04.30.24-Startup-Ecosystem-Conference-Startups-Skyline-Nav-AI

KANWAR SINGH: Hello, MIT. It's an honor to be here, for someone who went to Harvard, at an MIT conference. By a show of hands, how many of you have seen struggles with GPS, with package delivery, et cetera, and just struggling with driving around in urban areas? Yeah? Quite a few of you? Yeah, it's a big problem. 4 billion of us live in urban areas. And we all struggle with this problem due to this urban canyon challenge, which costs us time and money. I'm also an Army officer in the Massachusetts Army National Guard.

My friend, Tom, when he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan lost GPS. That's a position no company commander wants to be in because that might mean you may not be able to bring your troops back home. This is also a problem if we were to have significant solar storms right at home or if an adversary took out GPS on a large scale. An estimate suggests that US economy would lose about $45 billion in economic output in the first 30 days alone. 911, public services, package delivery, rideshare, precision agriculture-- everything would come to a complete halt without GPS.

And that's what we are committed to fixing. Our mission is to provide a superior alternative to GPS in areas it cannot reach and improve GPS where it fails. And we want to do this on land, air, sea, and the space as well. And we want to do this without any connectivity to a satellite, cellular, or Wi-Fi connectivity whatsoever. Introducing our newest product, Skyline Match AI. Simply by taking a picture of what's around you, we can automatically detect skylines, match them against pre-existing reference data sets, and give you a location back.

So if you get lost, we want to help you get back on track. Here's an example from New York City. As you can see, we can detect these skylines using our computer vision algorithms. In fact, in urban areas, we can get you within 5 meters 95% of the time simply by taking a clear picture of what's around you. And since this is a software technology, there is no need to install bulky and expensive hardware. We have already proven our capability effective in 40 regions around the world. Go to our website, skylinenav.com/demo to see all the results in action.

And if there is a specific region in mind, reach out. We'd love to work with you to prove this capability out. We're also just taking this technology to the moon. In fact, a few months ago, we actually won NASA's space challenge as the only position and navigation company. You see, a lot of companies are focused right now on propulsion and other issues. But what happens when you actually are trying to land and navigate on the moon? And that's where Skyline Nav AI comes in.

We'll be able to detect skylines and terrain features, just on the moon, same that we are doing on Earth as well. Our business model is similar to the Shazam music app. Just like Shazam helps you figure out that song that you can't get out of your head, we help you get to your exact location without getting you lost. We offer an iOS product, which is dual use for military and commercial use. We also have an Android product for US military and our ally use. And finally, most importantly, we have an API-access product for our commercial customers who want to integrate our technology on their proprietary position and navigation platforms.

There's five specific verticals of customers and prospects we are working with right now. This includes logistics, package delivery, US military, automobiles, and space. In fact, I was at a Google conference a few weeks ago, and we have been able to validate for companies like UPS, Fedex, Walmart. They lose a lot of money delivering packages at the wrong places. That's where we come in. And we can help you get to the exact location on time.

And we are not just a concept. Over the past four years, we have received $1.4 million in grants and paid pilots from many of the customers, who include the US Air Force, US Army, NASA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and many more. Most recently, we signed a collaboration agreement with BAE Systems, and we are working very closely with them to integrate our technology on their platforms. We have two additional strategic partnerships in works right now that you will, hopefully, hear about very soon.

So my ask for you, is if you have a requirement for better accuracy and precision than just GPS alone, reach out. I'd love to work with you. And here's our team. Our team has deep background and expertise in computer vision, military, commercial, intelligence use cases. And by the way, my cofounder did go to MIT, so that's why we are here. We didn't just scam our way in here. [LAUGHS] And so we are able to understand your needs in position and navigation and get you to the exact location.

It is 2024. We need to move beyond GPS. And that's why I'm here, so we can actually get you on time and get your package delivered in the right place and at the right time. Please reach out if you have any questions. Skyline Nav AI. I'm Kanwar Singh, and I'd love to meet you outside in the booth. Thank you so much.

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