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CB Insights recently named blackshark.ai as one of the world's 100 most promising private companies.

For their annual "AI 100" list, CB Insights reviewed thousands and selected the most promising startups that expand our reality of AI-based solutions.

From textile recycling to synthetics datasets, emotion analytics to general-purpose humanoids, CB Insights picked the best startups of the year based on R&D activity, proprietary Mosaic scores, business relationships, Yardstiq transcripts, investor profiles, tech novelty, market potential, and other criteria. Following these benchmarks, blackshark.ai is the most promising Digital Twin startup with potential cross-industry applications.

Access the entire AI 100 list and interactive Expert Collection here: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/artificial-intelligence-top-startups-2023/

The top AI companies in 2023 | CB Insights The AI 100 is CB Insights' annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies in the world. This year’s winners are working on generative AI infrastructure, emotion analytics, general-purpose humanoids, and more.

Becoming "one of the hottest startups in Europe in the past two years," as named by Forbes DA, was not a small feat — but equally, not less thrilling!

In an interview with our CEO, Michael Putz, Forbes traced our journey from the idea to the current technology and discussed our vision and potential applications of our 3D Digital Twin, such as energy planning & permitting or disaster relief.

Access the exclusive insights into blackshark.ai in this article [originally in German]: https://www.forbes.at/artikel/die-architekten-der-virtuellen-erde.html

🌏 is now ready for the Omniverse in OpenUSD.

NVIDIA has announced a release of their Omniverse platform containing major Generative AI and OpenUSD updates, offering new foundation applications and services for developers and industrial enterprises to optimize and enhance their 3D pipelines.

We are thrilled to be part of the ever-growing NVIDIA Omniverse ecosystem. The new release with the OpenUSD initiative is a massive leap towards efficient content handover and production process for the Open Metaverse and opens more opportunities for industrial enterprises.

If you are interested in a georeferenced, synthetic, yet realistic 3D representation of the Earth for your training, simulation, and visualization work, you can request free USD data samples here: https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-synth3d-for-nvidia-omniverse/

🔝 : Keeping pace with the times with Generative AI

Austrian Research Promotion Agency, who supported us in our journey of becoming one of the leading startups, has recently posted an insightful success story about blackshark.ai. met our team in our headquarters and talked with our Research Manager, Thomas Menzel-Berger, about our developments, current and future plans for our -based geospatial technology, and industry trends.

You can access the article — originally written in German — here: https://www.ffg.at/news/successstory-mit-generative-ai-am-puls-der-zeit

#SuccessStory: Mit Generative AI am Puls der Zeit | FFG Die Grazer Blackshark.ai erstellt digitale Zwillinge der Erde so schnell und so detailliert wie kein anderer Anbieter: Ihre Anwendung SYNTH3D rendert aus aktuellen Satellitendaten das virtuelle 3D-Modell jedes beliebigen Gebiets auf der Erde. Eine FFG-Förderung erleichterte es dem erfolgreichen Sta...

We proudly announce that blackshark.ai was selected to participate in the first AWS European Defence Accelerator.

AWS European Defence Accelerator is designated to enhance the European Defence industry. The top startups, interested in doing business with defence and national security organizations across Europe, will receive technical, business, and mentorship support to extend their operational knowledge. The program is delivered in collaboration with Plexal and consists of mentorship, networking opportunities, access to AWS computing credits and special training.

The program will elevate energy resilience, secure information sharing, sensing and decision making, and quantum and cyber resilience for mission-critical needs in Europe.

“We are very excited to provide blackshark.ai’s High-Frequency Mapping and Change Detection capabilities as a fully integrated service through the AWS European Defense Accelerator very soon,” said Michael Putz, CEO of blackshark.ai

Read more about our participation in the AWS European Defence Accelerator in our most recent blog post: https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-selected-to-participate-in-the-first-aws-european-defence-accelerator/

🔥 We had a Great Fireside Chat with Qasar Younis at blackshark.ai! 🔥

We were happy and honored to welcome Qasar Younis, founder of Applied Intuition, to our Headquarters in Graz. Qasar gave us a glimpse into the rollercoaster ride of building a business in Silicon Valley and discussed the challenges he faced and the strategies he used to overcome them during his own startup journey. Talk about real-life inspiration! It was a stimulating session packed with practical tips and lively discussions.

Thanks, Qasar, for answering all our questions with radical candor. Your passion for startups and willingness to help aspiring entrepreneurs always shines through!

blackshark.ai was highlighted as one of the few in the "Top Geographic Information Systems Startups" report by Tracxn

Minicorns are startups with a high potential to scale, which have already launched their business into an accelerated growth mode. Tracxn has collected a list of the most promising startups leading the Geographic Information Systems industry from across the globe, including the Soonicorns and Minicorns — the top startups to watch in the upcoming months.

Check the overview and the full report on the companies providing tools and services to capture, integrate, store, analyze, and visualize data here: https://tracxn.com/d/emerging-startups/top-geographic-information-systems-startups-2023

Emerging Startups 2023: Top Geographic Information Systems Startups A curated list of top Geographic Information Systems startups to watch out for. In this 2023 edition, we bring you an exciting list of 50+ most promising Geographic Information Systems startups from across the world.

Tune into the recent Microsoft HoloLens video series "Design Build Operate" episode to learn more about the Industrial Metaverse & HoloLens. Get insights into industry challenges and opportunities, as well as blackshark.ai, one of Microsoft's partners in the field.

Exploring , Alex Karim (Industrial Metaverse GTM manager at Microsoft UK) invited Gastão De Figueiredo, Our SVP Strategic Partnerships, to talk about blackshark.ai, , applications and customers, and everything in-between.

Watch the video below to catch up with recent developments in the industry, from Quam Temidayo Adewale from Microsoft, Gastao D. from blackshark.ai, Greg Demchak from Bentley Systems, Jordan Lawver from Trimble Inc.., and Mark Knowles - Lee from Fracture Reality.

Design Build Operate | Ep2 Built Environment Design Build Operate is a short video series exploring how the Industrial Metaverse & HoloLens 2 is transforming industry today. Featuring customer and partn...

🔝 blackshark.ai was ranked as one of the top 50 startups to watch in Switzerland and Austria by Sifted.

"Sifted has put together a ranking of the 50 hottest startups to watch — from seed right up to growth stage — based on funding momentum (how quickly a company has raised at each stage), market opportunity, competitive advantage, and investor strength"

🔍 Check the report on the status quo and investment climate here: https://sifted.eu/articles/ranking-swiss-austrian-startups-to-watch-2023

📑 The full list is available here:
https://sifted.eu/rankings/austria-switzerland-startups-to-watch-2023

The Austrian & Swiss startups to watch in 2023 Sifted has put together a ranking of the 50 hottest startups to watch — from seed right up to growth stage — based on funding momentum, market opportunity, competitive advantage and investor strength.

We are excited to announce the beginning of a partnership with Bohemia Interactive Simulations, a leading global developer of military simulation and training software.

Customers will be able to acquire highly accurate recreations of real-world locations for mission planning, rehearsal, or training based on high-resolution satellite data and more.

"With this partnership, any real-world location becomes available as a current and photorealistic 3D training environment. blackshark.ai and BISim are the perfect combinations for everyone looking for country-scale real-world mission planning and mission rehearsal environments," says Michael Putz, CEO of blackshark.ai.

Read more on the partnership plans below.

https://blackshark.ai/bisim-and-blackshark-ai-join-forces/

📧 If you are not yet a subscriber to our newsletter, you can still catch up on our latest edition, "blackshark.ai is making its SYNTH3D available in NVIDIA Omniverse".

The newsletter includes a deep-dive into:
🏘️ Availability of samples of areas in NVIDIA Omniverse in USD format
🛰️ The details about the launch of the Digital Twin by Maxar and blackshark.ai
⚜ Insights into the Demo Package of New Orleans
🛫 Access information for the Private Beta Globe SDK 1.9 for Flight Simulation
🌎 Recap from the past events, including MWC Barcelona
📰 Recent coverage and other news from The Halldale Group, Andreessen Horowitz, and other media.

https://blackshark.ai/april/

blackshark.ai's overview in April | Blackshark.ai Blackshark.ai is making its SYNTH3D available in NVIDIA Omniverse Several SYNTH3D samples of areas will be available on NVIDIA Omniverse in USD format. Currently available as a static USD export, in the future, the samples will be streamed into the Omniverse with the help of the Omniverse Connector,...

We are making free samples of areas of the globe available on NVIDIA Omniverse. This allows developers to experiment and prototype simulations, leveraging digital terrain from blackshark.ai into the computing platform NVIDIA Omniverse.

Developed jointly by Maxar and blackshark.ai, SYNTH3D allows developers and creators to simulate and visualize 3D environments representative of real-world locations where aesthetics and performance are crucial for commercial and government applications. Users will have access to the SYNTH3D samples of various regions in different sizes with the underlying semantic information about object properties like dimensions, geolocation, and materials to leverage in more precise simulation scenarios.

The samples are provided in Universal Scene Description (USD) format, natively supported by Omniverse, and can be visualized and used in the Omniverse environment. The next step after the static USD exports will be to develop an Omniverse Connector, allowing the streaming of the entire globe into Omniverse, as announced today by NVIDIA at the NVIDIA GTC Keynote.

“We are excited about this next step in our collaboration with NVIDIA, and we believe our capabilities, coupled with the Omniverse platform, will empower developers to build real-world simulations with greater accuracy and ease,” blackshark.ai 's CEO, Michael Putz, said.

Read more in our most recent blog post:
https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-is-making-its-synth3d-available-in-nvidia-omniverse/

Read and watch an interview with our Senior Vice President for Strategic Partnerships, Gastão de Figueiredo, with the Group Editor Marty Kauchak from The Halldale Group about the present and future of blackshark.ai.

In this first episode of The Disrupter Series, Gastão shares insights on what makes us one of the simulation and training industry innovators, disrupting the market. From to commercial , to , blackshark.ai's geospatial technology and Digital Twin of Earth found success through various applications.

What does make blackshark.ai unique, what are the capabilities of our technology, and where does the simulation and training industry head on to? The answers to that can be found in the article and video:
https://www.halldale.com/articles/20917-blacksharkai-is-all-in-for-expanding-beyond-defense-s-and-t

blackshark.ai is All In for Expanding Beyond Defense S&T In the first in a series of simulation and training industry innovators disrupting the market space, Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak gained insights from Gastão de Figueiredo, Senior Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at blackshark.ai.

Great overview of the Space Market by Andreessen Horowitz, listing some of the most exciting innovations from Launch to Space Habitation and in between.

"Data Services represent a significant chunk of satellite usage. […] Data has both military and commercial value — and opportunities exist as an analytics layer helping translate raw information into actionable insights."

We are excited to be one of the players heavily innovating in space. The sky is not the limit!

Check out the whole map of satellite companies assembled by Ryan McEntush and delve deeper into the topic here:
https://a16z.com/2023/03/17/space-market-map/

Space: A Market Map | Andreessen Horowitz There are more companies than you might think attempting to commercialize space, from launching satellites to mining resources.

We are happy to share the news that Maxar today announces the availability of , a high-performance, geotypical 3D representation of the entire planet for gaming, simulation, entertainment, virtual reality (VR), smart city and metaverse.

Developed through a partnership between Maxar and Algaba , SYNTH3D allows developers and creators to simulate and visualize 3D environments representative of real-world locations where aesthetics and performance are key to commercial and government applications.

SYNTH3D was created by blackshark.ai by applying its patented generative artificial intelligence (AI) to Maxar’s Vivid imagery basemap, a global, cloud-free, virtually seamless view of Earth, with rich natural color and precise visual clarity. The AI extracts more than 1.4 billion buildings and procedurally generates them as 3D buildings. The buildings then have geotypical textures applied, meaning specific buildings may look different in the real world, but the overall appearance of the building height and façade reflect regional archetypes, creating a lifelike model.

Maxar will demonstrate SYNTH3D at MWC Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, from February 27-March 3. If you are coming to the congress, our VP of Product Marketing Hannes Walter would be glad to introduce you to the product at the Maxar Booth: Hall 4, Stand 4B16

Blackshark.ai and Maxar launch SYNTH3D Digital Twin for Metaverse, Simulation and Virtual Reality Applications | Blackshark.ai Blackshark.ai and Maxar launch SYNTH3D Digital Twin for Metaverse, Simulation and Virtual Reality Applications

💡Join us this Thursday for Eagle 3D Streaming's "Opportunities With Pixel Streaming" Live Panel to learn about pixel streaming applications from blackshark.ai and other best-in-class Enterprise Companies.

Quintin Anderson (Eagle 3D Streaming ), Mark Hamilton, LEED AP (JLL Technologies ), Stephanie Muhlenfeld (The Squad Nation ), Hannes Walter (blackshark.ai), and Matthew Shouse (Theia Interactive ) will discuss the evolution of pixel streaming applications, lessons from projects, the key metrics from development to Go-Live, , and recommendations for successful use of advanced streaming features and benchmarking, and many other things.

📅 Date and Time: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 at 11 AM EST | 5 PM CET
✍️ Registration: https://www.eagle3dstreaming.com/opportunities-with-pixel-streaming-part-ii/

We at blackshark.ai, would like to extend our deepest condolences to those affected by the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria. In light of this tragedy, we would like to offer our services to help assess the damage to buildings in the affected areas.

Please find a free download of an assessment of damaged buildings in the affected area based on recently released open public imagery. -> Thank you Maxar

Note: The results are the output of blackshark.ai's ORCA(tm) geoInt platform looking for changes in buildings.

https://github.com/blackshark-ai/Turkey-Earthquake-2023-Building-Change-Detection
Please note that only a small portion of the affected area is available.

For whom wants to donate, you can check the links below:
https://ahbap.org/disasters-turkey
https://www.akut.org.tr/en/donation
https://en.afad.gov.tr/earthquake-donation-accounts

Thank you for your support!

Thanks, Omdena, for featuring blackshark.ai as one of the 34 Rising Geospatial Data Science Companies to Watch in 2023!

Our data is perfectly suited for geospatial training, simulation, visualization applications, and the industrial metaverse. On top, our engine for fast detection model training provides you with all the insights you need.

https://omdena.com/blog/geospatial-data-companies-part-2/

34 Rising Geospatial Data Science Companies to Watch in 2023 - Omdena 2023 has just started, and here is a list of 34 rising geospatial data companies that are making a positive impact you should know.

💡 From a more robust endorsement of Universal Scene Description ( ) and formats to in-silico methods for drug development, a new year brings even newer advancements for . George Lawton from VentureBeat compiled a neat list of 10 Digital Twin trends to look forward to.

Which one is your favorite?

Ours is, of course, a fuse of entertainment and industrial solutions that we are proudly a part of together with our partners.

10 digital twin trends for 2023 Digital twins will help fuel advances in data exchange, generative AI, medical testing, communication and more in 2023.

🌏 🎉 Another year on Earth is coming to an end, and the festive season is already in full swing, which means it is a great time to take a moment to reflect on what the blackshark.aii team has achieved this year.

We teamed up with Maxar, leveraging Maxar’s global cloudless satellite imagery basemap, Vivid, to create a highly performant and photo-realistic 3D map for many applications of enterprise and government customers. Together with Microsoft, we launched a joint product, , that allows users to detect and analyze various objects from large-scale aerial and satellite images. We presented our replica of Earth and launched a for Unreal Engine from Epic Games (currently in Private Beta mode), making the of Earth accessible to all people interested in doing any projects based on our technology. We attended myriads of conferences, showcased our technology in various settings, presented our research papers, and met many exciting professionals and new friends. We grew our team count, moved to a new bigger office to gather all the team members under one roof, and won many competitions and awards like never before.

We want to say an enormous thank you to our whole team that has made everything possible and to everyone that supported us along the journey. And, of course, to everyone who uses our products and believes in us.

With this, we wish you a great holiday season and a great start to the new year! Cheers! 🎆 🖤

blackshark.ai is very excited to be a part of AWS SimSpace Weaver!

AWS Announces AWS SimSpace Weaver Fully managed compute service enables complex, dynamic 3D simulations that model systems with more than a million objects, quickly predict real-world outcomes, and create immersive training spaces for customers

blackshark.ai Globe Plugin for Unreal Engine — what you were all waiting for all along is officially getting launched via the Unreal Engine Marketplace during !

The free Globe Plugin gives access to our data. This means that everyone interested in streaming blackshark.ai's synthetically reconstructed 3D terrain can do so now with ease. Everyone can now include ground textures, buildings, infrastructure, and vegetation of the entire globe based on satellite data into their Epic Gamess UE5-based projects.

With 1.5 billion buildings and over 30 million square kilometers of vegetation coverage, derived from Vivid global satellite imagery basemap and carrying semantic metadata, the use cases for this plugin are infinite: gaming, simulation, training, visualization of any kind, including real-life metaverse applications.

To give users a jump start, the contains a 1.5x1.5 miles sized sample set of New Orleans for free and can be used with own georeferenced data.

As our CEO Michael Putz says, "This is the beginning of a new era for the training & simulation industry. We can not wait to see what our integration partners will build in Unreal Engine on top of our real-world referenced synthetic environments.

Thanks to the amazing blackshark.ai team for making this possible!
Kudos to Sébastien Lozé and Alban Bergeret for your great support!

UPDATE: We are very sorry, but some problems on our side prevent you from accessing the marketplace version of Globe Plugin currently. They should be fixed soon. You can still request Private Beta access to the plugin and your area of interest on our product page. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Read more about the blackshark.ai Globe Plugin for Unreal Engine

https://blackshark.ai/blackshark-ai-launches-globe-plugin-for-unreal-engine-making-the-whole-world-available-in-3d-to-anyone/

https://youtu.be/czjczrxElkU

Blackshark.ai SYNTH3D - photo-realistic 3D replica of Earth's surface Blackshark.ai presents SYNTH3D - the first photo-realistic 3D replica of the surface and infrastructure of the entire globe. It contains all the terrain, veg...

📧 in Orlando is finally here, and we cannot wait to meet many of you over the next few days. To make it easier for you to find us on-site, we put together the details of our presence and activities at the conference, along with some useful information:

🌎 Full list of the booths where you can see blackshark.ai in action
✈️ List of the talks we participate in at I/ITSEC 2022
🛰️ Details of our recent geospatial panel with Maxar, Esri, and Cesium at the Unreal Fest

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Meet with blackshark.ai at I/ITSEC 2022 blackshark.ai SYNTH3D globe...

Make sure our paper presentation at is on your calendar!

📄 Title: "Automated Building Generation at Global Scale Based on Satellite Imagery."
🕑 THU, Dec 1, 12:30 PM, Room W307b.

Abstract:
In the past the production of a photorealistic, geo-typical, 3D digital surface model of the entire globe has been a near impossibility. Ensuring that the model is geo-referenced, high-performance, and up to date have further complicated the task. Any manual approach is much too slow and automated methods have lacked region-specific aspects.

The novel approach for a 3D reconstruction solution was developed by the blackshark.ai team to overcome said limitations. It consisted of an end-to-end, cloud-computing-based geospatial platform that extracts terrain and infrastructure attributes from a global satellite imagery data set. This data was then transformed into a WGS84 georeferenced, geo-typical, photo-realistic, and semantically defined 3D digital twin of worldwide human-created infrastructure, which was capable of being streamed or stored entirely offline. A highly parallelized and resilient cloud architecture was used to deliver an accurate reconstruction of approximately 1.4 billion buildings and structures.

At the core of the 3D reconstruction lies the Procedural Geometry Generator (PGG). It uses a custom grammar that allows for a diversity of features previous solutions were unable to provide. The solution ensures that an unending proliferation of labyrinthine rules can be avoided. Diversity is realized using regional characteristics, biome definition, unique building constraints and pseudo-randomization. The result is that the procedural definition of buildings defines every single building in a unique, geo-typical- way with high performance. By performing reconstruction on the client side, PGG allows for reconstructions that would otherwise be untenable due to the required amount of streamed data. This method not only increases asset diversity, but also massively decreases required resources.

The resulting platform is a solid foundation for professional image generators, flight simulators and special use cases such as pilot training and sensor simulation. Additional challenges include persistent, synchronized, multi-view, multi-client states or material attributes at global scale.

is taking off next week, and we are already looking forward to the largest and conference of the year.

This time you can meet us all around the venue: test our globe in the blackshark.ai Globe Plugin for Unreal Engine 5, explore what our partners have built on top of it, check out our No-Code Labelling and AI training tool, and discuss the requirements for your use cases and how blackshark.ai SYNTH3D can support them.

Here are some of the booths where you can delve into the workings of blackshark.ai by yourself:

🌎 blackshark.ai main booth #3127: contact us to schedule a meeting at [email protected]
🛫 federal booth #1969: blackshark.ai kiosk, IPerformX kiosk and Microsoft AirSim kiosks
✈️ demo #3127: everyday 2:00 pm BattleRd will present their Global Command Decision & Control system
🛰️ booth #487: SYNTH3D is derived from Maxar Technologies Vivid base map. Discuss options for space-born data aggregation.
🖥️ booth #1815: the best way to integrate blackshark.ai SYNTH3D is from Epic Games. See what’s possible.
🎮 booth #506: high-performant training & simulation need powerful hardware. Talk to MSI team about your specific requirements.

You are also welcome to attend the talks during I/ITSEC featuring blackshark.ai:

⭐ WED, Nov 30, 8:30-10:00am, room W311ABCD: The Consumer Meets Defense
⭐ WED, Nov 30, 4:00-5:30am, room W311ABCD: Vision of and The Metaverse
⭐ THU, Dec 1, 10:50am, booth #2588: Innovation showcase booth: Microsoft AirSim presentation "Accelerating aerial autonomy with Project AirSim"
⭐ THU, Dec 1, 12:30am, room W307B: Paper presentation: "Automated 3D Terrain Generation at Global Scale Based on Satellite Imagery and Cloud Computing"

See you there!
https://www.iitsec.org/

"Based on commercial customer feedback, we understand that there is a market need for a more light-weight, large-scale and machine-readable synthetic environment for applications where speed to load, visual quality, and user experience take precedence over pixel-level accuracy. Maxar and blackshark.ai are working to deliver that solution."

Read Daniel Nord's (SVP & GM Enterprise at Maxar) take on our partnership with Maxar and our joint presentation last week at the from Epic Games in the blog post below.

The Real-World Metaverse Needs Satellite Imagery When Epic Games hosted Unreal Fest (a conference for creators using Unreal Engine, the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D tool) earlier this month, Maxar and blackshark.ai spoke to the attendees about my two passions: video games and space. Maxar and blackshark.ai are converging two forme...

Our CTO Arno Hollosi has just presented a paper, co-written with our Research Manager Thomas Menzel-Berger, named "Close to Real-Time Object Detection to Provide Synthetic Environments with Georeferenced Objects for Time-Critical Mission Planning" at the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) Annual Symposium.

In this paper, our team proposes an end-to-end geospatial pipeline that feeds current geo-data into a 3D digital twin environment for mission training and rehearsals in volatile, multi-domain scenarios. Here is a small excerpt from it:

"A fully automated solution based on a holistic global aerial data set (RGB, NIR, SAR) employs pre-trained ML-models to extract relevant geolocated 3D infrastructure and terrain data for a given mission area. A core feature of this technology is an integrated no-code, visual data labelling tool that enables non-AI/ML-trained personnel to apply ML analytics on current imagery to identify mission-critical objects over large-scale areas. These detected special interest objects are then automatically fed into the pipeline, georeferenced and visually represented in the synthetic rehearsal environment.

With this geospatial metaverse approach, synthetic training environments containing mission-critical details can be created practically in real-time. Future mission planning staffs will therefore have the ability to customize rehearsal simulations in an agile manner."

This paper proposes a solution for rapid simulation-based mission planning and rehearsal creation – reach out to us to learn how our platform can help to deliver it 😉