142
full-time employees worldwide
- 38 hold PhDs (remote sensing, urban planning, applied ML)
- 61 hold master's degrees
- 9 languages spoken fluently across client teams
BAKRABATA / GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
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The team building the geospatial operating system for tomorrow's cities.
This page is a procurement-ready record of who we are, how we got here, and why 87 municipalities across 19 countries entrust their urban intelligence layer to our platform.
- Founded2017, Boston MA
- Team142 employees · 38 PhDs
- OfficesBoston · Lisbon · Singapore
- StageSeries B · $48M (Mar 2024)
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CHAPTER 01 — ORIGIN
Founded in 2017 by engineers who had already built city-scale geospatial systems — and decided they could no longer watch city halls wait eighteen months for a planning answer.
Bakrabata was incorporated in Boston in March 2017 by a small group of geospatial engineers who had spent the previous decade inside two very different institutions: Palantir's forward-deployed geospatial practice, and the MIT Senseable City Lab. Between them they had shipped decision-support systems for transit authorities, port operators, and national mapping agencies — but kept arriving at the same conclusion. The municipal stack, where the consequences of slow planning are most acute, was being asked to make do with 1990s GIS workflows bolted onto brittle data feeds.
The founding premise was deliberately narrow: if you could fuse LiDAR, Sentinel-2 satellite tiles, municipal IoT, and permitting registries into a single queryable layer — and do it on a public-sector timeline — you could give Chief Sustainability Officers and Smart City Directors an operating system for the city that actually existed this morning, not the one a static map insisted on.
Eight years later, that premise has become a platform: 142 employees, 38 of whom hold PhDs in remote sensing, urban planning, or applied machine learning; engineering offices in Boston, Lisbon, and Singapore; and 87 deployed municipal clients from Lyon to Rotterdam to the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore.
“We didn't start a SaaS company. We started by watching city planners wait nine months for an answer a satellite had already given them.”
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CHAPTER 02 — PEOPLE
Researchers and operators, not career SaaS executives.
The principals are recognized for the specific geospatial discipline they command — academic lineage, prior operational responsibility, and the deployments that justify the credential.
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CO-FOUNDER · CEO
Dr. Imani Okafor
Chief Executive Officer
Architected the multi-source fusion pipeline that became StreamWeave. Led Boston's real-time curb-use pilot with the City of Boston Streets Cabinet before founding Bakrabata.
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CO-FOUNDER · CTO
Mateo Vasquez
Chief Technology Officer
Built three of Palantir's largest federal geospatial deployments before co-founding Bakrabata. Owns the platform architecture and the public-sector security posture.
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PRINCIPAL · CHIEF DATA OFFICER
Dr. Saoirse Lindqvist
Chief Data Officer
Author of the flood-exposure methodology Bakrabata ships to 64 of its 87 clients. Chairs the platform's data ethics and provenance review board.
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CHAPTER 03 — BY THE NUMBERS
The operational scale of the team, and the depth of its technical bench.
The figures below are the ones a public-sector procurement officer reaches for first. They are the same figures our security and vendor-risk teams provide on request.
38
PhDs on the technical staff
- 14 in remote sensing / earth observation
- 11 in urban planning & transport
- 13 in applied ML & systems engineering
3
Boston · Lisbon · Singapore
- HQ & product engineering — Boston
- EMEA municipal partnerships — Lisbon
- APAC public-sector deployments — Singapore
87
municipalities · 19 countries
- Lyon · Rotterdam · Singapore URA
- 99.97% platform uptime (trailing 12 months)
- Forrester-verified $3.10 ROI per $1 spent
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CHAPTER 04 — GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
Three offices. Follow-the-sun coverage for global cities.
Each office carries a distinct mandate — product, EMEA municipal delivery, APAC public-sector delivery — and a hiring pipeline tuned to the regulatory environment it serves.
Boston — Headquarters & Product
222 Berkeley Street, 14th Floor. 86 employees. Owns the StreamWeave platform roadmap, security & compliance, and the applied-research function that ships quarterly platform releases.
Lisbon — EMEA Municipal Delivery
Opened 2020. 31 employees. Embedded partner managers for European municipal clients, GDPR and EU CSRD data-handling, and the multilingual support desk covering CET through GMT+2.
Singapore — APAC Public-Sector
Opened 2022. 25 employees. Deploys to the Urban Redevelopment Authority and APAC partner cities; owns the WEF Global Cities Alliance liaison and APAC sovereign-cloud posture.
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CHAPTER 05 — PROCUREMENT RECORD
Well-capitalized, awarded, partnered, and certified for sensitive environments.
Each line below is verifiable on request through our vendor-risk packet — the same packet our municipal procurement officers attach to RFP responses.
$48M Series B closed March 2024 — Andreessen Horowitz, with Breakthrough Energy
Led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Breakthrough Energy and existing seed/Series A investors. Capital allocated to APAC public-sector delivery, climate-risk module expansion, and SOC 2 / FedRAMP certification cycles.
MIT Technology Review — “50 Smartest Companies 2024”
Recognized for shipping the only platform offering fully fused LiDAR + Sentinel-2 + municipal IoT layers out-of-the-box, and for sustained reductions in municipal infrastructure planning cycles.
GeoIntel Awards — Smart City Solution of the Year 2024
Awarded over Siemens and Esri. Jurors cited the StreamWeave engine's 14M geospatial data points per second ingestion with sub-50ms query latency as the technical differentiator.
World Economic Forum Global Cities Alliance partnership & SOC 2 / FedRAMP Moderate
Q2 2024 partnership with the WEF Global Cities Alliance; Bakrabata contributes platform methodology and a public dashboard tracking 12,400+ urban climate indicators updated every 15 minutes. SOC 2 Type II and FedRAMP Moderate certifications in force.