// About Zephr

Spatial intelligence
for the AI era.

A team of startup veterans and positioning PhDs — with multiple successful exits and over 75 academic publications — building the next generation of spatial intelligence.

// Our mission

Precise, private, AI-native location for every device.

Consumer GPS chips have barely improved in twenty years. Zephr moves the positioning engine off the chip and into software — delivering sub-meter accuracy and full 6DoF orientation on ordinary Android hardware.

Paired with AI-native place data and on-device LLMs, Zephr gives any application a complete understanding of where it is and what surrounds it — without specialized hardware, without data leaving the device.

We've conducted advanced research in government and commercial navigation — enhancing warfighter situational awareness, improving rideshare accuracy, and advancing pedestrian safety in autonomous systems.

Founder experience
GeoIQ, Timbr.io, BlueSky, Pixel8earth
Corporate experience
Twitter, Maxar (DigitalGlobe), ESRI
Academic work
Stanford · Georgetown · UC San Diego · George Mason
Publications
75 academic pubs · 1 book · 11 patents
// The team

Leadership

Startup veterans with multiple successful exits, paired with PhDs who have spent careers advancing the frontier of positioning and spatial computing.

Sean Gorman

Sean GormanPhD

CEO / Geospatial and Product
Pramukta Rao

Pramukta RaoPhD

CTO / Physics and Engineering
Kostas Stamatiou

Kostas StamatiouPhD

Lead Engineer / EE
Scotty Nelson

Scotty Nelson

Data Scientist / Statistics
// Backed by

Our investors

Zephr is backed by a coalition of top-tier venture capital firms and research labs with deep expertise in PNT technologies.

Space Capital

Leading venture fund focused on the space economy and GPS/PNT technologies.

SRI Ventures

Venture arm of SRI International, with deep expertise in advanced technology and defense research.

First Spark Ventures

Early-stage investor in breakthrough software and hardware companies.

Read the seed round announcement →