Blackshark.ai

blackshark.ai provides a 3D digital twin of Earth by extracting information from satellite imagery and reconstructing detected attributes in photo-realistic 3D fully automatically. Applications running on the blackshark.ai platform include use cases for government, geospatial intelligence, humanitarian relief, metaverse, AR, simulation for autonomous driving and flying, deforestation monitoring, insurance, smart cities and more. The company is backed by M12 – Microsoft’s venture fund and Point72, forming a syndicate with investor Markus Wagner, founder of i5invest, and closed a strategic investment from provider of global space solutions Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR). Google Earth co-founder Brian McClendon, former Airbus Defense and Space CEO Dirk Hoke and CEO of Applied Intuition Qasar Younis serve as advisors to the board.