About Farun

Location technology for places
the cloud cannot reach.

Farun builds edge-compute navigation hardware and spatial APIs for teams that operate beyond reliable connectivity from open water and deep forests to industrial corridors and agricultural zones.

The problem

Modern mapping breaks exactly where it matters most.

Virtually every mapping stack today, Google Maps, Mapbox, HERE is architected around the assumption of a fast, reliable internet connection. Route calculation happens in the cloud. Map tiles stream from a CDN. Geocoding queries a remote server.

That architecture works fine in urban environments. It fails completely when a logistics convoy enters a dead zone, when a marine operator leaves cellular range, when a field team reaches an industrial area with no signal, or when an emergency response team deploys after infrastructure goes down.

Farun was built for that failure mode. Every product we ship works fully offline, not as a fallback feature, but as the primary design constraint.

60%

of Earth's land area has no reliable mobile coverage

100%

of Farun's navigation stack runs without internet

0

cloud round-trips required to navigate, route, or search

2

domains covered - land navigation and open-water marine

Mission

Make navigation resilient.

We believe spatial intelligence should be a utility, reliable, always available, and independent of external infrastructure. Our mission is to move maps, routing, and location context onto devices and private infrastructure that teams actually control.

How we build

01

Offline first, always

Every feature we ship must work without any network connection. Cloud enhancement is additive, never a dependency.

02

Hardware and software as one

We build the device and the API together. That gives us control over the full stack and lets us solve problems that purely-software companies cannot.

03

Built for the edge case

Our customers operate in conditions that break conventional mapping. We design for the hardest environment we know and the easy cases take care of themselves.

04

Private by default

Location data is sensitive. Our architecture lets operators keep position data entirely on-device or within their own infrastructure, never transmitted to us unless they choose to.

05

Honest about what we are

Farun is early access. We show real specs, real capabilities, and real limitations. We would rather lose a sale than oversell a feature.

06

Land and sea

Navigation doesn't stop at the shoreline. We build for the full journey from the vehicle dash to the helm with the same device.

Team

Product and engineering focused.

Farun is a small, technical team. We move fast and we build things ourselves. Most of the team has a background in embedded systems, cartography, logistics software, or marine technology.

Individual profiles will be published as Farun moves from early access into wider availability. If you want to know who you'd be working with before a procurement decision, reach out directly and we'll put you in touch with the right person.

What the team works on

Hardware Engineering

GNSS module integration, enclosure design, power management, and environmental testing.

Embedded C GNSS PCB Design

Cartography & Data

Vector tile pipeline, elevation dataset processing, nautical chart integration, and POI database curation.

OSM GDAL PostGIS

API Platform

REST API infrastructure, routing engine, isochrone computation, tile serving, and RapidAPI integration.

OSRM Rust Go

Product & Design

Device UI/UX, web platform, documentation, and the developer experience across APIs and SDKs.

Astro Figma TypeScript

Want to see it working?

We run hands-on demos for fleet operators, marine users, and enterprise developers. No slide decks, just the actual hardware and APIs.