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Redefining handheld reality capture

Experience an unrivalled combination of agility, ergonomics, and outstanding data quality from a handheld device.

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About

BUILD BETTER REALITY — Bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds through reality capture technology that provides the digital foundation for the world you want to live in. We supply fast, reliable spatial data to service providers and enterprises seeking to capture photorealistic digital twins of the built environment. And our digital factory solutions enable greater organizational operability, productivity, agility, and profitability. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, and with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China, NavVis serves global customers across the surveying, AEC, and manufacturing industries.

Who we are

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
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Birgit Tenhofen Vice President of People, Culture & Sustainability
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Robert Stockmann Vice President of Marketing
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Nora Arendt Vice President, Global Head of Customer Experience
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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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Daniela Müller Director of Production
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Dr. Lorenz Lachauer Director of Market Intelligence & Strategy
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DR. 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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Matthew Delano Director, Global Head of Sales
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Patrick Schönemann Director, Global Head of Enterprise Sales
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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

+1 332 217 2450

Los Angeles

US Office

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

+1 323 925 7901

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

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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