Felicis’ Post

We raised $21.5 Million for Wherobots! Our journey began when I, then a computer science professor, met Jia Yu, who was completing his PhD at ASU. We quickly bonded over our shared passion for geospatial data and saw its largely untapped potential. We realized that existing data warehousing and analytics tools were fundamentally built for internet data, not geospatial data. As a result, they underperform, and lack key features for intuitive geospatial analysis. On the other hand, legacy geospatial tools live in a silo, are often closed-source, or built on outdated architectures, making geospatial solutions inaccessible for most organizations. To address this, we created Apache Sedona, an open-source geospatial compute framework that has since achieved over 40 million downloads and is used by companies like Amazon and Land O’ Lakes for planetary-scale workloads. After years of growing Apache Sedona, we saw the need for a more comprehensive enterprise solution and launched Wherobots, a fully managed, scalable cloud platform designed to make geospatial solutions easy to build within the modern data and AI ecosystem. This round is led by Felicis—huge thanks to Aydin Senkut and Gabriella G.! Felicis continues to revolutionize the VC industry with their founder-friendly approach and bold investments. We’re also grateful for the strong support from our existing investors, Wing Venture Capital and Clear Ventures. A big thank you to Peter Wagner from Wing VC  who has a keen eye and the patience to back transformative data and AI infrastructure companies like Snowflake, Pinecone, and now Wherobots.  Our friends at Clear Ventures deserve special recognition—Chris Rust and Noor Kamruddin, your targeted AI platform for identifying promising investments and your early belief in us during the uncertain pre-commercial phase mean so much. Lastly, thank you to P7 (Abhishek Shukla) and JetBlue (Ryan Chou) for your participation in this round. We’re excited for the journey ahead! I want to take a moment to thank and applaud the incredible Wherobots team. Over the past two years, we've experienced an astounding 1000% growth. I'm truly humbled to work alongside such talented individuals who make my job both enjoyable and rewarding. This team's dedication and talent inspire confidence in achieving remarkable outcomes now and in the future. Let’s keep it going, Botsters! In closing, I want to emphasize that this is just the beginning. We understand that bringing our vision to life requires collaboration, which is why we’re proud to partner with leading cloud providers like AWS. If you’re already on AWS, you can start leveraging Wherobots today to power your geospatial workloads. The journey ahead is exciting, and we’re thrilled to have you with us!