Wherobots, the Spatial Intelligence Cloud founded by Apache Sedona creators Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu, has closed a $21.5 million Series A funding round. The financing, led by Felicis with support from Wing Venture Capital, Clear Ventures, JetBlue Ventures, and P7 Ventures, will accelerate product development and market expansion. Aydin Senkut of Felicis and Peter Wagner of Wing Venture Capital will join Wherobots’ Board of Directors.
Organizations face challenges in analyzing geospatial data generated by billions of satellites, drones, and GPS devices daily. Existing analytics tools struggle to handle this spatial data, creating inefficiencies and limiting innovation. Wherobots addresses this gap with its serverless, planetary-scale geospatial data platform, enabling up to 20x faster data processing than traditional cloud analytics engines. The platform supports ETL pipelines, analytics, and computer vision across vector and raster data types, accessible through SQL, Python, and Java/Scala.
“Our mission is to make geospatial data easy to use,” said Mo Sarwat, CEO of Wherobots. “With Wherobots, companies can bring products to market faster, improve decision-making, and optimize operations at scale.”
Wherobots builds on the success of Apache Sedona, an open-source geospatial computing solution incubated by its founders. Sedona has become the default engine for geospatial analytics in organizations like Amazon for last-mile delivery and Land O’Lakes for precision farming, growing 150% annually with nearly 40 million downloads.
“Geospatial data is a trillion-dollar market in the making,” said Aydin Senkut of Felicis. “Wherobots is democratizing solutions to extract insights at unprecedented speed, unifying geospatial data in cloud-native environments.”
With this funding, Wherobots aims to expand its customer base and deliver advanced capabilities, further unlocking the potential of geospatial data across industries such as insurance, transportation, and agriculture.
