Early Access: RIFT Spatial Technologies Inc.

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Last week, we explored Roam, a fintech platform building the first comprehensive financial operating system for global student mobility. Today, we’re shifting our focus to RIFT, a deep-tech startup building a location infrastructure that is designed to work where traditional GPS and camera vision fail.

It’s time to venture into the GPS-free world of RIFT. Let’s get to it!

The world has built its modern economy on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), but this infrastructure is notoriously fragile: failing indoors, underground, and across our oceans. RIFT is bridging this critical infrastructure gap by building location technology that works everywhere without a reliance on GPS or camera vision.

RIFT’s technology is context-aware, leveraging machine learning to decipher location by analyzing human and machine behavior in tandem with spatial data. By utilizing an advanced machine learning algorithm that combines environmental signals like Wi-Fi with natural interaction patterns, RIFT provides 1m-level precision with only 1cm of drift. So, whether it is a drone navigating a GPS-denied combat zone or a robot operating in a subterranean mine, RIFT’s technology helps ensure that "getting lost" is no longer an option.

Because the technology doesn't rely on external satellite constellations or visual light, its applications are virtually limitless. RIFT is designed to operate seamlessly across all domains–land, air, underground, and maritime–positioning the technology not just as a navigation tool, but as a technology that could embody the foundational infrastructure for the future of spatial computing.