Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that’s being built by an Oslo, Norw

Atlas.co wants its web-based mapping tool to be the Figma of geospatial data

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2024-11-14 09:30:03

Startup inspiration can strike anywhere. But for Atlas.co*, a freemium browser-based, real-time mapping tool that’s being built by an Oslo, Norway-based team of (initially student) engineers, the realization that there might be a business opportunity in competing with expensive legacy mapping software hit the founders during class.

“When we took introduction class to GIS [geographic information system], half of the class wasn’t able to download it because their computer didn’t meet the requirements of the software,” Fredrik Moger, CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. “That’s a barrier in general, right? And I think if you look… maybe 10 years back, Adobe kind of faced the same issue. And then Figma came on the field.”

Atlas wants to unlock the power of GIS data in a similar way, sidestepping the drag and cost of legacy software by offering a more flexible, user-friendly cloud-based collaboration platform and a software-as-a-service business model that starts at free and scales with usage.

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