# 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.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Vlad Baskakov (CEO, Co-founder - former Product Strategy & GTM lead for Google Maps APIs; ex-McKinsey; Harvard MBA), Yarik Markov (CTO, Co-founder - 20 years in tech, 10+ years leading Infrastructure/ML/Search teams at Google, Meta and Apple), Ilya Bukeev (Product Manager & AI Developer)
- **Team size:** ~5
- **Products:** Place Validation & Operating Status, Place Data Enrichment
- **Notable:** Selected for Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, Featured in Forbes' roundup of the most promising startups from YC's latest batch (March 2026), Member of the Overture Maps Foundation

## Products & services

- **Place Validation & Operating Status** — Confirms whether a place actually exists and is operating, and flags discrepancies by cross-referencing the open web, news and articles (explicitly not Google Maps data). Returns categories such as Operating, Closed, Relocated, Rebranded and Insufficient Data, with a claimed 99.62% precision across daily validations.
- **Place Data Enrichment** — Populates and continuously updates place records with foundational data (address, category, contacts), operating data (hours, amenities, menus, prices) and contextual data (reviews, news, events), turning a fixed 10-15 attribute record into a queryable place profile.

## Achievements

- Selected for Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch
- Featured in Forbes' roundup of the most promising startups from YC's latest batch (March 2026)
- Member of the Overture Maps Foundation
- Claims 99.62% precision across daily place validations
- Founding team drawn from Google Maps, Apple, Meta, Lyft and McKinsey

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Featured in Forbes' list of the most promising startups from Y Combinator's latest batch.
- **2026-01** — Launched publicly through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) as an API to validate and enrich place data at scale.

## Links

- Website: https://voygr.tech
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/voygr-tech/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/VoygrTech

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Last updated: 2026-07-30