About
Build On. Reality You Trust. — NavVis is the Source of Spatial Truth for the built world. Founded in 2013, the company was built on a single conviction: the people who build and operate the physical world deserve to know exactly what that world looks like, and to keep knowing it as that world changes.
Today NavVis combines survey-grade mobile reality capture (VLX, MLX, and CLX) with IVION. Together, they provide a managed, versioned and accessible System of Record, reflecting a facility or work site as it stands today. Every engineering tool and every intelligent system reads from the same source. More than two billion square meters of industrial plants, construction sites, and buildings are held on IVION, cutting rework and downtime and forming the foundation for automation, analytics, and AI-grounded decisions at scale.
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- Executive & Founding team
- Regional team
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Investors
"NavVis is one of the very finest German B2B IndustrialTech companies. A global leader out of Germany."
“[NavVis's] groundbreaking technology enables the easy digitization of the built environment, which, combined with strong leadership, has allowed NavVis to grow strongly.”
US Office
WeWork Dock 72
1 Dock 72 Way, Suite 08-155
Brooklyn, NY 11249
USA
US Office
WeWork
10000 Washington Blvd, Suite 07-104
Culver City, CA 90232
USA
UK Office
170 Edmund Street,
Birmingham, B3 2HB
United Kingdom
China Office
Unit 1006, Donghai Soho,
299 Tongren Rd., Jingan District,
Shanghai, China
Our founders
CTO
Co-Head of NavVis IVION
Head of Positioning and Mobile
CEO
Company timeline
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2007 - It began with a vision
During his stay at the Stanford University GPS Lab, PhD student Georg Schroth comes up with the idea of a fundamentally new approach to indoor positioning based on computer vision. This topic later became the basis of his research at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
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2013 - Company founded
McKinsey consultant Felix Reinshagen joins the research team of Georg Schroth, Robert Huitl and Sebastian Hilsenbeck to found NavVis. The startup is incubated with support from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
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2014 - A busy year
- Series A Funding
- NavVis M3 mobile mapping system
- NavVis IndoorViewer introduced
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2015 - More investment
NavVis receives €7.5 million Series B funding. Target Partners and Don Dodge (Developer Evangelist at Google) join as new investors, and MIG Fonds and BayBG increased their previous holdings.
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2016 - Global expansion
To address a growing customer base in the United States, we open our first international office in New York City.
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2018 - Further growth
- The NavVis M6 mobile mapping system
- Opening a new office in Shanghai
- Series C Funding
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2020 - Products and financing
- Launched NavVis VLX wearable mobile mapping system
- Received financing from the European Investment Bank
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2021 - New directions
- NavVis IndoorViewer becomes NavVis IVION
- Opening a second office the United States, in Los Angeles
- Closed another funding round
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2022 - Company focused
- Opened an office in the United Kingdom
- Awarded one of Business Punk's "Top-Startup Employers" of the year
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2023 - New products & features
- Launched the person blurring feature in NavVis IVION
- Launched NavVis VLX 3, the new cornerstone of reality capture
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2024 - Redefining the industry
- Launched NavVis MLX, redefining handheld reality capture
- Launched the rescan workflow in NavVis IVION
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2026 – Expanding the NavVis LX-Series
- Launched NavVis CLX, bringing everyday reliability to handheld reality capture
- Introduced Cross-Dataset Alignment in NavVis IVION Processing to simplify alignment across multiple datasets












