The Future of AI-Powered Mapping: A Letter from Ariel, CEO

Hardware is hard.

Map AI at the edge is harder.

We lived through the pain.

And then we got it right with the Bee running Map AI 🐝

Map AI is running at the edge across millions of road-kilometers every week. It takes raw pixels and turns them into a live map of road widths, lanes, speed limits, gas prices, turn restrictions, and more —everything that matters for navigation.  Used by Lyft, Volkswagen, and many others. That traction let us raise $32M from top investors who understand crypto with real world utility to fuel the next chapter:

Everyday we talk to existing and new customers and the message is the same.  We love this data, give us more coverage. 

We are going to light up smaller cities.

We are going to refresh even faster in major cities.

We are going to be in more trucks, vans, and cars on the road.

With this in mind we are launching the Bee Membership for only $19/month — and it includes the Bee LTE, Connectivity from Helium, and fleet safety software. 

That’s less than four coffees. Just mount it and plug it in and help build a live map the world can rely on.

HONEY is a real economic layer for navigation — earned and spent by moving through the world.  Last week set a new high for weekly HONEY burn. More burn paths and buy options are coming. 

Maps haven’t changed in a decade: search, route, done. People and robotaxis don’t travel that way. We’re building the map that matches how the world actually moves—and how machines will, too.

Today is day one of the new chapter.

Thank you all for your commitment to Hivemapper.

Onwards

-ariel

CEO & Co-Founder, Bee Maps