GoodMaps
Year founded: 2019
Number of employees: 13
Founder: American Printing House for the Blind
Amount of capital raised: About $6.5 million
Notable investors: American Printing House for the Blind, National Federation of the Blind, HumanWare and Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Explain what your company does: Indoor digital mapping, infrastructure-free hyper-accurate indoor positioning, and universal navigation
What are some major milestones in the company’s history?
- Selected as Intel technology partner
- Largest installation of accessible navigation in a transit setting (seven stations in the UK)
- CES Innovation award
What is your company working on right now?
- Finalizing a round of fundraising
- New iteration of universal navigation product
- Building out our sales/business development function
- Streamlining operations
What’s on the horizon for your company in 2022?
- Aggressive growth
- Taking advantage of recent infrastructure bill
- Rolling out internally-developed machine-learning model
- European expansion
Why grow your company from Kentucky?
Relationship with the American Printing House, support from local ecosystem and low cost of doing business.
