The round was led by Airtree Ventures, with strategic participation from Quadrant Private Equity and the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC).
These investors join a cohort of existing backers including Main Sequence, KKR, In-Q-Tel, Alpha Intelligence Capital, The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull AC and OIF Ventures.
“As autonomous vehicles scale into contested and high-stakes frontiers, the world’s reliance on any single navigation technology has evolved from a technical limitation into a systemic vulnerability,” says CEO Chris Shaw, “to power the next generation of autonomous systems, Advanced Navigation is combining deep learning software with high-precision hardware to help systems conquer the extremes across sea, land, air and space.”
GPS is no longer a reliable single source of truth says the company. Challenges once considered “edge cases” – electronic warfare threats, GPS spoofing, and infrastructure-denied regions – are now a daily reality.
“The future belongs to intelligent systems that can sense, adapt, and navigate independently,” adds Shaw, “at Advanced Navigation, we are building the resilient foundation by fusing high-precision inertial hardware with onboard intelligence, ensuring autonomous systems behave predictably in unpredictable
Leveraging robotics, AI, and high-precision sensing, Advanced Navigation is deploying a layered, multi-sensor architecture designed to operate with total autonomy, even when GPS signals are degraded or lost.
At the core of this architecture is AdNav Intelligence (AI), the company’s software fusion engine. It continuously combines and cross checks data from multiple sensors in real time, while adapting to each mission’s requirements. This ensures autonomous vehicles, aircraft, ships and robots understand exactly where they are and keep moving with confidence, no matter
With more than 100,000 systems deployed across global nations, Advanced Navigation’s market presence has reached critical mass, with over 80% of revenue generated in Europe and the U.S..
This investment will accelerate the establishment of PNT Centres of Excellence across these priority markets, anchoring the company’s next phase of global growth. The centres will embed highly specialised engineering teams directly within key regions, building trusted, on-the-ground capability that strengthens national resilience, secures supply chains, and reinforces long-term technical leadership.
In parallel, the centres will enable targeted technology acquisitions, expanding Advanced Navigation’s sensor stack across robotics, photonics, vision, artificial intelligence and quantum sensing.
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