By Karim Gillani, July 29, 2025 

We’re thrilled to announce our new investment in San Francisco-based  Geolava, the spatial intelligence solution that makes the physical world searchable. Luge led a $4.3M funding round with participation from Suffolk Technologies, a leading venture firm that focuses on the built environment, and E2MC, an investment firm specializing in space and space travel tech. Geolava helps large real estate owners, investors, lenders, and operators see beyond what exists on a property, and allows them to ask questions about risk, value and compliance.

Using unstructured and scattered data from satellite, LiDAR, aerial, street-level and government databases, Geolava’s team has built a well-trained foundation model that allows you to ask complex questions about the physical world and get answers instantly.

Geolava is building Google for the physical world, but smarter, capable of understanding what’s happening, why, and what action should be taken.

 
Imagine you could ask the following questions:

• What is the quality of the roof on this building compared to the roofs on the buildings in my current portfolio?
• Is the structure behind the main building at 123 Main Street compliant with the local zoning laws?
• Does the HVAC system of the tower at 987 First Street need to be upgraded?
• Can you show me all the buildings in the 10014 zip code that are within 0.5 miles of the Hudson River and have an unobstructed view of the water?

1. Bridging Digital Intelligence with the Physical World

We believe AI’s true frontier lies at the intersection of language, vision, and location. Geolava offers a spatial intelligence layer for the real world, enabling organizations to query “tell me about that building: its compliance, condition, occupancy, and solar potential” in seconds, not months. This is a fundamental shift for commercial real estate investors who previously relied on long due diligence cycles, in-person site visits and manual analysis.

2. A Massive $20T+ Total Addressable Market

Today’s standard practices for managing nearly $20 trillion of real estate and critical infrastructure rely on fragmented data and inefficient workflows — manual inspections, 3–18 month sale cycles, and rule-based compliance checks plague this industry. Geolava replaces guesswork with real-time, predictive spatial analytics: from risk assessment to permitting and trend detection. That’s a multi-trillion dollar greenfield.

3. Built for Scale and Versatility

From SaaS dashboards to API hooks, Geolava’s platform and pre-trained agents let users integrate spatial reasoning into workflows in days, not years. Whether your application is municipal inspections, solar site planning, insurance underwriting, or retail foot-traffic insights, their APIs are ready to plug and play. The multi-vertical flexibility is rare and powerful.

4. World-Class Team Moving at Lightning Speed

Geolava is led by Hantz Févry, a repeat founder who knows how to take an AI product from 0 to 1. Alongside his co-founder Pierre Mombeleur, he built Stoovo (acquired by Doorstep in 2024), a location intelligence platform that mapped over 130 million buildings and increased delivery efficiency for major enterprises, including Apple, GM, and FedEx. Hantz is also a former Google Product Manager, where he led the AI research team for Google Assistant.

Hantz and Pierre have assembled a sharp team of geospatial, vision, and NLP experts. They’ve shipped quickly, landed early customers, and have caught the attention of large enterprise partners. The velocity is real.

At a time when AI is flooding the digital world, Geolava is bringing intelligence back to the physical world. It’s a huge, underexplored frontier, and Geolava’s AI software is set up to eat the world.

Game On!

Geolava is currently hiring! View their open positions here. 

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