Ariel SeidmanCo Founder

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

As the CEO & Co-Founder of Hivemapper, I coordinate our engineering and business development teams to delight contributors and customers.

Hivemapper is a decentralized, ever-updating map built by people, using dashcams, who soon will mine our cryptocurrency, HONEY.

This new mapping economy represents a fundamental shift in how maps are built and who owns them, sharing the economic benefits of a global map with those who are building it.

I got my start in mapping over a decade ago at Yahoo! Search and Maps — learned a ton about building maps at scale. It's much too expensive. Since then I'm on a mission to build a new global map.

I went on to start Gigwalk, a location based data collection company that turns mobile devices into a second paycheck collecting data for all the top mapping companies. Gigwalk was recognized by Fast Company as a Top 10 Mobile Innovation Company.