Swift Navigation

Operating milestones

• Operating metric

  2024-01-01 - Angsa Robotics reported a 240 percent efficiency improvement after using Swift Navigation Skylark positioning on its autonomous trash-picking robots. - Angsa autonomous trash-picking robots

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Supply chain relationships

• Angsa Robotics

  Outbound - Positioning & Navigation - Swift Navigation supplies Skylark positioning corrections for Angsa's autonomous trash-picking robot

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• Capra Robotics

  Outbound - Positioning & Navigation - Capra Robotics uses Swift Navigation Skylark Precise Positioning Service for centimeter-level autonomous navigation on sidewalks and paths

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• Clearpath Robotics

  Outbound - Positioning & Navigation - Clearpath offers a GPS Base Station variant integrating a Swift Navigation Duro receiver

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• SolarCleano

  Outbound - Positioning & Navigation - SolarCleano uses Swift Navigation's Skylark Precise Positioning Service for accurate localization of autonomous solar-panel cleaning robots

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• AI.Land

  Outbound - Positioning & Navigation - AI.Land uses Swift Navigation Skylark Precise Positioning Service to support autonomous agricultural navigation and selective weeding

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• Essential Aero

  Outbound - Positioning & Navigation - Essential Aero uses Swift Navigation Skylark Nx RTK for centimetre-level positioning and geofencing in its FOD robots

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• 2025-07-23 - series_e - $50M - Swift Navigation secures $50 million Series E round

  Swift Navigation closed a $50 million Series E financing round to accelerate adoption of centimeter-accurate positioning for autonomy and logistics. - source: globenewswire.com

• AlTi Tiedemann Global - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• Crosslink Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• Eclipse Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• EnerTech Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• EPIQ Capital Group - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• Essentia Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• First Round Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• GRIDS Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• NEA - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• Niterra Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• Potentum Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• Shea Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23
• TELUS Global Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-23

• Timothy Harris - Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer - Harris leads Swift Navigation as it builds high-accuracy positioning for GPS-enabled autonomous vehicles and robots.
• Holger Ippach - Chief Operations Officer - Ippach leads product strategy, roadmap, product, marketing, sales, and operations for Swift Navigation, including automotive supplier relationships.
• James Tidd - Executive Vice President of Engineering - Tidd leads architecture for high-precision positioning systems used in advanced driver-assistance and autonomous systems.
• Colin Beighley - Co-Founder & Vice President of Engineering Operations - Beighley focuses on engineering operations and culture for Swift Navigation as the company scales precise GPS technology.
• Gregory Smith - Executive Vice President of Finance - Smith leads financial and operational functions as Swift Navigation scales commercial positioning technology for autonomy and location-based markets.

Events

• 2026-06-01 - Deployment - Essential Aero deploys Swift Skylark positioning on airport FOD robots

  The robots combine Skylark Nx RTK with LiDAR and are configured to halt if positional error exceeds eight centimeters. Swift says the system has supported deployments with the U.S. Air Force and FAA, with civilian pilots at four western U.S. airports. The robot platform is built on Capra Robotics hardware; the case study does not disclose unit counts or commercial contract value.

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• 2026-01-06 - Capability - Swift Navigation integrates Starling positioning with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX

  Through its standard sensor interface, DriveWorks receives the plugin's corrected position output without a custom data path. Swift combines Skylark cloud corrections with GNSS, inertial sensing and wheel odometry for lane-level positioning. The plugin was available when announced, but Swift did not identify a named vehicle production programme.

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• 2026-01-05 - Partnership - Swift Navigation and Raven Connected launch spatial intelligence partnership

  The 5 January 2026 agreement embeds Swift’s Skylark service into Raven’s AI onboard units, turning service vehicles into high-precision mapping sensors. The integrated platform detects and geocodes signage, lane markings and road defects while generating a live digital twin for municipal and fleet maintenance teams. The announcement positions the same data stream as a future source of high-definition, self-healing map data for autonomous-vehicle validation, but does not name a specific customer deployment.

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• 2025-07-23 - Funding - Swift Navigation secures $50 million Series E round

  Swift Navigation announced completion of a 50 million dollar Series E financing round. The round was led by Crosslink Capital with existing and new investor participation. Swift said its Skylark service powers ADAS-enabled and autonomous vehicles, outdoor robots and IoT devices for precision logistics.

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• 2022-10-18 - Funding - Swift Navigation closes Series D financing

  SK Inc. and Potentum Partners led the completed $100 million Series D. Existing and new investors participated. Two same-date certificate share classes are consolidated into one public transaction.

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• 2021-02-09 - Funding - Swift Navigation closes Series C financing

  NEA and Eclipse Ventures led the completed $50 million Series C. EPIQ Capital Group and KDDI Open Innovation Fund joined. The capital supported deployments and worldwide expansion.

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• 2017-06-28 - Funding - Swift Navigation closes Series B financing

  New Enterprise Associates led the completed $34 million Series B. Eclipse Ventures and First Round Capital participated. The capital supported deployments, hiring and engineering research.

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• 2017-03-28 - Partnership - Swift Navigation and Carnegie Robotics partner on precision GNSS for robotics

  Swift Navigation and Carnegie Robotics partnered on combined precision GNSS and inertial technology. The collaboration targeted autonomous vehicles, outdoor robotics and machine-control systems. The companies planned to unveil their first joint product line at AUVSI Xponential 2017.

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• 2015-12-08 - Funding - Swift Navigation closes Series A financing

  Eclipse Ventures led the completed $11 million Series A. NEA, Promus Ventures and returning seed investors participated. The $13.6 million cumulative total reported after the round is not stored as the discrete round amount.

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• 2014-08-21 - Funding - Swift Navigation closes seed financing

  First Round Capital led the completed $2.6 million seed financing. Fall Line Capital, Felicis Ventures, Kal Vepuri, Lemnos Labs, Qualcomm Ventures and VegasTechFund participated. The capital supported precise positioning for drones, construction and autonomous machinery.

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Relationships

• NVIDIA

  Nvidia Drive Positioning Integration - Swift Starling positioning integrates natively with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX through DriveWorks.

• Raven Connected

  Spatial Intelligence Integration - Swift Skylark positioning integrates with Raven Connected AI video telematics.

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• Fixposition

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• Inertial Sense

  stack adjacency - GNSS Ins · Robot Localization

• ANavS

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• VectorNav

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• Exail

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Context tags

• Robot localization - Capability - Swift Navigation is tracked as a positioning supplier for autonomy and robotics.
• GNSS/INS - Stack Layer - Swift Navigation supplies GNSS positioning technology for autonomous systems.