
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: Geospatial AI company building a real-time semantic 3D digital twin of the planet (VEOS)
Flagship uses: 3D reconstruction, no-code model training, synthetic environments, simulation/visualization
Notable partnership: Technology used in Microsoft Flight Simulator
Funding: Reported total funding ≈ $35M (Series A + extension)
Headquarters: Austria
Automating extraction and semantic reconstruction of geospatial features from imagery to produce scalable 3D digital twins and synthetic environments.
2020
Software Development
$20,000,000
Announced Series A to develop and scale replica-Earth technology.
$15,000,000
Oversubscribed extension bringing total Series A to $35M; investors include existing and new backers reported such as Point72 Ventures, M12 and strategic investors.
“Includes strategic and institutional backers such as M12 (Microsoft's venture fund), Point72 Ventures and Maxar Technologies”
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