
Blackshark.ai is a geospatial AI company that creates a real-time, accurate, semantic, photorealistic 3D digital twin of the entire planet by extracting insights from satellite and aerial imagery using machine learning at global scale. Their platform offers end-to-end geospatial solutions including no-code data labeling, geointelligence at scale, 3D semantic maps, synthetic environments, and specialized products like ORCA™HUNTR for no-code AI object detection, SYNTH3D for synthetic 3D globe data, and Digital Airports. Their technology supports visualization, simulation, mapping, mixed reality, and enterprise applications, with massive cloud computing enabling rapid updates. Blackshark.ai's AI-driven terrain generation technology is used in professional flight simulators, sensor simulation, urban planning, and defense training, with partnerships including Microsoft Flight Simulator and Bohemia Interactive Simulations. The company offers flexible deployment options including cloud, edge, hybrid, and air-gapped environments, and supports integration with Unreal Engine, Unity, NVIDIA Omniverse, and other platforms. Blackshark.ai is headquartered in Austria and serves global clients with a team of experts in AI, geospatial intelligence, and simulation.

Blackshark.ai is a geospatial AI company that creates a real-time, accurate, semantic, photorealistic 3D digital twin of the entire planet by extracting insights from satellite and aerial imagery using machine learning at global scale. Their platform offers end-to-end geospatial solutions including no-code data labeling, geointelligence at scale, 3D semantic maps, synthetic environments, and specialized products like ORCA™HUNTR for no-code AI object detection, SYNTH3D for synthetic 3D globe data, and Digital Airports. Their technology supports visualization, simulation, mapping, mixed reality, and enterprise applications, with massive cloud computing enabling rapid updates. Blackshark.ai's AI-driven terrain generation technology is used in professional flight simulators, sensor simulation, urban planning, and defense training, with partnerships including Microsoft Flight Simulator and Bohemia Interactive Simulations. The company offers flexible deployment options including cloud, edge, hybrid, and air-gapped environments, and supports integration with Unreal Engine, Unity, NVIDIA Omniverse, and other platforms. Blackshark.ai is headquartered in Austria and serves global clients with a team of experts in AI, geospatial intelligence, and simulation.
What they do: Build a GPU-native platform to create a semantic, photorealistic 3D digital twin of Earth from satellite and aerial imagery
Founded: 2020
HQ: Austria
Notable customers / integrations: Microsoft Flight Simulator; integrations with Unreal Engine, Unity, NVIDIA Omniverse
Disclosed funding: Total $35M (Series A + extension)
Automating extraction of 2D and 3D geospatial features from imagery to produce global-scale digital twins and synthetic environments.
2020
Software Development
$20,000,000
Announced Series A to develop and scale the digital twin technology.
$15,000,000
Oversubscribed extension bringing total disclosed Series A to $35M; participating investors included Point72 Ventures, M12, Maxar, In-Q-Tel, Safran, ISAI Cap Venture, Einstein Industries Venture and others.
“Includes strategic and corporate investors (M12, Point72 Ventures, Maxar, In-Q-Tel, Safran) alongside VC and institutional backers”
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