"That could be useful if you're in a big city with tall buildings, or on a canyon road surrounded by mountains, where line-of-sight to a GPS satellite is blocked. (Singh knows this all too well, too: In 2014, his friend Hari Simran Singh Khalsa died while hiking mountains in Mexico, having lost his way.) But Singh says an even more important near-term use - one he says is crucial for national security - is that Skyline's tech can be a backstop against an increasingly popular tool of modern warfare: GPS jamming."
"Now, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Singh will make his pitch for the tech on the Startup Battlefield stage; Skyline Nav AI is a Top 20 finalist in the startup competition. And he's brought along a new product to show off: Pathfinder Edge. It's a small edge computer with a shrunk-down version of Pathfinder that can be installed on almost anything to enable the use of Skyline's "GPS-independent" navigation."
Kanwar Singh built vision-based Pathfinder to provide navigation by matching visible surroundings—buildings, tree-lined roads, aerial views—to a database and generating real-time positioning. The approach helps where GPS line-of-sight is blocked, such as urban canyons and mountain roads, and can serve as a backstop against GPS jamming. Skyline Nav AI is working with the Department of Defense, NASA, and defense contractor Kearfott while remaining a bootstrapped team of eight full-time employees. Pathfinder Edge is a small edge computer that contains a shrunk-down Pathfinder for installation on many platforms to enable GPS-independent navigation. Visual navigation has historical precedent in systems like Tomahawk missiles.
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