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Skyline Nav AI

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Cambridge, Massachusetts firm founded 2020 making Pathfinder camera-and-IMU navigation for GPS-denied drones and vehicles; holds an AFWERX SBIR Phase II award.

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Company Overview

Skyline Nav AI, Inc. is a navigation technology company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that develops Pathfinder, a GPS-independent positioning system for drones, aircraft, ground vehicles and boats. The company was founded in 2020 in the Greater Boston area by Kanwar Singh, chief executive and a member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, and Dr. Rajeev (Raj) Surati, who heads research and development. Singh had previously studied image-based navigation with the Army Research Lab. The company describes itself as founded by US military veterans, 100% employee-owned and NDAA-compliant.

Pathfinder estimates absolute latitude and longitude from an onboard camera and an inertial measurement unit by matching live imagery against pre-downloaded satellite datasets, so it does not depend on satellite, cellular or Wi-Fi links. It can switch between GPS, camera and IMU sources and is offered as a hardware-agnostic SDK for ARM, x86 and Apple M-series CPUs and for NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm and Intel GPUs, with support for night-vision cameras and low-light operation.

The product family has four parts. Pathfinder Air provides position output for drones and fixed-wing aircraft through take-off, flight and landing without GPS. Pathfinder Edge packages the software in a 300 g, 84 x 112 x 56 mm plug-and-play box drawing 60 W at 15 V; the company states sub-5-metre accuracy over high- and medium-texture terrain, US manufacture, capacity of more than 10,000 units per month, and list prices from USD 1,000 to 3,000 per unit depending on volume and NDAA compliance. Pathfinder Land targets cars and trucks and is reported to have held 99.98% accuracy over a 17-mile (28 km) drive using only camera and IMU, with demonstrations in 24 cities in North America, Europe and Asia. Pathfinder Copilot is a web dashboard for planning, monitoring and debriefing missions, and a Pathfinder Simulator supports training for GPS-denied scenarios on quadcopter, fixed-wing and VTOL aircraft.

The main market is defense and public safety, where GPS jamming and spoofing are operational risks. In May 2025 the company received a 1.25 million US dollar, 21-month SBIR Phase II award from AFWERX to integrate Pathfinder into Air Force platforms. Pathfinder is available through the GSA Schedule (47QTCA24D008X), NASA SEWP, the Army ITES-SW2 vehicle, the DARPA ERIS marketplace and the DoD Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. The company lists the US Air Force, NASA, US Army, BAE Systems, Kearfott Corporation, MIT and the NGA among organizations that have used its technology, and Draper among adopters in its contracts release. It won third prize in the ISUZU AI Innovation Challenge 2024 for commercial-vehicle navigation, competed in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Startup Battlefield, where it was listed with USD 3 million raised, and was named a Pitch the Press winner at Commercial UAV Expo.

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Pathfinder Air

Camera-and-IMU navigation software giving drones and aircraft latitude/longitude with or without GPS.

Pathfinder Edge

Plug-and-play US-made navigation box running Pathfinder for volume GPS-independent deployment on aircraft and drones.

Pathfinder Land

GPS-independent positioning for cars and trucks using only camera and IMU, without satellite, cellular or Wi-Fi.

Pathfinder Copilot

Operator web dashboard for planning, monitoring and debriefing Pathfinder missions across drones and crewed aircraft.

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Contact Skyline Nav AI

WEBSITE

https://www.skylinenav.com

EMAIL

[email protected]

HEADQUARTERS

Cambridge , Massachusetts

United States

Company Facts

Founded

2020

Primary Role

Software/Algorithm

Company Size

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Primary Region

North America

Annual Sales

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Funding Stage

Grant / Non-profit

Funding Total

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