NavVis

NavVis

Produces 3D scans and digital twins

Overview

NavVis creates reality capture systems that turn real buildings and sites into photorealistic digital twins. It designs and sells hardware, including the NavVis VLX and MLX wearable and mobile laser scanners that use proprietary SLAM to quickly capture precise 3D point clouds and panorama images. It also provides NavVis IVION, a web-based platform that processes the captured data into interactive 3D models, enabling viewing, analysis, asset tagging, site assessment, and scan-to-BIM workflows from a browser. The company combines hardware sales with subscription access to IVION and optional cloud processing services for enterprises. Its customers span manufacturing, automotive, construction, surveying, and plant management, with names like Daimler, BMW, Lenovo, and Deutsche Telekom. NavVis’s goal is to help enterprises capture, visualize, and manage built environments digitally to improve planning, operations, and collaboration across sites.

About NavVis

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Why NavVis is rated
C-
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated C on Growth Potential
Rated D+ on Differentiation

Industries

Hardware

VR & AR

Enterprise Software

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$94.9M

Headquarters

Munich, Germany

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • Samp partnership accelerates asset inventory creation by 3x and cuts P&ID validation costs by 70% via AI-driven classification on NavVis scans.
  • New Americas and APAC cloud regions ensure faster, compliant reality capture viewing for enterprise clients across 10+ countries.
  • UK Managing Director Harrington drives growth serving 100+ British customers in construction, manufacturing, and surveying since 2022.

What critics are saying

  • Leica Astra series targets NavVis VLX/MLX market with 20% lower cost and native Revit integration, risking 45–60% market share loss in 12–18 months.
  • Autodesk may force IVION data pipeline sharing with 'Scan-to-BIM Pro', enabling direct Revit extraction without NavVis subscription, risking 35–50% workflow advantage loss in 9–15 months.
  • Daimler mandates Leica mobile scanner adoption for factory verification, cutting NavVis from 30% of 2026 scanning budget and triggering 15% automotive revenue drop in 6–12 months.

What makes NavVis unique

  • NavVis combines survey-grade mobile scanners VLX/MLX with cloud-based IVION platform for end-to-end digital twins, unlike competitors offering only hardware or software.
  • Spring '26 IVION update enables in-browser model validation against IFC point clouds, eliminating tool-switching and reducing rework by up to 15%.
  • Gold-tier Autodesk AECO partnership validates seamless Revit/Forma integration, delivering measurable reality data across teams within 24 hours.

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Funding

Total Funding

$94.9M

Meets

Industry Average

Funded Over

5 Rounds

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Benefits

Paid Vacation

Flexible Work Hours

Hybrid Work Options

Relocation Assistance

Employee Referral Bonus

Wellness Program

Commuter Benefits

Training Programs

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-1%
NavVis
May 27th, 2026
NavVis Achieves Gold Tier Status as Autodesk AECO Technology Partner

NavVis Achieves Gold Tier Status as Autodesk AECO Technology Partner Munich, May 27, 2026 - NavVis, a global leader in reality capture and digital factory solutions, is proud to announce its Gold Partner status in the Autodesk(R) AECO Technology Partner Program. This recognition underscores NavVis' commitment to delivering world-class integrations that enhance design, construction, and operations workflows across the built environment. NavVis and Autodesk have collaborated since 2018, enabling project teams to seamlessly integrate NavVis reality capture and spatial data solutions with Autodesk(R) Revit(R) and Autodesk Forma(R). With Gold Tier status, NavVis joins an exclusive group of technology providers whose solutions have been validated for quality, reliability, and customer impact. "Achieving Gold Partner status with Autodesk is a significant milestone for NavVis and a testament to the value we bring to our customers," said Lisa Patterson, Director Product Management Reality Access at NavVis. "Together with Autodesk, we're enabling AEC professionals to make smarter decisions, reduce risk, and deliver projects more efficiently through the power of reality capture and digital twins." Contractors like JTM are seeing this in practice. With NavVis IVION and Autodesk Forma, their teams can scan a jobsite one day and have shareable, measurable reality data available across estimators, field crews, and project managers the next morning. This has helped JTM eliminate "app fatigue," reduce reliance on BIM assumptions, and replace surprise change orders with early issue identification and transparent collaboration. The Gold Tier designation reflects Autodesk's recognition of NavVis' proven success in supporting AECO professionals worldwide. Through integrations such as the NavVis IVION add-in for Revit and the NavVis IVION Connector for Autodesk Forma Data Management(TM), critical project insights are delivered directly into the tools favored by leading architecture, engineering, and construction firms. With this milestone, NavVis remains committed to strengthening its collaboration with Autodesk to advance next-generation workflows that bring together cutting-edge scanning technology, digital twin technology, and cloud-based collaboration to optimize the entire building lifecycle. Autodesk, Autodesk Forma, Forma Data Management, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. About NavVis A built world where physical reality is always known, trusted, and actionable. NavVis is the spatial twin platform for the built world. NavVis was founded on a single conviction: that the people who build and operate the physical world deserve to know exactly what that world looks like - accurately, instantly, and always. Today, NavVis combines 10x faster, survey-grade mobile reality capture (NavVis VLX and NavVis MLX) with an enterprise spatial twin platform (NavVis IVION) that turns captured data into shared, trusted, always-current digital reality. More than two billion square meters of the world's most complex industrial plants, construction sites, and buildings now live on the NavVis platform - reducing waste, rework, and downtime, and forming the foundation for automation, analytics, and AI-driven decision-making at scale.

NavVis
Apr 28th, 2026
When 3D models meet reality: A smarter way to validate, Document, and share findings.

When 3D models meet reality: A smarter way to validate, Document, and share findings. A 3D model is only valuable if teams can trust it. In construction, manufacturing, and facility operations, small mismatches between design and existing conditions can trigger late design changes, rework, delays, and avoidable site visits. This is especially challenging as projects grow more complex and teams more distributed. But verifying whether 2D and 3D as-is documentation actually matches real-world conditions is still too often treated as a specialist workflow. Data gets exported, views get rebuilt in separate tools, and findings get shared as screenshots without context. It's slow, costly, and difficult to scale, and it creates a trust gap: teams can see the model, but can't confidently validate it, or act on what they find. With its Spring '26 Product Update, NavVis IVION introduces a new model validation workflow that helps teams close the gap between model and reality, making verification, documentation, and collaboration part of one continuous workflow. The update will be rolled out in the coming weeks. The gap between alignment and action Spatial platforms have come a long way in visualizing and aligning models. Today, accurately placing a 3D model into real-world scan data is the baseline. What's still hard is what comes next: making verification repeatable, collaborative, and accessible beyond BIM specialists. Today's reality often looks like this: * Point clouds and models live in different tools, and forcing them into conventional software often overwhelms performance * Verification is locked to BIM specialists due to license and expertise barriers * Findings end up in screenshots, email threads, or spreadsheets, without clear next steps * Teams waste time recreating views, leading to miscommunication and rework Verification should work without tool switching, losing context, or relying on a single expert. Verify where reality lives NavVis IVION introduces a more intuitive, end-to-end model verification workflow that fits naturally into how teams already work. Instead of constantly exporting data and switching between tools, teams can validate models directly in NavVis IVION, where their reality data already lives: * Focus your review: Inspect aligned model and scan data side by side, narrow in on critical zones using the Crop tool, and spot deviations with visual clarity. * Document findings: Capture discrepancies as Point of Interests (POIs) anchored in 3D space, then stay organized by reviewing POIs by category or group (e.g., "Issues", "Resolved"), supporting a more structured, auditable workflow. * Share the context: Send a context-rich link so others can open the same scene, immediately understand what you saw, and act without ambiguity. Together, this supports high-impact workflows like Quality Assurance (QA) of delivered models before hand-off, remote Quality Assurance or Quality Control during construction, and validating facility models against the latest scans. One Platform, One Source of Truth As spatial platforms become central to how projects are delivered and operated, verification can't remain a one-time checkpoint. It needs to be a repeatable process, grounded in reality capture, supported by clear evidence, and easy to share across teams. NavVis IVION brings those pieces together in one environment. The result is less dependency on specialist tools and licenses, fewer site visits through remote review, faster alignment through context-rich sharing, and a stronger foundation of trust in your spatial data. This is what modern spatial intelligence enables: not just seeing reality, but validating it, and acting on it with confidence. To learn more or speak with its team, reach out to NavVis GmbH here.

Samp
Mar 11th, 2026
Samp and NavVis Partner to Accelerate the Future of Industrial Digital Twins

Samp and NavVis partner to accelerate the future of industrial digital twins. Samp, developer of the Shared Reality asset intelligence workspace, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with NavVis, a global leader in spatial intelligence and reality capture technology. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in providing industrial operators with an unparalleled solution for scaling and managing their digital twins. Partners With a Shared Vision Managing industrial assets requires precision, collaboration, and up-to-date information. By combining the strengths of both companies, this partnership addresses the core challenges of modern industrial environments. NavVis brings a market-leading reality capture portfolio to the partnership, including the NavVis VLX and NavVis MLX dynamic laser scanning systems and NavVis IVION, its platform for processing, access, and collaboration. In an industry where scale and trust matter, these solutions make it possible to capture complex physical environments quickly and accurately. They also help teams access and use reality capture data more effectively across project lifecycles. To maximize the value of this high-fidelity data, Samp's Shared Reality workspace was designed to support dynamic scans from day one. Shared Reality seamlessly ingests these 3D scans and uses embedded AI to identify and classify piping and process equipment, empowering teams to easily enrich 3D reality with existing technical information from existing systems of record. Immediate Adoption and Value for Users The true power of this partnership lies in the seamless combination of NavVis' reality capture fidelity and Shared Reality's asset-level interactivity. Beyond the use of monolithic point clouds, users can now securely collaborate across physical and digital environments at the asset level. Whether it is for engineering studies, hazard management, procurement, or daily maintenance, the joint use of both solutions ensures that staff and contractors are always on the same page. This intuitive integration guarantees immediate user adoption, resulting in faster execution, improved safety, and better financial predictability for plant operations. By implementing this joint solution, industrial operators can achieve significant, measurable gains across the entire asset lifecycle: * Asset Management & Investment: Building a technical inventory of all assets is dramatically accelerated, resulting in 3x faster creation. * Maintenance & Modifications: When preparing for site interventions, upgrades or changes, teams experience a 15% reduction in work costs. * Engineering: The process to revalidate outdated flowsheets & diagrams (P&ID) is vastly streamlined, leading to 70% lower validation costs. * Procurement: When issuing a call for tender, the accurate and granular digital context leads to a significant reduction in quotes. "By bridging NavVis' exceptional reality capture capabilities with Samp's Shared Reality workspace, we are delivering an interactive view of industrial sites that updates as fast as the sites change," says Laurent Bourgouin, CEO and co-founder of Samp. "NavVis and Samp share the same focus on making complex industrial environments easier to understand and manage," said Dr. Felix Reinshagen, CEO and co-founder of NavVis. "By combining our reality capture and spatial twin technology with Samp's asset intelligence workspace, we can deliver even faster access to trusted digital context for teams across the asset lifecycle." More to explore. March 2, 2026 Join Samp SAS for an exclusive webinar introducing GeoLayers, the powerful geospatial capability within Shared Reality. GeoLayers allows you to seamlessly visualize, organize, and interact with external GeoJSON data directly within your 3D viewer February 13, 2026 Key Takeaways Brownfield environments change faster than traditional CAD workflows can keep up. CAD is optimized for design, not for managing February 12, 2026 Key Takeaways Reconciliation failures create a hidden 30% gap between planned and real-world conditions. Asset reconciliation is an operational discipline, not

Broadcast
Jun 5th, 2024
Spiideo raises £15.7m funding

Cipio Partners has previously invested in encrypted messaging service Wire; a professional network for scientists and researchers, Research Gate; and reality capture and digital twins business NavVis.

Spatial Source
May 29th, 2024
NavVis announces leadership team expansion

NavVis has announced an expansion of its leadership team, with Matt Delano joining as Global Head of Sales - Laser Scanning and Nora Arendt joining as Global Head of Customer Experience.

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