{"id":67868,"date":"2017-06-29T17:47:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/swift-navigation-raised-34-million-in-latest-funding-round\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T17:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:47:30","slug":"swift-navigation-raised-34-million-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/swift-navigation-raised-34-million-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift Navigation Raised $34 Million in Latest Funding Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swift Navigation<\/strong>, a San Francisco tech firm building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power autonomous vehicles, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series B financing round led by Forest Baskett and Greg Papadopoulos of <strong>New Enterprise Associates<\/strong> (NEA), with participation from existing investors <strong>Eclipse<\/strong> and <strong>First Round Capital<\/strong>. To date, the company has raised a total of $47.6 million in funding.<\/p>\n<p>With its Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) solutions, Swift Navigation stated it serves more than 2,000 customers, including autonomous vehicles, precision agriculture, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), robotics, maritime, transportation\/logistics and outdoor industrial applications. According to Swift Navigation, by moving GPS positioning from custom hardware to a flexible software-based receiver, the company can deliver Real Time Kinematics (RTK) GPS that is 100 times more accurate than traditional GPS found in a typical phone.<\/p>\n<p>With the influx of financial support, Swift Navigation plans to take customer deployments to scale while growing its team and investing in core engineering and Research and Development (R&amp;D). The company will introduce additional products in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swift Navigation, a San Francisco tech firm building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power autonomous vehicles, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series B financing round led by Forest Baskett and Greg Papadopoulos of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from existing investors Eclipse and First Round Capital. To date, the company has raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}