Mapper.ai

What Mapper.ai does

Mapper.ai was a San Francisco-based, for-profit private company founded in 2015 that focused on high-definition (HD) mapping technology for autonomous vehicles. The company's stated positioning was to become a large-scale provider of machine-readable maps (MRM), with technology aimed at centimeter-level precision positioning and real-time environmental awareness required for autonomous vehicle navigation and safety. Beyond this conceptual framing, no specific products, platform architecture, data assets, or technical components are documented in the available data.

The company's only documented capital event was a November 2016 funding round of approximately $2.5 million from Trinity Ventures. No revenue model, pricing structure, customer segments, named customers, distribution channels, partnerships, management team, or patent portfolio are recorded in the input data. The company operated with a headcount of 11-50 and was headquartered in San Francisco.

The mapper.ai domain is currently listed for sale on Spaceship.com, and the company has no active web presence or other operational signals. This strongly suggests the entity is inactive or has wound down operations, though no formal dissolution filing or public closure announcement is documented. The available data provides no evidence of commercial product launches, customer wins, or ongoing development activity.

Name

Mapper.ai

Website

https://mapper.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mapper.ai was a San Francisco-based HD mapping technology company founded in 2015 that aimed to provide machine-readable maps for autonomous vehicle navigation. The company raised approximately $2.5 million from Trinity Ventures in 2016, and its domain is currently listed for sale, indicating the entity is inactive.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Autonomous Vehicle Mapping Software

NAICS

Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (541360)

SIC

Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812)

akta.pro primary industry

HD Maps & Localization for Autonomous/ADAS (BPAMANAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

3D Vision, Depth Sensing & Point Cloud Analytics (HDAAAEAK)

Keywords

• HD mapping
• Autonomous vehicle maps
• Machine-readable maps
• Geospatial data
• AV mapping technology

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

Mapper.ai builds high-definition (HD) mapping technology intended for autonomous vehicles, providing machine-readable map (MRM) data that supports precision positioning and real-time environment awareness. The company positioned itself as a data provider for HD maps serving the autonomous vehicle ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Machine-Readable Maps (MRM) Data

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Broad incumbents

• TomTom: TomTom is a major navigation and HD map provider serving automotive customers with map content, traffic data, and location services. Overlaps directly with Mapper.ai's HD mapping for autonomous vehicles mission.
• Waymo: Waymo operates one of the world's largest autonomously-driven fleets and builds proprietary HD maps at scale. Represents the dominant vertically-integrated HD mapping and AV operator that Mapper.ai would target as a customer or competitor.
• HERE Technologies: HERE Technologies is a global leader in HD mapping and location data, supplying centimeter-level map content to automotive OEMs and AV developers. Directly comparable to Mapper.ai as an HD map data provider for autonomous driving, but at vastly greater scale and coverage.
• Mobileye: Mobileye (Intel) develops ADAS and autonomous vehicle technology including REM-based crowd-sourced HD mapping. Competes in the same HD map and AV enablement category as Mapper.ai.

Direct peers

• Civil Maps: Civil Maps provided HD mapping and localization technology for autonomous vehicles using point cloud and crowdsourced data. A direct early-stage peer to Mapper.ai in the AV HD mapping category.
• DeepMap: DeepMap was an HD mapping startup for autonomous vehicles that was acquired by NVIDIA in 2022. Closely comparable to Mapper.ai as a venture-backed HD mapping pure-play serving AV developers.
• Carmera: Carmera built HD mapping and real-time geospatial intelligence for autonomous vehicles and was acquired by Woven Planet (Toyota). Closely comparable to Mapper.ai as a venture-backed AV HD mapping specialist.
• Mapillary: Mapillary crowdsourced street-level imagery and map data for automotive and mapping applications before being acquired by Meta/Facebook. A directly comparable peer in computer-vision-driven HD mapping.
• Lvl5: Lvl5 used computer vision to generate HD maps for autonomous vehicles, directly overlapping with Mapper.ai's positioning as a vision/AI-based HD mapping provider for AVs.

Emerging players

• Velodyne Lidar: Velodyne produces LiDAR sensors widely used in HD map generation and autonomous vehicle perception stacks. Adjacent but related as a critical hardware/input provider for HD map production.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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