What GeoNetwork does

GeoNetwork is a spatial internet infrastructure company that delivers a platform for the registry, delivery, and management of geofences and spatial assets. At its core is the GeoNetwork Global Coordinate System, an IPv6-based addressing scheme that assigns a coordinate address to every cubic centimeter on Earth and into outer space, providing cubic-centimeter precision location intelligence on top of existing global Internet infrastructure. The platform extends this coordinate fabric into a suite of integrated products: a Global Registry & Management System for claiming 3D places and setting hierarchical, overlapping, time-based, or delegated rules; Spatial Rights Management, positioned as the world's only multi-stakeholder spatial rights and geofencing solution; Spatial Asset Management for registering and summoning real or virtual assets; a Private Spatial Network module that lets enterprises run the full stack on their own IPv6 block with an air-gapped option; and Spatial Network Analytics, which renders routers, servers, devices, and cloud services spatially aware via WebGL without modification. GeoNetwork is also the delegated operator of the .place top-level domain, which serves as the home for GeoDomains — globally unique names for bounded spaces and assets.

The company serves three primary customer segments — government agencies, businesses, and individuals — with use cases spanning spatial rights governance, 3D place claiming, property and contractual boundary naming, asset registration, and private network spatial enforcement. Its go-to-market is enterprise-focused direct sales to government and business buyers requiring complex multi-stakeholder spatial governance. Revenue is generated through subscription/recurring fees for spatial rights management and private spatial network solutions, complemented by licensing/royalties tied to .place domain naming and registration; pricing is not publicly disclosed, consistent with a quote-based enterprise model. The company is privately held, headquartered in Tiburon, California, with 1–10 employees, and holds 60 granted patents protecting its IPv6-based spatial indexing and related methods.

Name

GeoNetwork

Legal name

GeoNetwork

Website

https://geo.network

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GeoNetwork provides an IPv6-based spatial addressing platform for registering 3D places, managing multi-stakeholder spatial rights, and naming real and virtual assets. It serves government agencies, businesses, and individuals as the delegated operator of the .place top-level domain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Spatial Internet Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

akta.pro primary industry

Geofencing, Proximity & Location-Based Engagement Platforms (BPAMANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

GIS & Spatial Data Management Platforms (BPAMANAK), Geocoding, Search & Place Data Platforms (BPAMANAC)

Keywords

• Spatial internet infrastructure
• Geofencing solutions
• IPv6 spatial addressing
• Spatial rights management
• Spatial asset registry

Headquarters

HQ city

Belvedere Tiburon

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Spatial Rights Management Platform: Revenue generated from spatial rights management solutions enabling organizations to claim places, set rules, and govern spatial internet domains. Operates at Internet scale with global reach.
2. .Place Domain Services: Revenue from naming and registering bounded spaces or assets using the .place top-level domain. Provides globally unique spatial asset naming throughout the spatial internet.
3. Private Spatial Network Solutions: Enterprise solutions for organizations requiring private spatial networks with their own IPv6 network block, including enhanced network security and spatial rule enforcement.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

GeoNetwork delivers an IPv6-based spatial addressing platform that assigns a unique coordinate address to every cubic centimeter on Earth (and into outer space). The company operates the .Place top-level domain for naming spatial assets, and provides a Global Registry & Management System for claiming 3D places, setting spatial rules, and registering real or virtual assets — including multi-stakeholder spatial rights management, geofencing, spatial asset management, and private spatial network capabilities for government agencies, businesses, and individuals.

Product overview

GeoNetwork is a spatial internet infrastructure company offering a unified platform for governing physical and virtual spaces. The portfolio centers on the GeoNetwork Global Coordinate System, which uses IPv6 addresses as a spatial fabric to provide precise location intelligence across every cubic centimeter on Earth. The platform comprises multiple integrated modules: Spatial Rights Management (multi-stakeholder geofencing solution), Spatial Asset Management (global registry for real and virtual assets), and Spatial Network Management/Analytics (for network topology binding and spatial data visualization). The .Place top-level domain serves as the home for GeoDomains, enabling naming of spatial assets. A Private Spatial Network option extends these capabilities for enterprise use with dedicated IPv6 network blocks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GeoNetwork Global Coordinate System IPv6-based spatial addressing system that assigns a coordinate address to every cubic centimeter on Earth and into outer space, enabling precise location intelligence across real and virtual worlds.
• .Place Top Level Domain Top-level domain used to name spatial assets (GeoDomains) including property boundaries, legal/contractual boundaries, and real or virtual assets, for private or global use across the Spatial Internet.
• Global Registry & Management System System for claiming 3D places anywhere on Earth, setting rules for those places, and registering real or virtual assets — with hierarchical enforcement, overlapping claims, delegation, and time-based rights.
• Spatial Rights Management Multi-stakeholder spatial rights and geofencing solution providing global registration of spatial rights, management and distribution of rules of spaces, hierarchical enforcement of authority, and high-assurance compliance by devices and apps.
• Spatial Asset Management Global spatial registry for real-world and virtual-world assets allowing association of rule space with any asset, summoning of virtual assets by name or trigger event to precise permanent or ad hoc locations, and delivery of virtual assets or scenes in precise physical relationships.
• Private Spatial Network Private deployment of the GeoNetwork platform using the customer's own IPv6 network block, providing increased network security and spatially enforced rules for network-connected devices, with an air-gapped option for sensitive operations.
• Spatial Network Analytics Analytics and WebGL visualization platform that makes routers, servers, user devices, and cloud services spatially aware without modification, available on-premise or in the cloud.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• TomTom: TomTom provides location technology including maps, geocoding, and traffic services to enterprises and automakers. Its geocoding and geofencing capabilities overlap with GeoNetwork's spatial addressing proposition, though at higher maturity and broader market footprint.
• HERE Technologies: HERE is a major location platform offering maps, location data, and geospatial services to enterprises and automakers. It overlaps with GeoNetwork in providing location intelligence for IoT, automotive, and fleet/logistics customers, though at much broader scope and scale.
• Trimble: Trimble provides geospatial and positioning solutions across construction, agriculture, and mapping. Its private positioning systems and spatial asset management capabilities for industrial/government customers overlap with GeoNetwork's enterprise positioning proposition.
• Maxar Technologies: Maxar is a major provider of satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence to government and defense customers. While it operates at a different layer (satellite imagery), it serves overlapping mission-critical spatial data needs in government/defense markets where GeoNetwork also competes.

Regional players

• Planet Labs: Planet Labs operates one of the largest commercial satellite imagery fleets and serves government, agriculture, and commercial monitoring customers globally. Its geospatial monitoring and change-detection capabilities address adjacent enterprise/government markets, though from an imagery-led position rather than addressing/registry.

Direct peers

• Mapbox: Mapbox is a developer-focused geospatial platform providing maps, location data, and spatial APIs. While Mapbox is more established in maps/navigation, its location APIs and geofencing capabilities compete in overlapping enterprise use cases for spatial context and asset management.
• Esri: Esri operates the dominant GIS platform (ArcGIS) used by government agencies and large enterprises globally — the same primary customer base that GeoNetwork targets. Both address spatial data management, asset registry, and rights/governance workflows for government and enterprise users.
• what3words: what3words is the most conceptually analogous company to GeoNetwork: it has created a proprietary global addressing system (3-word addresses) for every 3m x 3m square on Earth. Both companies are inventing new spatial addressing standards on top of existing Internet infrastructure. what3words also monetizes via licensing and enterprise integrations, similar to GeoNetwork's GTM.

Emerging players

• Cesium: Cesium provides an open platform for 3D geospatial visualization using WebGL — the same technology highlighted in GeoNetwork's spatial analytics offering. Both companies target developers of 3D/spatially-aware applications in virtual worlds and enterprise visualization.
• Safe Software (FME): Safe Software's FME platform is widely used for spatial data integration, transformation, and management by government and enterprise users. It addresses adjacent spatial data management workflows that overlap conceptually with GeoNetwork's Spatial Asset Management.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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