What TravelTime Technologies does

TravelTime Technologies Ltd. is a London-based, privately-held geospatial API company founded in 2009 by Charlie Davies and Peter Lilley. The company operates a proprietary location API that calculates real-world travel times across driving, public transport, walking, and cycling modes for 200+ countries, processing approximately 2 billion locations per day with 99.99%+ uptime on self-built infrastructure that deliberately avoids third-party cloud dependencies. Its API product suite comprises eight specialized endpoints — Travel Time Matrix, Isochrone, Routes, Geocoding, H3, Geohash, Distance Map, and Map Tiles — distributed via SDKs in five languages (Python, R, NodeJS, Java, Ruby) and native plugins within major data and analytics platforms (ArcGIS, Alteryx, QGIS, Elastic Search, Solr, Snowflake, OpenSearch).

The business model is a SaaS subscription with a distinctive unlimited usage, fixed-price structure priced on maximum concurrency (requests per minute) rather than per-call consumption — a deliberate differentiator versus Google Maps, TomTom, HERE, and Mapbox. TravelTime runs a hybrid go-to-market: product-led growth via self-serve developer signup with a 2-week free trial, layered with enterprise field sales targeting large organizations in real estate advisory (Knight Frank, CBRE, JLL), property portals (CoStar, Rightmove, Foxtons), recruitment (StepStone, Allegis, Manpower), workforce SaaS (Vertis), telecom (BT Group), and consumer insights (CACI, CARTO). The company has 51-100 employees split between its London headquarters and a Kaunas, Lithuania engineering office, and has raised approximately $2.8M from ETF Partners in 2019 with no subsequent disclosed funding rounds, suggesting a bootstrapped, profitable growth profile.

The company maintains a horizontal positioning across nine core use-case segments — property portals, job platforms, commercial real estate, logistics, workforce planning, media and data journalism, urban planning, marketplaces, and GIS platforms — with recent strategic moves focused on ecosystem buildout (CARTO H3 integration), vertical partnerships (CACI consumer insights), and product extension (April 2025 Off-Peak Traffic Model, Homes AI Smart Search integration) rather than acquisition or geographic entry.

Name

TravelTime Technologies

Legal name

TravelTime Technologies Ltd.

Website

https://traveltime.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

TravelTime Technologies operates a proprietary location API that calculates real-world multi-modal travel times across 200+ countries, serving enterprises in property, recruitment, CRE advisory, logistics, and GIS platforms via an unlimited-usage fixed-price subscription model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Location API / Geospatial Software

NAICS

Travel Agencies (56151)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Multi-Modal Aggregators & Trip Planning APIs (Door-to-Door) (THALAJAI)

Keywords

• Location API
• Travel time analytics
• Isochrone mapping
• Geospatial intelligence
• Route optimization API

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. API Subscription - Unlimited Usage Fixed Price: Fixed monthly subscription pricing model with unlimited API usage. No consumption-based billing. Price is based on maximum concurrency (requests per minute) required rather than volume of API calls. Customers pay one fixed price regardless of how many requests they make.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels13 records

Core offering

TravelTime Technologies sells a proprietary location API platform that calculates accurate real-world travel times across driving, public transport, walking, and cycling modes for 200+ countries. The unified API exposes specialized endpoints for travel time matrices, isochrones, A-to-B routing, geocoding, and H3/geohash catchment analysis, delivered under an unlimited-usage fixed-price subscription model and sold to enterprises in property, real estate, recruitment, logistics, workforce planning, and public sector markets.

Product overview

TravelTime Technologies offers a unified location API platform that calculates accurate real-world travel times across multiple transport modes. The core product, TravelTime API, encompasses multiple specialized API endpoints: TravelTime Matrix API for multi-modal travel time calculations between thousands of locations, Isochrone API for creating reachable area visualizations, Routes API for turn-by-turn directions, Geocoding API (forward and reverse) for address-coordinate conversion, H3 API for hexagonal cell-based travel time analysis, Geohash API for geohash cell analysis, Distance Map API for travel distance visualization, and Map Tiles for raster map display. All products operate under an unlimited usage, fixed pricing model serving customers in real estate, public sector, logistics, urban planning, delivery, and online marketplaces across 200+ countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TravelTime API Unified location API platform that calculates accurate real-world travel times across driving, public transport, walking, and cycling for customers in real estate, recruitment, workforce planning, logistics, GIS, and public sector markets. Sold under an unlimited-usage fixed-price subscription model with global coverage across 200+ countries.
• TravelTime Matrix API Calculates accurate multi-modal travel times between multiple locations simultaneously, designed for location matching and large-scale route optimisation.
• H3 API Calculates travel times to all H3 hexagonal cells within a travel time catchment area, returning maximum, minimum, and mean travel time per cell.
• Isochrone API Creates reachable areas based on a maximum travel time, built for online map views, site selection, and spatial analysis.
• Routes API Generates A-to-B routes with turn-by-turn directions, designed for scale and customisation in large applications.
• Geocoding API Forward and reverse geocoding that accurately matches query strings to geographic coordinates and vice versa; included free with the API plan.
• Geohash API Calculates journey times to all geohash cells within a given catchment time, returning maximum, minimum, and mean travel time per cell.
• Distance Map API Visualises reachable locations within a travel distance catchment area with customisable departure time, transport mode, and snapping.
• Map Tiles Raster map tiles in OSM Bright and Positron styles, included free with the API plan and accessible via tile server URL for use in mapping front-ends.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10% conversion increase for StepStone Group job portal users
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability2 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• CARTOcoreTechnology or IntegrationCARTO launched TravelTime H3 integration in its location intelligence platform, enabling CARTO users to access TravelTime's hex-grid based travel time calculations directly within their existing workflows.
• CACIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCACI Partners with TravelTime for Journey Time Insights, combining CACI's consumer data expertise with TravelTime's travel time calculation capabilities for location-based consumer insights.
• ArcGIScoreTechnology or IntegrationTravelTime Plugin available within ArcGIS platform, enabling GIS professionals to use TravelTime API directly from ArcGIS environment.
• AlteryxcoreTechnology or IntegrationTravelTime Plugin available within Alteryx analytics platform, enabling data analysts to incorporate travel time calculations into their workflows.
• QGIScoreTechnology or IntegrationTravelTime Plugin available within QGIS open-source GIS platform.
• Elastic SearchcoreTechnology or IntegrationTravelTime Plugin available within Elastic Search ecosystem for location-based search functionality.
• SolrcoreTechnology or IntegrationTravelTime Plugin available within Apache Solr search platform for location-aware search capabilities.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• CARTO: CARTO is a location intelligence platform that has launched an H3 integration with TravelTime. Both serve spatial analysis use cases for enterprises, but CARTO is a broader GIS/BI platform while TravelTime is a specialized travel-time API.
• Radar: Radar provides geofencing and location SDKs for mobile apps. Overlaps with TravelTime in providing location APIs to app developers, though Radar focuses more on geofencing than travel-time calculation.

Direct peers

• Mapbox: Mapbox provides Directions API, Matrix API, and isochrone APIs for driving, walking, and cycling. TravelTime benchmarks Mapbox directly in accuracy tests; both target developers building location-aware applications.
• OpenRouteService (HeiGIT): Open-source routing API offering directions, isochrones, and matrix calculations built on OSM data. Competes in the same travel-time API category, especially for cost-sensitive developers.
• GraphHopper: GraphHopper provides routing APIs including Route API, Matrix API, and Isochrone API. Both are open-data-based routing services serving enterprise developers with multi-modal travel times.
• Google Maps Platform: Google's Distance Matrix, Directions, and Routes APIs are the dominant travel-time/routing APIs TravelTime benchmarks against. Both serve enterprises needing multi-modal travel time calculations at scale.
• TomTom: TomTom provides Routing API and Matrix Routing API for travel time calculations. Named as a direct competitor in TravelTime's accuracy benchmarks.
• HERE Technologies: HERE offers Routing API, Matrix Routing API, and Public Transit API covering multi-modal travel times globally. TravelTime benchmarks HERE in accuracy comparisons; both serve enterprise and developer use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Precisely: Precisely provides location data and geospatial analytics for enterprises, including address verification, geocoding, and routing. Overlaps with TravelTime's Geocoding and Routes APIs at the enterprise data layer.
• Esri ArcGIS: Esri's ArcGIS platform includes network analyst tools for travel time and routing. TravelTime distributes via an ArcGIS plugin; ArcGIS serves GIS professionals across real estate, urban planning, and logistics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/traveltimeapi
• GitHubgithub.com/traveltime-dev
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCUvl_ECjPffB-T6SAwwC7Bw
• Facebookfacebook.com/traveltimeapi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/traveltimeapi

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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