FOUNDED BY THE ORIGINAL CREATORS OF APACHE SEDONA

2017

Jia Yu and Mo Sarwat released the first version of Sedona (back then named GeoSpark), which extended big data systems to support spatial data processing capabilities. In less than two years, the project gained traction and saw use in production use cases.

2020

Sedona entered the Apache Software Foundation. It provides support for both Apache Spark and Apache Flink as well as enables users to develop their spatial data processing jobs using Spatial SQL and Spatial Python.

2022

Jia and Mo saw modern analytics engines providing incomplete support for spatial data. In June of 2022, they founded Wherobots to bring first-class support for spatial data and compute in the cloud.

2023

Wherobots launched SedonaDB and Wherobots Cloud in October 2023, making Sedona’s spatial analytics technology available as a serverless cloud solution.

2024

Apache Sedona reaches over 40 million in downloads, 200% growth with over 2 million a month. The team raises its Series-A funding round and expands the product offering to include WherobotsAI for Raster Inference, integrations of WherobotsDB with the Spatial API and SDK. Delivers integration with AWS marketplace for easy adoption for Amazon customers.