Top Indoor Positioning Startups in 2026

Transformational IoT sensor technology that provides wire-area, real-time, and millimetre-level 3D tracking across large spaces and buildings. Main applications are industry 4.0, SCM, logistics, manufacturing, and AR/VR.

NavVis was founded in 2013 to bridge the gap between outdoor and indoor digital maps. As a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich, our computer vision based indoor positioning technology is based on years of academic research. Today, we continue to push the frontiers of reality capture & digital-twin building. Our revolutionary digital twin platform (Hardware & Software) is being used by the world’s leading automotive, construction, real estate and insurance companies. Furthermore, we have a unique value prop for Laser Scanning Professional companies with our dynamic wearable mapping device (VLX) + our SW platform IndoorViewer for visual walk-thrus of mapped spaces + point cloud creation. We now have over 100 partners in more than 30 countries worldwide deploying our technology. NavVis is headquartered in Munich and has offices in New York and Shanghai, currently employing over 200 people across the globe.

Humatics is pioneering microlocation technology, offering millimeter- and centimeter-scale positioning that is faster, more precise, and more affordable than any 3D positioning or location tracking technology on the market. Its breakthrough microlocation system and analytics software comprise a Spatial Intelligence Platform™ that will revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate, and collaborate in the connected world. With its extensible architecture and application programming interfaces (APIs), the Humatics Spatial Intelligence Platform™ will power an ecosystem of new position-based products and services with the promise to transform huge markets including industrial automation, next-generation construction, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Humatics was founded in 2015 by CEO David Mindell and President Gary Cohen.

Ariadne enables you to identify most visited places and products inside your shops. Ariadne provides detailed analytics in indoor places, such as customer revisits, walking paterns, visited areas and products, duration of customer visits and others. Ariadne respects the privacy of the users. Hence, enables anonymous tracking following state-of-the-art anonymization techniques. Ariadne does not require smartphone app installations or any connection on a network. Ariadne can monitor more than 80% of customers when competitive solutions can only monitor up to 20%.

Oriient helps brick-and-mortar retailers integrate their stores into the shopper’s digital experience. As the role of the brick-and-mortar store changes with the advent of m-commerce and e-commerce, retailers must provide their shoppers with an engaging digital experience along the entire customer journey, or lose their foot traffic. Oriient enables them to extend the digital experience into the store itself, reaching the shopper at the exact place and time for the purchase decision. Through proprietary technology, Oriient transforms every store into a “smart store”, giving shoppers a fun and engaging shopping experience while providing retailers with full visibility into the shopper journey and novel ways of connecting with the shopper where it matters the most. We bridge the offline-online gap!