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Kenneth Ehrman and the fence that could follow the dog
He spent two decades helping companies keep track of vehicles. Then a dog named Ruby sent the I.D. Systems co-founder toward a different question: could a fence travel with the family?
James MacLean III and the expensive art of knowing where things are
He liked the helicopters and the odd hours. Then James MacLean III built Geoforce around a problem he knew from the oilfield: getting the right equipment to the right place before the clock became the enemy.
Eric Siegfried and the trouble with an open landscape
He built onX to answer a hunter’s question: whose land is this? His next challenge was harder - helping people reach the public land they already owned.
Charles R. Trimble saw a future in the reject pile
Hewlett-Packard canceled the projects. Charlie Trimble bought them. His route from marine navigation to commercial GPS explains why he still backs ideas before they have proof.
Rand McNally maps the road. Now it reads the truck.
The name on the family road atlas now sells fleet software, truck navigation and safety intelligence. Its most interesting map is the one that explains what a driver did before an incident.
Garmin Spent 35 Years Being Unfashionable - Then the Fashionable Watch Blinked
It builds watches for people who leave the pavement, cockpits for people who leave the ground, and sonar for people who leave the dock. In 2025 the unglamorous approach paid a record $7.25 billion.
Space Capital Is Betting the Next Great Software Platform Is 12,000 Miles Up
The New York venture firm treats rockets as plumbing and satellite data as raw material. Its real wager is that GPS, geospatial intelligence and satellite communications will become the quiet infrastructure beneath everyday business.
oneNav, Inc.
oneNav is a Silicon Valley semiconductor startup building the world's first L5-direct GNSS receiver - a chip architecture that skips the aging GPS L1 band entirely and uses the modern L5 satellite signal to deliver positioning that is more accurate, lower-power, and far harder to jam or spoof. Founded in 2019 by Steve Poizner and Dr. Paul McBurney, the company sells IP cores and ASICs to smartphone, wearable, IoT and defense customers.
Jacqueline Ramos
Jacqueline Ramos is a seasoned Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience, currently supporting the COO, CMO for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMA), and VP for Global Partner Solutions (GPS) in the EMEA region. Based in Dubai, UAE, she has built her Microsoft career from the ground up - starting as an Executive Assistant to the Gulf Services Director in 2008, rising through roles in business operations, and eventually becoming an executive-level administrator supporting some of the company's most senior regional leaders. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of San Jose-Recoletos in the Philippines and has leveraged her technical grounding alongside exceptional organizational and leadership skills to become one of Microsoft's most trusted operational connectors across its vast Middle East and global operations.
John Gedmark
John Gedmark is the CEO and Co-founder of Astranis Space Technologies, a San Francisco-based aerospace company building next-generation geostationary satellites. He previously helped shape the commercial space industry as co-founder and executive director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, where he influenced President Obama's 2010 decision to use commercial space transportation for NASA missions - a shift worth over $10 billion to the industry. At Astranis, he has led the company from a Y Combinator startup to a $2.8 billion valuation with a $1+ billion backlog, operating a fleet of MicroGEO satellites that bring dedicated broadband to underserved regions across Alaska, the Philippines, Mexico, and beyond.
Sanjai Kohli
Sanjai Kohli is the CEO of CSpeed Inc., a Palo Alto silicon photonics company building the future of datacenter connectivity. Best known as the architect of mass-market GPS, he co-founded SiRF Technology in 1995, whose chips eventually powered more than 70% of the world's consumer GPS devices. An IEEE Fellow and European Inventor Award winner, he holds dozens of US patents and has spent three decades founding and running companies in wireless, GPS, robotics and now AI networking.
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner is a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who sold GPS-in-cell-phones pioneer SnapTrack to Qualcomm for $1 billion, served as California Insurance Commissioner, ran for governor, taught high school for a year, wrote a New York Times bestseller, and is now back in the lab as Co-Founder and CEO of oneNav - building the world's first L5-direct GNSS receiver ASIC to make GPS jamming-proof for drones, autonomous vehicles, and defense applications.
Aaron Nathan
Aaron Nathan is the CEO and co-founder of Point One Navigation, a San Francisco-based precision location company building the infrastructure layer for Physical AI. A Cornell-trained engineer who helped lead the university's DARPA Urban Challenge team, he went on to serve as Chief Architect at Coherent Navigation (acquired by Apple) before co-founding adeptCloud (acquired by Hightail). At Point One, he is turning centimeter-level GPS accuracy from a specialist tool into a universal platform — raising a $35M oversubscribed Series C from Khosla Ventures in 2025 to accelerate a mission: making precise location as ubiquitous as GPS itself.
O-Boy Satellite Smartwatch
O-Boy is the world's first satellite-connected emergency rescue smartwatch, built for adventurers and professionals who operate beyond cellular coverage. Designed by Belgian studio Futurewave for startup LifeLineSat, it lets you send GPS-pinpointed rescue signals, custom messages, or live location tracking directly via satellite - no phone required. Think of it as the emergency button the wilderness has always needed, worn on your wrist.
Yarbo M Series Robot
Yarbo M Series is a modular, autonomous yard robot that replaces four seasonal machines - lawn mower, snow blower, leaf collector, and edge trimmer - with one tracked, wire-free platform. Unveiled at CES 2026 and raising $2.6M on Kickstarter (26x its goal), the M Series uses nRTK GPS, LiDAR, and onboard AI to navigate without buried boundary wires, handles slopes up to 35 degrees, and operates year-round from -13F to 113F.