delivered), a $19/month Bee Membership that bundles a Bee LTE camera with a Helium Mobile data plan, the Beekeeper fleet management platform at $19 per vehicle per month, the programmable Bee Edge AI runtime for deploying custom Python ML models OTA to the device fleet, and the Almanac AI Assistant for natural-language fleet queries. Distribution combines self-serve developer onboarding—$20 free credits, an interactive API Playground, and comprehensive documentation—with direct enterprise licensing. Named customers include HERE Technologies, Lyft, Mapbox, TomTom, Trimble, NBC Universal, Volkswagen ADMT, and 4M Analytics, spanning mapping platforms, autonomous vehicle development, rideshare, media, and utility infrastructure. The company closed a $32 million funding round in October 2025 from Pantera Capital, LDA Capital, Borderless Capital, and Ajna Capital, and operates with a disclosed headcount of 1–10 employees.

Name

Bee Maps

Legal name

Hivemapper Inc.

Website

https://beemaps.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bee Maps operates a DePIN that crowdsources fresh HD map and Physical AI data through purpose-built dashcams, selling four data APIs plus a $19/month membership, Beekeeper fleet platform, and programmable Bee Edge AI runtime to mapmakers, automotive, and developer customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mapping and geospatial data platform

akta.pro primary industry

Consumer Navigation & Turn-by-Turn Apps (BPAMANAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Marketplace & On-Demand Platform Recommendations (rideshare, delivery, services) (HDAAAGAK)

Keywords

• Crowdsourced HD mapping
• Street-level imagery API
• DePIN mapping network
• Physical AI data
• Dashcam mapping hardware

Headquarters

HQ city

Torino

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Data API Consumption: Usage-based pricing for Street Level Imagery ($0.005/image), AI Event Videos ($6/video), Road Detections ($3/1K detections), and Burst mapping ($1/location). Customers add funds to API balance and pay per query.
2. Bee Membership Subscription: $19/month subscription includes Bee camera hardware, LTE data plan via Helium Mobile, and platform access. Available in US and Puerto Rico for individual contributors and fleets.
3. Fleet Management (Beekeeper): $19/month per vehicle for commercial fleet operators. Includes live tracking, AI safety events, remote video retrieval, trip history, driver management. No contracts, no onboarding team required.
4. Bee Edge AI Deployment: Own Devices: $15/device/month includes 1GB data, $3/GB overage. Network Devices: $0.02/km includes 5MB/km, $0.05/10MB overage. For custom AI workload deployment on Bee cameras.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bee Maps operates a DePIN mapping platform that crowdsources fresh street-level imagery and road-feature data through purpose-built Bee dashcams mounted by individual contributors, then resells the data via consumption-based APIs (Street Level Imagery, AI Event Videos, Road Detections, Burst). It also sells the camera hardware and offers Bee Membership ($19/month) and Beekeeper fleet management ($19/vehicle/month), plus Bee Edge AI for deploying custom on-device ML workloads.

Product overview

Bee Maps is a platform-plus-products architecture offering physical AI data infrastructure. The core is the Bee camera hardware (purpose-built dashcam with 12.3MP sensor, GNSS, IMU, and 5.1 TOPS NPU for edge AI). The platform includes fleet management (Beekeeper), AI Assistant (Almanac), and developer tools (API Playground). Data products include four APIs: Street Level Imagery API, AI Event Videos API, Road Detections API, and Burst (On-Demand Mapping) API. Bee Edge AI enables custom AI workloads on camera hardware. The company operates a DePIN model with distributed contributors and enterprise customers including HERE Technologies, Lyft, NBC Universal, Mapbox, and Volkswagen.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Beekeeper: Fleet management software platform that enables fleet owners to track vehicles, monitor driver behavior, review trip history, and access AI-powered driving event detection.

Products and services

• Bee Camera Purpose-built mapping-grade dashcam capturing 4K video, stereo depth, lane-level GNSS, and inertial data with on-device AI processing. Sold to individual contributors and fleets to crowdsource map data.
• Bee Membership $19/month subscription that bundles the Bee LTE device, LTE data plan via Helium Mobile, and platform access for individual contributors and fleets in the US and Puerto Rico.
• Bee LTE Globally available LTE-enabled variant of the Bee camera for real-time uploads while driving, with bring-your-own-SIM support across major carriers.
• Street Level Imagery API REST API returning geolocated street-level frames captured by Bee dashcams, with timestamps, GPS, IMU data, and image dimensions, billed at $0.005 per image.
• AI Event Videos API API for accessing AI-detected driving event video clips with synchronized GNSS and IMU data, billed at $6 per video event.
• Road Detections API API for ML-detected road features including speed limits, stop signs, turn restrictions, fire hydrants, lane markings, traffic lights, and highway signs, billed at $3 per 1,000 detections.
• Burst (On-Demand Mapping) API API that triggers push notifications to nearby Bee drivers to capture fresh imagery of a specified area, billed at $1 per delivered location.
• Bee Edge AI Developer platform for deploying custom Python AI modules OTA to Bee cameras, running inference on the 5.1 TOPS NPU and streaming results back to developer clouds, priced at $15/device/month or $0.02/km.
• Beekeeper (Fleet Management) Fleet management software for commercial fleet operators providing live GPS tracking, AI driving event detection, remote video retrieval, trip history, and driver management at $19/vehicle/month.
• API Playground Interactive developer tool that lets users draw geometries on a map, send requests to all four Bee data APIs, and view results live with product-specific forms and curl commands.
• Bee Maps Data API Unified REST API gateway exposing street-level imagery, map features, AI event videos, and burst mapping with consumption-based pricing and GeoJSON geometry queries.
• AI Assistant (Almanac) Natural language AI assistant that answers fleet operations questions with formatted tables, charts, map feature layers, and AI event visualization.

Quantifiable outcome

• 37% of world roads mapped with fresh data refreshed in days
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability9 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Helium MobilecoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides LTE data plan for Bee Membership subscribers ($19/month includes device, data, and platform access). Data plan is pre-installed and pre-activated on Membership devices. Available in US and Puerto Rico.
• Volkswagen ADMTflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerVolkswagen Group of America's autonomous vehicle testing subsidiary testing Bee Maps' mapping and PUDO precision capabilities for autonomous mobility applications. Strategic pilot for automotive integration.
• 4M AnalyticsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAI-powered utility mapping company using Bee Maps' road-level imagery to strengthen subsurface models for U.S. infrastructure projects. Example of data product integration partner.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• TomTom: TomTom is a global navigation and mapping company providing maps, traffic, and location services to automotive and enterprise customers. TomTom partners with Bee Maps for map data while also operating competing street-level data collection efforts.
• Helium (Nova Labs): Helium is the original DePIN wireless network and the LTE connectivity provider powering Bee Membership. It is the closest architectural peer — a token-incentivized, decentralized physical infrastructure network — and shares the same crypto-investor base (Pantera, Borderless, etc.).
• OpenStreetMap (OSM): OpenStreetMap is the largest open crowdsourced mapping project. Like Bee Maps, it relies on distributed contributors; unlike Bee Maps, OSM is volunteer-driven, free, and focused on vector map features rather than fresh street-level imagery for Physical AI.
• Mapbox: Mapbox is a developer-focused mapping platform that provides APIs for maps, navigation, and location services — directly comparable to Bee Maps' data API offering. Bee Maps is actually a data supplier to Mapbox, but both compete for the same enterprise mapping-data wallet and developer mindshare.
• HERE Technologies: HERE Technologies is one of the largest digital map and location data providers serving automotive and enterprise customers. HERE is both a Bee Maps customer (uses Bee imagery for map updates) and a direct competitor in the street-level imagery and map features market.

Broad incumbents

• Geotab: Geotab is a large telematics and fleet management platform with millions of connected vehicles. It is comparable to Beekeeper's fleet offering and also competes as a source of large-scale vehicle telematics data that could feed AV mapping.
• Samsara: Samsara is a leading IoT fleet management platform with dashcam hardware, AI safety events, and telematics for commercial fleets. Beekeeper competes head-to-head with Samsara at $19/vehicle/month, though Samsara has vastly deeper enterprise sales coverage.
• Waze: Waze (owned by Google) pioneered crowdsourced navigation, traffic, and road data from consumer drivers. It is comparable to Bee Maps' contributor-network model but focuses on driver-experience navigation rather than raw map-data licensing for AI and AV.
• Mobileye: Mobileye builds AV mapping and computer vision technology used by major automakers, leveraging crowdsourced REM data from millions of vehicles. It represents the incumbent crowdsourced-AV-mapping approach that Bee Maps' DePIN model competes with for autonomous vehicle training data.
• Google Street View / Google Maps Platform: Google Street View is the dominant centralized street-level imagery and mapping platform with global coverage. Bee Maps benchmarks itself directly against Google Street View (claiming 5x faster growth), and Google's Cloud-based mapping APIs are an alternative enterprise data source.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/trybeemaps
• GitHubgithub.com/Hivemapper/bee-plugins
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@bee-camera
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bee-maps

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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