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Discover how you can reduce your project time by up to 80% compared to standard industry solutions
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Unlock the potential trapped in your business

Discover how you can reduce your project time by up to 80% compared to standard industry solutions

Let us help you grow
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Scanning Realities

Laser-focused insights into the current geospatial landscape and beyond

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Who we are

Bridging the gap between the physical and digital world, NavVis enables service providers and enterprises to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins.

Our SLAM-based mobile mapping systems generate high-quality data with survey-grade accuracy at speed and scale. And with our digital factory solutions, users are equipped to make better operational decisions, boost productivity, streamline business processes, and improve profitability.

About us

2013 Founded
300+ Employees
60+ Nationalities
4+ Offices

Meet the leadership team

  • Executive team
  • Functional team
  • Regional team
  • Industry advisor
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Dr. Felix Reinshagen Chief Executive Officer / Co-founder
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Dr. Georg Schroth Chief Technology Officer / Co-founder
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Finn Boysen Chief Revenue Officer
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Jeno Schadrack Chief Financial Officer
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Sebastian Hilsenbeck Director, Head of Positioning & Mobile / Co-Founder
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Robert Huitl Technical Director of NavVis IVION / Co-Founder
Birgit-Tenhofen
Birgit Tenhofen Vice President of People, Culture & Sustainability
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Robert Stockmann Vice President of Marketing
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Dr. Ignacio Pérez Hallerbach Director, Global Head of Partners & Platform
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Lisa Patterson Director of Product Management Reality Access
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Florin Baca Director of Global IT Infrastructure
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Stefan Sander Director of Enterprise Professional Services
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Dr. Lorenz Lachauer Director of Market Intelligence & Strategy
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Stefan Romberg Director, Head of Mapping & Perception
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Andreas Goebel Director of Hardware Design & Engineering
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Mandolin Maidt Director of Hardware Design & Engineering
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Hans Hiptmair Director, Head of NavVis IVION
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Daniel Ackerson Vice President of Engineering
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Michael Schölkopf Director of Product Management Reality Capture
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Daniela Müller Director of Production
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Jimmy Li Director, Head of Greater China
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Andreas Drescher Head of Asia Pacific & Japan
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Evan McPhee Director, Head of North America
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Knudt Flor Professor of Industry Practice and Innovation at the SC State University College of Charleston

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Investors

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Axel KriegerFounding Partner & Managing Director at Yttrium

"NavVis is one of the very finest German B2B IndustrialTech companies. A global leader out of Germany."

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Dr. Ansgar KirchheimPartner at Cipio Partners

[NavVis's] groundbreaking technology enables the easy digitization of the built environment, which, combined with strong leadership, has allowed NavVis to grow strongly.

Our offices

Global Headquarters
NavVis GmbH

Blutenburgstr. 18
80636 Munich, Germany

New York

US Office

433 Broadway, Suite 410
New York City, NY 10013
USA

Los Angeles

US Office

10000 Washington Blvd
Suite 07-104
Culver City, CA 90232
USA

Birmingham

UK Office

170 Edmund Street,
Birmingham, B3 2HB
United Kingdom

Shanghai

China Office

Unit 1006, Donghai Soho,
299 Tongren Rd., Jingan District,
Shanghai, China

Our founders

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Company timeline

  • Timeline-1

    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

    • The NavVis VLX mobile mapping system
    • 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

    • Opening 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