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Vlad Baskakov
Vlad Baskakov is the co-founder and CEO of VOYGR (YC W26), a San Francisco startup building real-world place intelligence for AI apps and agents. He spent years on Google Maps leading product strategy and go-to-market for places and local advertising, and worked in ridesharing and travel at Gett and OYO before that. A McKinsey alum with a Harvard MBA, he is now betting that AI agents need a maps API that knows not just that a restaurant is 'open till 10,' but whether the chef left and the locals moved on.
Reprompt
Reprompt builds AI agents for location data. Mapping companies like Foursquare, TomTom, and Radar use its agents to keep points-of-interest and business records current - verifying hours, status, ownership, and dozens of other attributes by cross-referencing web, social, government, and news sources. Founded in 2024 by ex-Mapbox and ex-Robinhood operators, the company turns work that once took weeks of manual research into runs that finish in under an hour.
VOYGR
VOYGR is a place-intelligence API that validates whether real-world businesses are actually operating and enriches their records with fresh web context - news, articles, hours, prices and events. Built by ex-Google Maps, Apple and Meta engineers, it is designed to give AI apps and agents map data they can trust, going beyond the 10-15 static attributes offered by traditional mapping APIs.
Foursquare
Foursquare is a geospatial technology company that turns the physical world into structured, privacy-minded location data. Once known for the check-in app that helped popularize mobile location sharing, the company reinvented itself as an independent location-intelligence platform. Its products - Places, Movement SDK, Studio, and the Graph - supply a database of 120+ million points of interest and movement signals that power maps, marketing, analytics, and app features for companies including Apple, Uber, Snapchat, and Spotify.