You’re lost. Even worse, there’s no cell signal. The last thing keeping you from fully freaking out is that little blue dot — the universal sign that, somewhere up above, a GPS satellite has eyes on you.
But what if you don’t even have that?
Kanwar Singh thinks he’s got a solution. For the past few years he’s been building a vision-based navigation system with his startup Skyline Nav AI. The so-called Pathfinder software can look at almost anything — buildings, tree-lined roads, even aerial views — and quickly match it to a database and generate real-time navigation.
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.
It’s that use case in particular that has Skyline Nav AI already working with the Department of Defense, NASA, and 100-year-old defense contractor Kearfott, despite being a bootstrapped startup with just eight full-time employees.
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.
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