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FocalPoint

start up
United Kingdom - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
  • 08/09/2022
  • Series C
  • $17,000,000

Focal Point Positioning Ltd. was founded in 2015 with the aim of bringing accurate position and time to smartphones and autonomous platforms, indoors and out. Focal Point's team are building on over 100 years of experience in cutting-edge positioning technologies and are bringing game-changing new technologies to the world of PNT.


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Ramsey FaragherFounder

Ramsey Faragher United Kingdom - Greater Cambridge Area

Dr Ramsey Faragher is a world-leading expert in GNSS-denied positioning, sensor fusion, and
machine-learning for navigation systems. He is the Founder, President, CTO and an Executive Director of Focal Point Positioning Ltd. and is leading the development of game-changing new technologies to set new standards in GNSS, indoor positioning and autonomous positioning systems. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a Bye Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where he developed the first online SLAM-based indoor positioning system for smartphones.

Earlier in his career he was a Principal Scientist at the BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre where he developed the award-winning and patented NAVSOP opportunistic positioning suite and other GNSS-denied tracking technologies. In 2009 he won the BAE Systems Early Career Engineer of the Year award for developing NAVSOP.

Ramsey has developed and recommended state-of-the-art improvements to the navigation systems of manned and autonomous platforms in the land, air and sea domains working with BAE Systems, MOD, ESA, RSSB and a number of SMEs. He regularly contributes to BBC Naked Scientists broadcasts, writes for Forbes, and has also provided science advice for two television production companies.

Specialities: Deep-tech startups, GNSS signal processing, Opportunistic Radio Positioning, GPS-Denied Navigation, Multipath Mitigation, Sensor Fusion, Remote Sensing, Bayesian Inference, Autonomy, Machine Learning, Physics, Systems Engineering.