Mapsense raises $2.5M

What does Mapsense do?

Mapsense, is a new startup which is helping developers make sense of location data they are collection a set of tools which can be used to overlay info gleaned from users of top of various demographic maps available on its platform. It helps people explore location based trends quicker than before, so anybody can tame the increasing geospatial data.

There are 10 billion devices which collect location data which did not exist a few years ago, but Mapsense helps people deal with this huge geospatial data by providing lightning fast tools which search, filter and visualize the location data at any scale. Mapsense is set to improve the world by enabling people in answering important questions about what is happening where in the world. Mapsense team consists of a group of engineering, computer and product scientists from Plantis, Google and Ivy League. It is backed by tier one venture capitalists working with innovative companies in the world.

How much Mapsense was funded?

Mapsense raised $2.5M in Seed round on May 27, 2015 from Amplify.LA, Redpoint Ventures, Gil Elbaz, General Catalyst Partners and Formation 8.

Previous funding

• Undisclosed amount in Seed funding on January 23, 2014 from LA

What is next for Mapsense?

It has launched Mapsense Enterprise, a set of sophisticated geovisualization, analysis and segmentation tools for terabytes of data. The funding will be used to launch developer tools for analyzing and visualizing location data.

More about Mapsense

Mapsense was founded in 2013 by Mikey Watts and Erez Cohen. It has its headquarters in San Francisco, CA. It specializes in tools and service for understanding big location data sets. It provides location driven insight for this massive data era. Its mapping engine and developer tools help people quickly build interactive and powerfull applications for unlocking the value in their huge and streaming datasets.