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52°North

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Blurb

52°North is a nonprofit research organization that develops new concepts, technologies and applications for geoinformation infrastructures.

HQ Location

Münster (Germany)

Founded

2006

Employees

11 - 50

Total funding raised

Not available

Last Funding Event

Not available

Smart insights

  • Catherine Msc (Chief People Officer) worked at Lilium as Head of People Business Partnering for 1.5 years (2021 - 2022)
  • Val Miftakhov (Founder & CEO) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of R&D, Google for Work Incubation, for a total of 4 years (2012 - 2016)
  • 6m headcount growth: 25%
  • 1Y headcount growth: 94%
  • Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 5.3 employees/$M

52°North is a private non-profit research organization in the field of geoinformatics. We develop new concepts, technologies and innovative applications for geoinformation infrastructures. We are a multidisciplinary team of about 20 researchers, software engineers and data scientists, working on topics such as Sensor Web Technologies, data analytics and near real-time processing of very large volumes of spatio-temporal data. 52°North contributes to many national and international research projects. The application domains are diverse and range from environmental monitoring, disaster control, smart cities to Industry 4.0. Furthermore, 52°North supports customers as a trusted advisor and provides qualified consulting and software development services.