What Wherobots Inc. does

Wherobots Inc. is a venture-backed spatial intelligence cloud platform founded in June 2022 by Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu, the original creators of Apache Sedona. The company provides a distributed spatial compute platform (WherobotsDB) that delivers 300+ spatial functions for vector and raster data, native Spark SQL and Python (Sedona) interfaces, lakehouse-native I/O via the Havasu format on Apache Iceberg, and native connectors to AWS S3, AWS Glue, and Databricks Unity Catalog. Adjacent products include RasterFlow (perception-as-a-service for satellite and aerial imagery, including a SAM3-based text-prompted segmentation integration launched in December 2025), a Spatial AI Coding Assistant with an MCP server that exposes the spatial catalog to AI agents in VS Code, Claude Code, and OpenCode, and an Open Data Catalog (the Wherobots Hub) pre-loaded with Overture Maps Foundation data including 2.6B+ buildings.

The platform is offered on a Professional tier with a 30-day free trial carrying $300 in consumption credits, on AWS Marketplace for cloud-credit procurement, and via direct enterprise sales. Wherobots employs a hybrid product-led growth and enterprise field-sales motion, with a self-serve sign-up funnel for developers and named enterprise accounts across insurance (Allstate, Swiss Re, Arity, IAG), mobility and automotive (BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Amazon Last Mile, JB Hunt, TomTom, Bosch), real estate and location (Zillow, Placer.ai, Mapbox, Meta/Overture Maps), telecommunications (T-Mobile, Comcast, Naver), utilities (PG&E), agriculture (Land O'Lakes, Leaf Agriculture, SatSure), and other verticals.

The company has raised $27 million in total disclosed funding across a $5.5 million seed round in June 2023 (co-led by Wing Venture Capital and Clear Ventures) and a $21.5 million Series A in December 2024 led by Felicis with participation from existing investors and new strategic backers JetBlue Ventures and P7 Ventures. Headcount is reported at 11-50 employees and the company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Customer outcomes cited include processing time reductions from 39 days to under one day, spatial joins on millions of records for under $0.50, and Overture's 2.6B-building dataset running up to 20x faster than on traditional big data engines.

Name

Wherobots Inc.

Legal name

Wherobots Inc.

Website

https://wherobots.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wherobots Inc. is a venture-backed spatial intelligence cloud platform built by the original creators of Apache Sedona, serving data engineers, data scientists, and enterprise teams in insurance, mobility, agriculture, and government with distributed vector and raster analytics, satellite imagery AI (RasterFlow), and Spatial AI tooling for AI agents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Geospatial Analytics Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

GIS & Spatial Data Management Platforms (BPAMANAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Geospatial Platforms (BPAMANAM), Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs) (HDAEANAH)

Keywords

• Cloud geospatial analytics
• Spatial data platform
• Satellite imagery AI
• Distributed spatial computing
• Geospatial lakehouse infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Cloud Platform Subscription / Consumption: Wherobots offers a cloud platform with a Professional tier and consumption-based pricing. New subscribers receive a 30-day free trial with $300 in consumption credits. The platform is also available via AWS Marketplace for cloud marketplace procurement, implying metered/usage-based billing on cloud infrastructure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Wherobots provides a spatial intelligence cloud that delivers planetary-scale distributed geospatial analytics on a managed platform built by the creators of Apache Sedona. The offering centers on WherobotsDB (300+ spatial functions over vector and raster data), RasterFlow satellite imagery AI with SAM3 segmentation, the Spatial AI Coding Assistant and MCP server for AI agents, and the Havasu spatial Iceberg table format, delivered via a consumption-priced cloud platform with native lakehouse integrations to Databricks, AWS Glue, and AWS S3.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RasterFlow: Wherobots' enterprise-grade raster analytics platform for large-scale geospatial raster processing on cloud infrastructure.

Products and services

• Wherobots Cloud Platform Managed spatial intelligence cloud for enterprise data engineering, ML, and AI teams, providing distributed compute for vector and raster geospatial analytics, a managed Apache Sedona experience, native lakehouse integrations with Databricks Unity Catalog, AWS Glue, and AWS S3, and a Professional subscription tier with $300 free trial credits.
• RasterFlow Perception-as-a-service for satellite and aerial imagery that automates mosaicking, preprocessing, AI/ML model execution including SAM3 text-prompted segmentation, and physical-world analysis from city blocks to global scale, writing outputs to Apache Iceberg tables for consumption in Databricks and Snowflake.
• Wherobots Open Data Catalog (Hub) Pre-loaded global hub of open geospatial datasets including Overture Maps (2.6B+ buildings), ESA WorldCover, NAIP, Sentinel-2, and Microsoft Planetary Computer data, available for immediate spatial querying inside WherobotsDB without data movement.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 20x faster geospatial operations than traditional big data engines on Apache Sedona SpatialBench benchmark at Scale Factor 1000
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers29 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

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

• FeltflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 February 2025Strategic partnership to modernize the geospatial data stack by integrating Wherobots' spatial intelligence lakehouse with Felt's collaborative, browser-based mapping platform. The integration enables organizations to process petabyte-scale geospatial datasets and visualize insights without transferring data between systems. Agricultural technology company Leaf Agriculture is already using both platforms together, building products like LeafLake on Wherobots and interactive maps through Felt. The combination creates a 'SQL-to-map' workflow from Spatial SQL query to interactive, shareable map in seconds. Available to Felt Enterprise customers.
• Leaf AgricultureminorOthersLeaf Agriculture is an early customer and showcase partner using both Wherobots and Felt together. The company processes millions of acres of tractor telemetry and imagery data, building products like LeafLake on Wherobots and interactive maps through Felt. Their CEO has publicly stated that Wherobots on AWS enables them to scale to millions of acres reliably and cost-effectively.
• Fields of the World ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWherobots is partnering on the Fields of the World project to create a global map of field boundaries for managing the global food supply. The project processes satellite imagery at continental scale using RasterFlow to detect and map agricultural field boundaries. Partners include Taylor Geospatial Institute and others.
• Apache Sedona / Apache Software FoundationcoreTechnology or IntegrationWherobots was founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona. Apache Sedona (68M+ downloads) is the open-source foundation on which WherobotsDB is built. WherobotsDB is 100% code compatible with Apache Sedona workloads. The Overture Maps Foundation uses Wherobots and Apache Sedona to generate its monthly global data releases. The Apache Sedona community (Discord) is a key distribution channel for Wherobots.
• Overture Maps FoundationcoreTechnology or IntegrationOverture Maps Foundation provides global map datasets (2.6B+ buildings, places, transportation, water, land cover) that are available in the Wherobots Open Data Catalog (Wherobots Hub). The Overture Maps Foundation uses Wherobots and Apache Sedona to generate its monthly global data releases. Overture data powers critical Wherobots use cases including Spatial Graph RAG and building footprint analysis.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationWherobots is available on AWS Marketplace and integrates natively with AWS S3, AWS Glue Catalog, and other AWS services. WherobotsDB reads and writes directly to customer S3 buckets using cross-account IAM roles. For teams using AWS Glue, WherobotsDB connects to AWS Glue Catalog as an Iceberg catalog. AWS Marketplace enables enterprise procurement via cloud credits.
• DatabricksflagshipTechnology or IntegrationWherobotsDB connects to Databricks Unity Catalog and runs geospatial analytics on data already in Databricks customers' lakehouses. Apache Sedona workloads running in Databricks run on WherobotsDB with zero code changes. Databricks is a co-sponsor of PostGIS Day and a key ecosystem partner. Wherobots participated in Data + AI Summit 2025 with over 700 sessions.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• CARTO: Cloud-based spatial analytics and location intelligence platform serving enterprise data teams with similar SQL-first, cloud-native positioning to Wherobots. Competes head-to-head for the same data engineering and geospatial analytics buyer.
• Safe Software (FME): Long-standing spatial data integration and ETL platform. FME Flow + FME Form compete with Wherobots for the spatial data pipeline use case, particularly with data engineering teams handling large geospatial workloads.
• Planet Labs: Satellite imagery operator plus analytics platform (Planet Insight). Competes in Earth observation and raster analytics where RasterFlow operates, combining imagery capture with derived geospatial products.
• Felt: Collaborative, browser-based mapping platform with strategic partnership to Wherobots. Competes for the spatial visualization and mapping use case while Wherobots handles compute; combined they form a "SQL-to-map" stack that increasingly competes as an integrated offering.

Broad incumbents

• Google Earth Engine: Google's planetary-scale geospatial analytics platform, dominant in raster/Earth observation workflows. A massive incumbent with overlapping capabilities, particularly on the RasterFlow side, though Wherobots differentiates on unified vector + raster and lakehouse-native architecture.
• Esri (ArcGIS): The dominant GIS platform with ArcGIS Online and enterprise spatial offerings. Established incumbent serving similar buyers (insurance, government, utilities, aerospace) but with a more traditional, monolithic architecture rather than cloud-native lakehouse design.
• Snowflake: Cloud data platform with native GEOGRAPHY/GEOMETRY functions and Snowpark. A potential displacement threat if Snowflake deepens spatial capabilities natively, reducing the need for a dedicated spatial compute layer like WherobotsDB.
• Databricks: Lakehouse platform and current Wherobots partner (Unity Catalog integration). Also a potential competitor as Databricks builds out Mosaic AI and native spatial functions, which could absorb Wherobots' value proposition for in-platform spatial workloads.
• Microsoft Planetary Computer: Azure-hosted geospatial data catalog and analytics environment for Earth observation. Competes in raster analytics and STAC-based data access — partially overlapping with RasterFlow and the Wherobots Hub's STAC integrations.
• Maxar Technologies: Satellite imagery and geospatial analytics provider serving aerospace, defense, and intelligence. Overlaps with Wherobots in raster/Earth observation analytics for government and aerospace buyers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors5 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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