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Huge congrats to Wherobots on this successful Series A financing! The company is leading the charge in geospatial data, analytics and AI. Welcome new investor Aydin Senkut and Felicis to the team! And very well done Mo Sarwat, Jia Yu, Maxime Petazzoni, Damian Wylie, Ben Pruden and the entire team https://lnkd.in/gbymigrY

?? We are thrilled to announce that we have raised $21.M in Series A funding led by Felicis to modernize geospatial and climate intelligence.?? In addition, Wherobots is now available on the AWS Marketplace with pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling teams to leverage their AWS committed spend and benefit from integrated billing. We are incredibly thankful to the ongoing support of Wing Venture Capital, Clear Ventures as well as participation from JetBlue Ventures and Prosperity7 Ventures in this funding round. And of course to the unwavering dedication of our incredible team for helping us achieve this milestone. ?? Links to the news in the comments ??

?? We’ve raised $21.5M in Series A funding, bringing our total funding to $27M! At Wherobots, our mission is to unlock the power of geospatial data to tackle planetary-scale real-world challenges. Backed by top investors including Felicis, Wing Venture Capital, Clear Ventures, JetBlue Ventures, and Prosperity7 Ventures , this funding will accelerate the growth of our Spatial Intelligence Cloud. Our platform enables businesses to analyze geospatial data up to 20x faster, empowering them to solve critical problems like fleet optimization, disaster mitigation, and infrastructure planning. Learn more about our journey and what’s next for Wherobots from our press release: https://lnkd.in/g5T5DiZm ?? Fortune exclusive coverage We’re honored to be featured in Fortune as we work to revolutionize geospatial data analytics and tackle real-world challenges at scale: : https://lnkd.in/gK-qiNNU ?? Get started today! * Sign up for Wherobots Cloud (https://lnkd.in/gX6ZzGg6) to see how we can help your team unlock the power of geospatial data. * Explore Apache Sedona (https://sedona.apache.org/), the leading open-source geospatial compute framework powering organizations worldwide. Let’s build the future of spatial intelligence together. ??

?? Today Wherobots closed our Series A funding for $21.5 million! I have only been a part of the team for a few months but I am excited and proud of the amazing work so far and looking forward to what is to come! Mo Sarwat put it much better than I could in his post which I will link in the comments. But for me, having spent a few months now digging into Wherobots, the seamless experience along with the unified developer experience is one that I believe will be the foundation for spatial computing going forward and help solve the big problems we are taking on today. #gis #moderngis #geospatial #spatialanalytics #spatialsql #wherobots #apachesedona #seriesa #funding

We at Prosperity7 Ventures are very excited to announce our investment in Wherobots. Its an incredible platform for geospatial data , which is fast becoming a must have! So excited to partner with Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu as they build this powerhouse on top of Apache Sedona , a project pioneered by the two! Super Happy to join the fellow investors Chris Rust and Noor Kamruddin from Clear Ventures, Aydin Senkut from Felicis and Peter Wagner from Wing Venture Capital!! Onwards and Upwards! Congratulations Asif Giga on your first one with Prosperity7 Ventures and Daisy G. !! cc: MAHDI ALADEL, Aysar Tayeb, Raed Twaily, Omar Alnammary, Bruce Niven, Sean Sang Sub Lee, Matthew Shang, Chris Zhong, CFA, Noor Garatli, Cam Moseley, Iliya Bozhkov, Dave Hafford, Andrew St. Clair and team Prosperity7 Ventures! https://lnkd.in/grU5C6FH

We raised $21.5 Million for Wherobots! Our journey began when I, then a computer science professor, met Jia Yu, who was completing his PhD at ASU. We quickly bonded over our shared passion for geospatial data and saw its largely untapped potential. We realized that existing data warehousing and analytics tools were fundamentally built for internet data, not geospatial data. As a result, they underperform, and lack key features for intuitive geospatial analysis. On the other hand, legacy geospatial tools live in a silo, are often closed-source, or built on outdated architectures, making geospatial solutions inaccessible for most organizations. To address this, we created Apache Sedona, an open-source geospatial compute framework that has since achieved over 40 million downloads and is used by companies like Amazon and Land O’ Lakes for planetary-scale workloads. After years of growing Apache Sedona, we saw the need for a more comprehensive enterprise solution and launched Wherobots, a fully managed, scalable cloud platform designed to make geospatial solutions easy to build within the modern data and AI ecosystem. This round is led by Felicis—huge thanks to Aydin Senkut and Gabriella G.! Felicis continues to revolutionize the VC industry with their founder-friendly approach and bold investments. We’re also grateful for the strong support from our existing investors, Wing Venture Capital and Clear Ventures. A big thank you to Peter Wagner from Wing VC? who has a keen eye and the patience to back transformative data and AI infrastructure companies like Snowflake, Pinecone, and now Wherobots.? Our friends at Clear Ventures deserve special recognition—Chris Rust and Noor Kamruddin, your targeted AI platform for identifying promising investments and your early belief in us during the uncertain pre-commercial phase mean so much. Lastly, thank you to P7 (Abhishek Shukla) and JetBlue (Ryan Chou) for your participation in this round. We’re excited for the journey ahead! I want to take a moment to thank and applaud the incredible Wherobots team. Over the past two years, we've experienced an astounding 1000% growth. I'm truly humbled to work alongside such talented individuals who make my job both enjoyable and rewarding. This team's dedication and talent inspire confidence in achieving remarkable outcomes now and in the future. Let’s keep it going, Botsters! In closing, I want to emphasize that this is just the beginning. We understand that bringing our vision to life requires collaboration, which is why we’re proud to partner with leading cloud providers like AWS. If you’re already on AWS, you can start leveraging Wherobots today to power your geospatial workloads. The journey ahead is exciting, and we’re thrilled to have you with us!

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