Best Geographic Information Systems Companies in Switzerland
The 37 best Geographic Information Systems companies in Switzerland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MapsWithMe.
Ranked: Best Geographic Information Systems companies in Switzerland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MapsWithMe Provider of an app for travel guidance and navigation | $50M | 67 mo ago | 13 | 2011 | — | Amazon Web ServicesSwiperjQuery+8 | — | — |
| 2 | Gamaya AI-powered solutions for sugarcane yield optimization and sustainable agriculture | $16M | 87 mo ago | 27 | 2014 | — | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+14 | 14 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 3 | Picterra Provides an online AI platform for object detection and geospatial analytics | $10M | 52 mo ago | 30 | 2016 | Frank de Morsier Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — | — |
| 4 | Fixposition Provider of positioning services for multiple applications | $9M | 44 mo ago | 25 | 2017 | Zhenzhong Su Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifyWebflow+30 | — | — |
| 5 | Onesoil Ai AI and satellite-based precision farming solutions for farmers | $7M | 64 mo ago | 62 | 2017 | Slava Mazai Co-Founder | SentryLeafletFacebook Login+19 | — | 2 launchs |
| 6 | Nomoko Reality capture camera and software pipeline for photorealistic 3D models | $3M | 67 mo ago | 39 | 2015 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Pix4D Provider of a cloud and AI-based photogrammetry software for drone mapping | $2M | 135 mo ago | 240 | 2011 | — | ContentfulApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+29 | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | Sparrow Provider of AI and IoT-based urban data collection and planning tools | $2M | 29 mo ago | — | 2020 | Elshad Hajiyev CEO | — | — | — |
| 9 | Dizmo Provider of a cloud-based digital twin modelling tool | $2M | 146 mo ago | 16 | 2013 | Luigi Mantellassi Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLRedis+21 | 22 patents Dynamic UI layout and device control software for interactive display systems | — |
| 10 | Gilytics Provider of 3D visualization solutions for energy transmission | $1M | 68 mo ago | 16 | 2017 | Stefano Grassi Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+23 | — | — |
| 11 | V-Labs Provider of an AR-based visualization solution for surveyors and contractors | $620K | 50 mo ago | 4 | 2015 | Diemer Stuart Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 12 | SenseFly Maker of the eBee and swinglet CAM mini-UAVs | $592K | 92 mo ago | 90 | 2009 | — | Element UIVue.jsAmazon Web Services+8 | 18 patents UAV-based aerial photogrammetry and 3D mapping systems for geographic imaging | — |
Top 12 Geographic Information Systems companies in Switzerland
#1
Seed · Geneva, Geneva · founded 2020$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of AI and IoT-based urban data collection and planning tools. It offers mobile sensors and a web-based data platform that captures and measure data like air pollutants, road quality, and traffic pattern for smart planning and interventions. It facilitates pollution monitoring, detection of abnormal events, road quality mapping, and traffic pattern analysis.
- Mar 2024Seed$2.2M
- Nov 2021Conventional Debt$109.6K
#2
Seed · Schlieren, Zurich · founded 2017 · 25 employees$9.4Mraised▾
Provider of positioning services for multiple applications. It provides users with hardware and software-enabled solutions for autonomous vehicles, commercial drones, and autonomous robots. It also offers embedded hardware devices like Vision-RTK and NAV-RTK Dual with features like precise positioning, OTA software updates, and lightweight.
- Dec 2022Seed—
- Oct 2021Seed$6M
- Dec 2019Seed$3.4M
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$55.1K
#3
Acquired · Zug, Canton of Zug · founded 2011 · 13 employees$50Mraised▾
Maps provides an app for travel guidance and navigation. It provides guides for city travel, car trips, cycling, or outdoor activities. The app is available for iOS & Android devices.
- Feb 2021ICO$900K
- Jan 2021Seed—
- Jan 2021Seed$50M
#4
Series A · Chavannes pres Renens, Vaud · founded 2016 · 30 employees$9.8Mraised▾
Operator of a geospatial data platform intended to extract crucial information and actionable insights from satellite images. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence systems dedicated to the automatic processing and exploitation of aerial data for statistics and representations of changes using a drone, aerial, or satellite imagery at scale, enabling clients to extract earth observation imagery from personalized information related to their industry.
#5
Series A · Freienbach, Schwyz · founded 2017 · 62 employees$6.7Mraised▾
AI and satellite-based precision farming solutions for farmers. It enables farmers and agri-businesses to remotely monitor crop yields and fertilizer costs. It uses the NDVI index to track field vegetation. It also provides a web platform that enables them to view files from machinery and calculate seed and fertilizer rates for agriculture needs. Its mobile application is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Apr 2021Series A$5M
- 2019Seed$1.2M
- Nov 2017Seed$500K
#6
Series B · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2014 · 27 employees$15.6Mraised▾
AI-powered solutions for sugarcane yield optimization and sustainable agriculture. The company provides a platform combining artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and agronomic modeling to optimize sugarcane production from planting to harvest. They offer solutions for yield improvement, sustainability reporting, and carbon footprint reduction. Their services include precision soil moisture monitoring, harvest optimization, and compliance with sustainability guidelines. The company focuses on creating customized solutions that optimize operations, increase yields, and help combat the impacts of climate change. They leverage crop-specific models with AI-based data analytics to make every harvest more productive and sustainable. The company's offerings include CanaSight™, CanaTrace™, and AquaView™. They serve growers and value chain players, promoting sustainable agriculture through agronomic intelligence. The platform offers features like login, blog subscription, and demo booking.
- Jun 2019Series B$12.2M
- May 2016Series A$3.2M
- May 2015Seed$141.3K
#7
Deadpooled · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2015 · 39 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Nomoko has developed a solution to interact and build applications on top of the digital twin of the world. The solution comprises of a reality capture camera and software pipeline for photorealistic 3D models. The reality capture camera is essentially a 1,500 megapixels camera that can be mounted on either an unmanned aerial vehicle or used at the ground level for gathering photorealistic 3D reconstruction with incorporated metadata such as materials, object classification, geometry recognition, physics. The company claims that the distributed 3D modeling pipeline software can handle the voluminous amount of data generated and allows the same to be interactively interrogated for building applications on top of it. The target market includes the self-driving car industry, gaming sector, urban planning, smart cities, among others.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$60.7K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$2.6M
- May 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$56.8K
#8
Seed · Geneva, Geneva · founded 2015 · 4 employees$620.1Kraised▾
Provider of an AR-based visualization solution for surveyors and contractors. It allows users to visualize GIS data directly on the worksite and enables operators to view the exact emplacement of all the underground pipes and cables. It features hands-free, remote assistance, and metadata updating capabilities.
- Jul 2022Seed$102K
- Jun 2021Seed—
- Mar 2020Angel$518.1K
#9
Seed · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2017 · 16 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Gilytics provides 3D visualization solutions for energy transmission. It offers services such as spatial data management, data-driven decision making, cloud computing, optimal spatial planning, and others. Its features include customization of tower model & substations, analytics of routes, 3D visualization of projects, 3D visualization of diffusion of electromagnetic fields, estimation of construction costs, and more.
- Dec 2020Seed$1.1M
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$55K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$55.4K
- Apr 2018Seed$31.4K
#10
Seed · Prilly, Vaud · founded 2011 · 240 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Pix4D provides cloud and AI-based photogrammetry software for drone mapping. Its features include 3D scanning, image optimization for drone mapping, industrial inspection and asset management using drone images. It caters to agriculture, construction, mapping, surveying, inspection and public safety.
- Jun 2015Grant (prize money)—
- Jul 2012Seed$2.4M
- 2011Seed$31.9K
#11
Seed · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2013 · 16 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based digital twin modelling tool. It provides a suite of cloud services enabling the development, execution, and governance of integration flows connecting all combinations of on-premise and cloud-based processes, services, applications and data within an individual or across multiple organizations. It provides a standard framework and automates the surfacing of microservices, legacy, and device digital twins. Also provides integration and workflow creation solutions and an application development kit that enables application logic, sequencing, and bundling between applications.
- Jun 2014Angel$2M
#12
Acquired · Cheseaux sur Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2009 · 90 employees$592Kraised▾
SenseFly is a Swiss company with its main focus on design, development and commercialisation of small autonomous UAV for remote sensing, field surveying and mapping. SenseFly provides easy-to-use, turnkey solutions to professionals in need of up-to-date maps or geo-referenced data. At the core of these systems is an intelligent miniature autopilot that has been initially designed at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL, which is widely recognised for its innovative work in the field of miniature, bio-inspired and collective aerial robotics. Since 2012, SenseFly is a Parrot company which brought majority (57%) stack in 5 million Swiss francs.
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$592K
- 2010Seed—
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How research on Earth Observation is moving in Switzerland
A read on the academic research around Earth Observation — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 557 Switzerland-affiliated papers.
- ETH Zurich157
- University of Zurich65
- Gamma Remote Sensing55
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research43
- University of Bern42
- Hyperspectral imaging2→25
- Satellite1→19
- Remote sensing6→19
- Satellite imagery1→11
- Glacier2→11
- Remote sensing16→40
- Satellite2→22
- Hyperspectral imaging9→26
- Synthetic aperture radar6→21
- Interferometric synthetic aperture radar6→18
- Hyperspectral imaging1→7
- Remote sensing1→5
Where earth observation is researched across Switzerland
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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