Geographic Information System Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Aviern builds unmanned airplanes that turn the sky into a geospatial intelligence source. Our fixed-wing aircraft launch, fly, and land from unattended docks along infrastructure corridors, with onboard perception that flags leaks, encroachments, and vegetation risk with no pilot in the loop. We're starting with PHMSA-mandated pipeline patrol, where operators still pay helicopter crews to fly their lines up to 26 times a year, and we sell per mile as a service. The same aircraft, docks, and intelligence stack extend to the power grid, rail, borders, and bases.

AI agents are starting to act in the real world, but they can't reliably understand it. Every fact about a place has its own silo: land in GIS maps, power in utility portals, people in census tables, policy in county PDFs. All built for humans, none for agents. Underneath, the data is fragmented across thousands of sources, unstructured and complex. Mireye is building the infrastructure that powers agents to make decisions and act in the real world. One API and MCP to connect agents to the physical world with accurate data enrichment, signals and tools. Our mission is to index every inch of the earth, and make it as queryable as the web.

Monarcha is an AI-powered georeferencing platform built for mining, infrastructure, and land intelligence teams. It turns scanned maps, plats, and land documents into accurate, queryable spatial data in seconds. Aligning historical maps, plats, and survey drawings to real-world coordinates is tedious work. Most teams either hire specialists or skip it entirely, leaving critical spatial data locked in documents. Monarcha lets users upload any document and get a fully georeferenced, queryable GIS layer in 90 seconds or less. Want to learn more? Check out monarcha.ai

Bunting Labs researches and develops custom AI models for surveying and GIS.

Datlo is a geointelligence platform made for sales and marketing folks. In seconds you can conduct market research, find new customers, and distribution channels for your company. All of that without needing a data scientist or a programmer.

Matidor.com is a project management software for projects where you need to see what's happening live on a map. Natural resources companies such as energy operators and consultants manage their environmental activities across thousands of locations. Instead of switching between spreadsheets, they need to visualize their projects on a map and zoom into each one of them for details such as site drawings, tasks, costs and communications. https://matidor.com

**GENERAL** Geosite is an enterprise SaaS platform for spatial data. Through pairing a marketplace with integrated data management and collaboration tools, Geosite enables customers to leverage spatial data for more rapid and accurate planning and operations. This platform is a dual use technology for both commercial and military customers. // **SPACE PEOPLE** Geosite is a cloud-based platform creating a comprehensive repository of geospatial data, such as satellite imagery, through the aggregation of public and commercially available data, providing market-wide ability to rapidly search, select, purchase, assemble, and manage data sets. This will not only create the most comprehensive and exhaustive marketplace for geospatial data and analytics, but also build the underlying data infrastructure for the geospatial industry. This marketplace, for both analytics and data, will enable customers from Oil and Gas companies to US Special Operations to access and consume data from many sources for greater operational efficiency and safety. // **O&G PEOPLE** Geosite is a data platform for Oil and Gas companies that allows customers to bring together their data for a clearer picture of the world. Over 80% of information has a spatial component to it, rarely is this being leveraged to add to the bottom line for Oil and Gas companies. With the proliferation of satellites and distributed sensors (IOT), we are at a juncture of immense opportunity for Oil and Gas exploration to reach an operational efficiency that was impossible only a few years ago. Geosite allows for cutting edge logistics planning and operational tracking to increase safety and productivity.