Ajay Bulusu

NextBillion.ai provides location intelligence AI and mapping APIs for mobility, logistics, and fleet management applications, offering routing optimisation, maps, and geospatial data products with customisation and performance characteristics designed for emerging market geographies where existing mapping data quality and routing models are insufficient for commercial deployment. The Singapore company targets ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics operators that require high-accuracy routing in markets including Southeast Asia, India, and Africa.\n\nThe company raised approximately $60 million in venture funding from investors including Lightspeed India, Peak XV Partners, and Wavemaker Partners. NextBillion.ai counts fleet management companies, on-demand delivery operators, and logistics providers across emerging markets among its clients, offering mapping APIs that are optimised for local road conditions, traffic patterns, and address systems in markets where global mapping providers such as Google and HERE offer lower coverage quality.\n\nNextBillion.ai competes in the location and mapping API market against Google Maps Platform, HERE Technologies, and Mapbox, with a specific focus on the emerging market segment where the founders former experience at Grab, the Southeast Asian super-app, provides direct insight into the mapping accuracy requirements for high-frequency delivery and mobility operations. The company machine learning approach to map quality improvement using GPS trace data from fleet operators creates a feedback loop that improves map accuracy from operational data in markets where manual map data collection has historically been incomplete.