Maxar Technologies

Using real-time data to create dynamic virtual representations of the real world

Digital Twin

Blackshark.ai has developed a digital twin platform to replicate the planet. The geospatial platform obtains data from global satellites and aerial imagery using ML and AI to create a digital twin for visualization, simulation, and mapping. The company provides various solutions to users including flight simulators (for realistic 3D flight experience), digital airports (to simulate any airport on the globe), and geospatial analytics (called Orca to extract detailed data about buildings, roads, or vegetation).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company targets industries such as gaming, cinema, government, training schools, and insurance.In February 2023, the company partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16654">Maxar Technologies</a> to launch SYNTH3D, our Earth’s synthetic digital twin. Further, in August 2020, the company collaborated with Microsoft to build Microsoft’s Flight Simulator using its digital twin platform by replicating 1.5 billion buildings from 2D satellite images.&nbsp;Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24060">November 2023</a>, the company raised USD 15 million in a Series A extension round, bringing the total Series A funding to USD 35 million. The round was led by Point72 Ventures, Maxar, M12 Microsoft's Venture Fund, and In-Q-Tel. The funds were allocated towards enhancing its 3D mapping and geospatial intelligence capabilities, and to strengthen its sales and marketing efforts.

Blackshark.ai provides a 3D digital twin of Earth by extracting information from satellite imagery and reconstructing detected attributes in photorealistic 3D fully automatically. A scalable artificial intelligence builds the core of the blackshark platform, detecting features globally with incredible precision and speed. A patented approach to 3D reconstruction can store petabytes of data and render it in infinite detail in real-time, allowing for powerful visualization and simulation applications for government, geospatial intelligence, humanitarian relief, paletary management, autonomous driving and flying, insurance, smart cities and more. The blackshark.ai platform, backed by Microsoft's venture fund M12 and Silicon Valley VC Point72 Ventures, serves large clients globally with a team of 100+ people based out of Silicon Valley/US and Graz/Austria, Europe's computer vision hub.

Aurora Insight helps companies deploy, optimize, and leverage wireless with the first dynamic map of connectivity and the radio spectrum. We are the one source of truth when it comes to available spectrum and wireless connectivity. We provide detailed insights on existing wireless infrastructure and RF environments enabling organizations to make the best business decisions.

Maxar Technologies primarily engages in providing integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence. It delivers disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate the changing planet; deliver global broadband communications; and explore and advance the use of space. The Westminster, Colorado-based company was formerly known as MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates.

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