Swift Navigation
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Swift Navigation

http://swiftnav.com/
Last activity: 09.09.2026
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Swift Navigation founders Colin Beighley and Fergus Noble met at startup Joby Energy in 2009, where they worked together on a project for high-altitude kite-like airborne wind turbines. They soon realized there were no GPS products on the market to meet their performance requirements, so they began creating a prototype of their own to guide the kites. After Joby Energy became a Google X project, Beighley and Noble decided to focus on making the GPS technology they had been developing into something more useful for the autonomous vehicle, autonomous systems and robotics industries and Swift Navigation took off.

Tim Harris, Swift’s third co-founder and CEO joined the company in 2012 and Swift started developing the technology with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in mind, but realized there was a much broader use for the company’s precise GPS solutions.

Today Swift Navigation’s real-time kinematics (RTK) GPS and GNSS positioning technology is providing centimeter-level accuracy for autonomous vehicles, UAVs, precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, space applications and more.
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Location: United States
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $247.6M
Founded date: 2012

Investors 8

Funding Rounds 6

DateSeriesAmountInvestors
27.07.2025Series E$50MCrosslink ...
24.10.2022Series D$100M-
09.02.2021Series C$50M-
28.06.2017Series B$34MNew Enterp...
08.12.2015Series A$11M-
21.08.2014Seed$2.6M-

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08.09.2026SATELLAI Deepens Collaboration with Deutsche Telekom IoT and Swift Navigation at IFA 2026BERLIN, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SATELLAI, an AI-powered pet wellbeing company building technology to help people better understand and care for their pets, today highlighted its expanded collaboration with Deutsche Telekom IoT and Swi...
18.08.2026Live 5G Delivers Sub-30 cm GPS Without Proprietary Hardware, Ericsson and MediaTek ShowBy Maxwell Templeton Published: Aug 18 2026, 3:12 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
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05.11.2025Swift Navigation and Asensing Partner to Deliver Automotive-Grade High-Accuracy GPS for Industrial Autonomy, a global leader in precise positioning technology for mass-market applications, and Asensing, a leading provider of high-precision GNSS sensors, announced full compatibility between the Asensing NAV3120 high-precision GNSS positioning mod...
22.08.2025What Is Cloud-Based GNSS Correction and How Does It Work?Share Share Share Share Email Accurate positioning is at the heart of modern technology, from guiding autonomous vehicles on the road to supporting precision farming in the fields. Yet, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals ofte...
27.07.2025Swift Navigation Secures $50 Million to Propel Precision AutonomySwift Navigation recently closed a significant $50 million Series E funding round. Crosslink Capital spearheaded this investment. This fresh capital will aggressively expand the reach of Swift's Skylark Precise Positioning Service. Skylark ...
27.07.2025Swift Navigation: $50 Million Series E Raised For Advancing Precise Positioning SolutionsSwift Navigation, a leader in centimeter-accurate positioning for vehicle autonomy, robotics, and precision logistics, has completed its $50 million Series E financing round. Led by Crosslink Capital, the round also included participation f...
23.07.2025Top Startup and Tech Funding News – July 23, 2025It’s Wednesday, July 23, 2025, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. We’re a bit late hitting send today, but we’ve more than made up for it with an expanded edition—packed with some of the biggest and most intrigui...
23.07.2025Swift Navigation Raises $50M in Series E FundingSwift Navigation, a San Francisco, CA-based company which specializes in centimeter-accurate positioning for vehicle autonomy, robotics, and precision logistics, raised $50M in Series E funding. The round was led by Crosslink Capital, with ...
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