What Soar.Earth does

Soar.Earth is a Perth, Australia-based private company founded in 2018 that operates a community-driven digital atlas and satellite imagery platform accessible globally at soaratlas.com. The product enables users to discover, view, upload, and share maps and satellite imagery in a browser-based viewer with 3D mode, supporting multiple basemap layers (OpenStreetMap, Google Hybrid, Google Satellite) and curating content across categories including History, Imagery, Politics, Live Maps, Daily Maps, Disasters, and Timelapse. The platform's differentiated content library combines historical maps (such as Chinese dynasty maps sourced from the Historical Atlas of China), declassified KH-7, KH-4A, and CORONA spy satellite imagery with mission/frame/resolution metadata, and modern free satellite sources including Sentinel-2, NAIP aerial imagery, and USGS data.

The go-to-market is product-led and self-serve: users can view maps without authentication, while sign-in unlocks 3D viewing, uploads, and social features (follow, like, comment, share). The business model is characterized as subscription/recurring in the source data, but no public pricing, tiers, or paid plans are disclosed, and no enterprise or paying-customer logos are identified — the named users (e.g., Sat Mapper, SkyPixel, SpaceFromSpace, Arabosint X, lou loa) are individual contributors, with the New South Wales Government the only institutional data source. Key technology partners include OpenStreetMap and Google Maps Platform (basemaps) and USGS Earth Explorer (declassified imagery sourcing). Leadership comprises CEO Amir Farhand, Chairman David Singleton, COO Neil Prentice, and CTO Chris Lowe; the company has 11–50 employees and has raised a single disclosed funding round of approximately $105,625 in January 2024. No revenue, API offering, mobile app, patents, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed.

Name

Soar.Earth

Website

https://soaratlas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Soar.Earth is a community-driven digital atlas platform where users discover, upload, and view historical maps, declassified spy satellite imagery, and modern satellite data in an interactive web viewer with 3D mode, serving global individual contributors, researchers, and satellite-imagery enthusiasts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Mapping Platform

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Geospatial Platforms (BPAMANAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mapping & Basemap Platforms (Tiles/SDKs) (BPAMANAB), Geocoding, Search & Place Data Platforms (BPAMANAC)

Keywords

• Digital atlas platform
• Satellite imagery sharing
• Interactive mapping platform
• Historical map collection
• Community mapping content

Headquarters

HQ city

Perth

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Map/Satellite Imagery Platform Services: Platform enables map contributors to upload and share maps and satellite imagery. Revenue mechanics are not explicitly disclosed in available source data.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Soar.Earth operates a cloud-based mapping platform that aggregates and displays satellite imagery, historical maps, and user-uploaded content on interactive web maps with 3D viewing capability. Users can discover, view, upload, and share maps covering modern satellite imagery, declassified spy satellite programs (KH-7, KH-4A, CORONA), and historical atlas content such as Chinese dynasty maps, with content contributed by individual mappers and government sources globally.

Product overview

Soar.Earth is a mapping and satellite imagery platform that operates as a single unified product offering. The platform centers on its core mapping viewer that supports multiple basemap sources (OpenStreetMap, Google Hybrid, Google Satellite), supplemented by features for discovering user-uploaded maps, accessing satellite imagery (including declassified KH-7 and KH-4A spy satellite imagery), and viewing content in 3D mode. The platform aggregates maps across categories including History, Imagery, Politics, and current events through a community-driven upload model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Soar Platform

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OpenStreetMapcoreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform uses OpenStreetMap as a primary basemap layer for all maps. OpenStreetMap tiles are displayed in the map viewer and attribution is shown (OpenStreetMap contributors).
• Google Maps PlatformcoreTechnology or IntegrationPlatform integrates Google Satellite, Google Hybrid basemaps as alternative base layers alongside OpenStreetMap.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sentinel Hub (Sinergise): Satellite imagery data and analytics platform built around Sentinel and other open Earth-observation feeds; comparable in focus on free satellite imagery discovery and visualization.
• Mapbox: Developer-focused mapping and basemap platform with satellite imagery layers and custom styling; closest direct peer given Soar.Earth's multi-basemap integration and self-serve PLG approach.
• OpenStreetMap: Community-driven open mapping project; Soar.Earth uses OSM as its primary basemap and shares a community-content ethos, making it a comparable — and partly enabling — peer.
• Zoom Earth: Web-based near-real-time satellite imagery viewer (including Sentinel-2) covering weather, fires, and current events; closest direct peer in functional scope for daily/live satellite imagery consumption.

Broad incumbents

• Planet Labs: Operator of a large commercial satellite constellation providing daily global imagery; a broad incumbent in the satellite imagery supply chain that Soar.Earth's platform sits downstream of.
• Maxar Technologies: High-resolution commercial satellite imagery provider and SecureWatch platform; broad incumbent offering satellite imagery and discovery tools that overlap with Soar.Earth's curated imagery content.
• Esri ArcGIS Online: Enterprise GIS and mapping platform with imagery hosting and basemap aggregation; broader incumbent serving government and enterprise customers with overlapping satellite-imagery use cases.
• Google Earth: Google's flagship satellite imagery and 3D earth viewer; directly comparable as a global satellite/historical imagery platform but vastly broader in scope, owned infrastructure (Google basemaps integrated into Soar.Earth), and resources.

Others

• USGS Earth Explorer: Primary U.S. government source for declassified satellite imagery and aerial photography; comparable as the upstream data provider that feeds Soar.Earth's declassified content.
• NASA Worldview / NASA GIBS: Public-sector satellite imagery portal providing free access to NASA Earth observation data; comparable as a free discovery layer for satellite imagery that Soar.Earth partially aggregates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Soar_Earth

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

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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