NAVENTIK GmbH is a spin-off from the University of Technology Chemnitz. Based on more than 18 years (combined) of R&D of the founders, the company’s mission is to enable satellite navigation for automated driving. Core competency is the integration of GNSS data into vehicle positioning architectures for ADAS of SAE Level 3+. Along the requirements for the mass market deployment these systems, NAVENTIK has created a software based GNSS sensor plus fusion algorithms - dedicated for the deep integration into state-of-the-art vehicle sensor stacks.
We are the first vendor on the market to offer a comprehensive sensor plus fusion solution for direct embedding on the automotive ECU. After the successful market entry in 2018, NAVENTIK currently serves commercial customers in ADAS projects in Europe, the USA & China.
Backed by VC investors and strategic partnerships with major Tier 1’s and OEM’s, NAVENTIK currently employs highly specialized software developers, customer integration engineers and business developers. Beyond technological leadership, NAVENTIK gained market & business development experience during renowned accelerator programs like Susanne Klatten’s “Techfounders” and Volkswagens “Future Mobility Accelerator”.
NAVENTIK was awarded with the main price for digital innovations at Cebit 2017 and ranked as most innovative automotive company in central Germany and Top 10 Startup in Germany 2018.
We are a team passionate about highly automated and autonomous driving, helping to revolutionise the future of mobility. Located in the heart of Chemnitz, Germany, we develop the PATHFINDER localization technology for safety-critical automotive applications.
Sven Bauer
CTO
Peter Kalinowski
CEO
Michael Jüttner
COO
Sven has been programming with passion since he received his first computer almost three decades ago and then studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden. Afterwards he worked as a scientific assistant at the Chair of Communications Engineering in Chemnitz, where he developed the first GNSS navigation algorithms for PATHFINDER. Within NAVENTIK, he pursues the further development of PATHFINDER to meet all automotive requirements in terms of safety and reliability.
NAVENTIK as a member of various consortia as well as individual team members can look back on a long success story of participation in cooperative research projects.
GNSS and Sensor Fusion related publications of NAVENTIK's founders
NAVENTIK’s mission is to bring GNSS reference navigation technology for automated and autonomous driving into series production. The qualification of a technology for series production in the automotive sector is a longterm process. On our way to reach this passionate goal, we are paving the way for exciting applications alongside automotive use cases.
Today
PATHFINDER is available for research and development as well as for validation purposes. We work in close collaboration with our customers on solutions for dedicated problems in vehicle automation and industrial applications.
This helps us to understand real world requirements and constraints.
From 2021
A carefully selected set of applications and usecases will be qualified for safety-critical requirements. Especially for industrial applications such as construction and Level 3+ vehicle automation, PATHFINDER will be able to replace expensive GNSS reference systems.
From 2022
The qualification of the entire safety lifecycle for GNSS systems requires the supervision of every part involved. From GNSS service providers to external services providers, technology providers, system integrators and function developers, NAVENTIK will collaborate with all stakeholders to cover the entire safety-lifecycle.
Finally, we are striving to qualify our technology for vehicle automation levels 4 and 5.
We intend our customers to develop and market products in series that fulfill all safety requirements for driver assistance systems for highly automated and autonomous driving. For this purpose, we guarantee our customers reliable and precise positioning with satellite navigation. To this end, we are constantly striving to further develop and improve our business and our products. What we promise, we deliver.
