About

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).

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).

• Series A Funding
• NavVis M3 mobile mapping system
• NavVis IndoorViewer introduced

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.

To address a growing customer base in the United States, we open our first international office in New York City.

• The NavVis M6 mobile mapping system
• Opening a new office in Shanghai
• Series C Funding

• Launched NavVis VLX wearable mobile mapping system
• Received financing from the European Investment Bank

• NavVis IndoorViewer becomes NavVis IVION
• Opening a second office the United States, in Los Angeles
• Closed another funding round

• Opened an office in the United Kingdom
• Awarded one of Business Punk's "Top-Startup Employers" of the year

• Launched the person blurring feature in NavVis IVION
• Launched NavVis VLX 3, the new cornerstone of reality capture

• Launched NavVis MLX, redefining handheld reality capture
• Launched the rescan workflow in NavVis IVION