# Wherobots

> Wherobots provides managed spatial computing and geospatial AI infrastructure for data teams. Founded by Apache Sedona creators Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu, it combines a distributed spatial engine, imagery processing and SQL/Python development tools with existing cloud storage and lakehouse catalogs.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Mo Sarwat (Co-founder and CEO), Jia Yu (Co-founder and Chief Architect)
- **Products:** Wherobots Cloud, WherobotsDB, SedonaDB, RasterFlow, Havasu
- **Notable:** GeoPostcodes reports population-data processing reduced from 39 days to under one day., Overture reports building-pipeline acceleration of up to 20x; November 2024 documentation describes 2.3 billion building geometries., Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu received the ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-Year Impact Award in November 2025 for co-authored research underpinning Apache Sedona.

## Products & services

- **Wherobots Cloud** — Managed environment for spatial analytics, notebooks, SQL sessions and production job runs.
- **WherobotsDB** — Distributed spatial compute engine compatible with Apache Sedona and Spark; the 2026 engine uses Rust-native Arrow-columnar execution.
- **SedonaDB** — Open-source single-node spatial analytical engine in the Apache Sedona ecosystem; distinct from the earlier commercial use of the SedonaDB name.
- **RasterFlow** — Serverless imagery preparation, computer vision inference and vectorization; private preview announced December 2025 and public preview September 2026.
- **Havasu** — Spatial table format built on Apache Iceberg, supporting geometry and raster data; the name also identifies the company’s geospatial catalog.
- **Spatial AI coding tools and MCP server** — Connect AI coding environments to catalogs, spatial queries and Wherobots workflows.

## Achievements

- GeoPostcodes reports population-data processing reduced from 39 days to under one day.
- Overture reports building-pipeline acceleration of up to 20x; November 2024 documentation describes 2.3 billion building geometries.
- Mo Sarwat and Jia Yu received the ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-Year Impact Award in November 2025 for co-authored research underpinning Apache Sedona.
- Raised the publicly announced $21.5 million Series A in November 2024.
- Company reported SOC 2 Type 2 compliance in December 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — RasterFlow public preview opened to Professional Edition customers; the live article is dated September 15.
- **2026-09** — September 30 technical article described NVIDIA GPU acceleration for RasterFlow and a class of SedonaDB spatial joins.
- **2026-03** — Updated WherobotsDB announced with Rust-native execution and company-reported performance improvements.
- **2026-02** — Strategic partnership with Felt announced.

## Links

- Website: https://wherobots.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wherobots/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/wherobots
- GitHub: https://github.com/wherobots
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFC5QjLyQ3wanshI5xUH0aw

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Last updated: 2026-10-02