Mapillary
Swedish service for sharing crowdsourced geotagged photos
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| August 2023 | Mapillary reached a milestone of 2 billion photos in its collection. |
| August 2020 | Mapillary announced expanded camera availability for contributors to increase streetside coverage in more locations. |
| June 2020 | Facebook acquired Mapillary for an undisclosed amount, subsequently making commercial use of the platform free of charge. |
| 2018 | Mapillary acquired major image datasets from the Vermont Department of Transportation and the Arizona Department of Transportation, with each department contributing approximately 5 million images to the platform. |
| November 2018 | Mapillary released a software development kit (SDK) allowing third-party developers to integrate Mapillary image-capture functionality into their apps. |
| October 2018 | Mapillary was featured on CNBC's annual list of top 100 start-ups to watch. |
| September 2018 | Mapillary announced a collaboration with Amazon to use Rekognition for extracting text from its 350 million image database, focusing initially on identifying and extracting parking sign information. |
| March 2018 | Mapillary received $15 million investment led by BMW i Ventures, bringing its total estimated funding to $25 million. |
| March 2016 | Mapillary raised an additional $8 million in funding from Atomico, Sequoia, LDV Capital, and PlayFair to expand operations and hire more computer vision talent, including opening a San Francisco office. |
| June 11 2015 | Mapillary exceeded 20 million photos in its platform. |
| January 2015 | Mapillary received $1.5 million in seed capital funding, led by Sequoia Capital to support its growth and development. |
| December 2014 | Mapillary reached over 5.5 million photos in its collection. |
| September 10 2014 | Mapillary announced support for panoramas and spherical photos, expanding their image capture capabilities. |
| January 2014 | Mapillary launched its Android app, further extending its mobile image collection capabilities. |
| 2013 | Mapillary was launched as a crowdsourced street-level imagery service by Mapillary AB, a remote company based in Malmö, Sweden. |
| November 2013 | Mapillary released its first iPhone app, expanding its mobile platform for street-level image collection. |
| September 2013 | Mapillary was founded by co-founders Jan Erik Solem, Johan Gyllenspetz, Peter Neubauer, and Yubin Kuang to enable crowdsourcing of street-level imagery for computer vision purposes. |
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