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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTo achieve that, Point One has combined an augmented global navigation satellite system (GNSS), computer vision, and sensor fusion into an API. Typically that API is deployed as a software product because most new vehicles \u2014 like a slick EV or luxury car \u2014 come equipped with the necessary hardware. For vehicles like farm equipment or say a first responder that don\u2019t, Point One adds a chipset into the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Point One started with a focus on automotive clients \u2014 a sign of the bullish autonomous vehicle technology times. That sector continues to make up a large slice of its revenue. Point One couldn\u2019t disclose most of its commercial customer names, but it did share that its technology supports the advanced driver assistance and infotainment needs of an EV maker and is included in more than 150,000 of its vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Point One also has contracts with some of the largest mowing and turf care manufacturers, a distribution company\u2019s fleet of 300,000 last-mile delivery vehicles, and a global manufacturer of street and racing bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the startup began to branch out to other sectors around 2021 when it announced its\u00a0$10 million Series A\u00a0round, according to Nathan. That helped kick adoption into high gear. Over the past year, the number of manufacturers using Point One Navigation\u2019s technology platform has increased tenfold and spans automotive, robotics, industrial, and wearable sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd now it\u2019s just accelerating,\u201d Nathan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Point One\u2019s Series C round will be used to build out all aspects of its technology, including its so-called Polaris RTK Network \u2014 a key piece of hardware that helps deliver centimeter-level accuracy even in sparsely populated areas in North America, Europe, and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe industry keeps pressing to higher precision, from precision agriculture to painting lines to mowing a yard,\u201d Tom Weeks, the company\u2019s COO told TechCrunch. \u201cYou can\u2019t be off by 10 centimeters and go over in a flower bed. So everything\u2019s pressing to the one to three centimeter range.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get that kind of precision, Point One spent eight years developing its RTK Network, a system of small lunchbox-sized units, installed in secure locations like a cell phone tower facility that provides corrections to location. To create a dense network, these stations need to be within 40 kilometers of that vehicle or device\u2019s location. That means a lot of stations, which the company is building out, Weeks said. The startup is also working to beef up the technology\u2019s capability indoors. Today, vehicles traveling from outdoors to an indoor parking structure will continue to have that precise location. But Nathan wants to extend that capability to industrial settings where a robot, for instance, may spend the bulk of its life inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re building next \u2014 and that\u2019s part of what this fundraising is for \u2014 is, how do we do long-term indoor navigation as well,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you look at the evolution of the business, we want to solve ubiquitous location, so eventually it will be indoors and all domains.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For San Francisco-based startu…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[205,206],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","category-deep-tech","tag-autodrive","tag-robotaxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.itsmetoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-25-768x1024.png\")
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\u201cMidwestern states where farming is going on, all the way to the East Coast in the U.S., require solid density, because you have people, you have farming, you have cars and trucks, a lot of middle-mile freight,\u201d Weeks said. \u201cSo we\u2019re in the process of filling that out; we\u2019re almost there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n