What AerialSphere does

AerialSphere is a Phoenix, Arizona-based private company founded in 2014 that describes itself as providing imagery solutions. The company operates at a small scale, with a headcount of 11-50 employees, and is led by a four-person executive team comprising CEO Mike Smith, CTO Elon Flegenheimer, Chief Experience Officer Nicholas Markwardt, and President & COO Suzi Shoemaker. Across roughly its first decade of operation, AerialSphere has raised approximately $6.33M in disclosed funding across three rounds — a $480K seed in 2014, an $850K round in 2019, and a $5M round in May 2020.

The specific product portfolio, underlying technology architecture, and target customer segments are not detailed in the available source data, and the company's public website (aerialsphere.com) currently resolves only to an IONOS domain-registration parking page with no live content. No pricing model, revenue mechanics, customer logos, partnerships, certifications, or geographic footprint disclosures were extracted from the source material. The investment-relevant picture is therefore one of a small, imagery-oriented venture with a single material capital event in 2020 and minimal verifiable post-2020 operating signal.

Name

AerialSphere

Website

https://aerialsphere.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AerialSphere is a Phoenix-based private imagery-solutions company founded in 2014, serving customers with image-related technology offerings, backed by approximately $6.33M in disclosed funding across three rounds through 2020.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geospatial Imagery Software

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Aerial Surveying & Crop Scouting (Imaging, Mapping, Stand Counts) (AFACAIAJ)

Keywords

• Geospatial imagery
• Aerial imaging
• Imagery solutions
• Location intelligence
• Photo mapping

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

AerialSphere provides imagery solutions intended to enable users to harness the full potential of imagery. The company's public web presence is currently limited to a registered domain, and no specific product features, deliverables, or customer-facing offerings are detailed in the available source material.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Nearmap: AerialSphere's closest direct peer; Nearmap provides high-resolution aerial imagery and 3D content on a subscription platform to insurance, construction, and government customers. Operates in the same 'aerial imagery as a service' category with overlapping customer use cases.
• EagleView: Specializes in high-resolution aerial imagery and analytics primarily for insurance, roofing, and government. Direct competitor in the property/insurance vertical where aerial panoramic imagery is increasingly used for inspection and underwriting.
• DroneDeploy: Drone-based aerial mapping and inspection platform serving construction, agriculture, and mining. Comparable on the capture-to-platform pipeline, though DroneDeploy's model is more oriented around customer-operated drones than AerialSphere's captured-and-served library.
• Hover: Generates 3D exterior property models from aerial and ground imagery for insurance and home improvement. Comparable in applying aerial/exterior imagery to property-centric use cases similar to AerialSphere's likely end markets.
• Skyfish: Provides drone-based aerial imagery and data analytics for infrastructure inspection and surveying. Overlaps with AerialSphere on the aerial-capture-to-deliverable workflow for engineering and infrastructure customers.
• Bird.i: Aggregates aerial and satellite imagery with a developer/API platform for construction and real estate. Comparable to AerialSphere as an imagery-distribution layer rather than a primary capture operator.

Broad incumbents

• Maxar Technologies: A leading satellite-imagery and geospatial-intelligence provider serving defense, intelligence, and commercial markets. A broader incumbent that competes for some of AerialSphere's enterprise/government use cases from a satellite vantage point.
• Planet Labs: Operates the largest commercial fleet of Earth-imaging satellites, providing daily global imagery. Represents the satellite-imagery benchmark against which any aerial-imagery entrant must differentiate on resolution and freshness.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors

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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