# Vangrid

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/vangrid

- Industry: IT Infrastructure
- Headquarters: Road Town, British Virgin Islands
- Website: www.vangrid.io
- Total disclosed funding: $9M
- Latest round: Seed (Jan 30, 2026)
- Investors on record: 6

## About

Founded in 2025 by Robert Brighton (Co-founder & CEO), Khalid Benrafik (Co-Founder & CTO), Vangrid Inc. is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The company develops a decentralized spatial intelligence network that uses smartphone cameras and sensors to capture real-world locations, reconstruct them into 3D spatial models and verify data provenance on chain for robotics, autonomous systems, mapping, simulation and defense applications. In January 2026, Vangrid Inc. raised USD 9 million in seed funding from new investors Animoca Brands , Borderless Capital, Crypto.com Capital, Gate Ventures, HashKey Capital, and Mapleblock Capital, with participation from other unspecified investors.

The company will use the January 2026, funding to bootstrap its crowdsourced spatial-data network, expand its automated edge-computation pipeline and core technology infrastructure, grow its team, explore new market opportunities and deepen enterprise partnerships across the defense and autonomous-systems sectors. The investment will also support the delivery of continuously updated high-fidelity spatial data for robotics and other Physical AI applications.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Jan 30, 2026, $9M — Gate Ventures, Borderless Capital, HashKey Capital, Crypto.com Capital, Mapleblock Capital, Animoca Brands

## Investors

- Gate Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gate-ventures) — Seed
- Borderless Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/borderless-capital) — Seed
- HashKey Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hashkey-capital) — Seed
- Crypto.com Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/crypto-com-capital) — Seed
- Mapleblock Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/mapleblock-capital) — Seed
- Animoca Brands (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/animoca-brands) — Seed