Carto (company)

Developer(s)CARTODB Inc.
Initial releaseSeptember 15, 2011
Written inTypeScript, JavaScript, React, SQL, Python
TypeLocation intelligence, Geographic information system
Websitecarto.com

CARTO (formerly CartoDB) is a software as a service (SaaS) spatial analysis platform that provides GIS, web mapping, data visualization, spatial analytics, and spatial data science features. The company is positioned as a Location Intelligence platform due to its tools for geospatial data analysis and visualization that do not require advanced GIS or development experience. As a cloud-native platform, CARTO runs natively on cloud data warehouse platforms overcoming any previous limits on data scale for spatial workloads.

CARTO is a cloud-first geospatial platform explicitly developed for accelerated and contemporary Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It operates on diverse cloud data warehouse platforms including Google BigQuery, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Databricks, among others. This enables convenient access to scalable spatial analysis and data visualization in the cloud, streamlining spatial analytics, application development, data engineering, and related workloads. CARTO is accessible as both a cloud-based SaaS offering or a self-hosted deployment for enterprises wishing to run CARTO on their own private infrastructure.

CARTO was initially released in Beta at FOSS4G in Denver in September 2011,[1] and officially debuted as a final release at Where2.0 in April 2012.[2] Since 2014, CARTO is a company independent from Vizzuality.[3] The Spanish start-up raised $7 million from a consortium of investors in September 2014.[4] In September 2015, CARTO received a $23 million in Series B financing.[5] In May 2019, CARTO acquired Geographical, in an effort to boost their professional services offering.[6] In 2021, CARTO raised $61 million in series C financing, with Insight Partners leading the round. [7]

  1. ^ "FOSS4G 2011 Program". FOSS4G. 2011-10-15. Archived from the original on 2013-08-03. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  2. ^ "Where2.0 2012 Program". O'Reilly. 2012-04-02. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  3. ^ "CartoDB, la startup que no nació para ser rica, sino famosa". Hipertextual. 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  4. ^ CartoDB, Interactive Mapping Start-Up, Raises $7 Million By Mark Scott, bits.blogs.nytimes.com, September 10, 2014
  5. ^ "Announcing our $23M Series B round". CARTO Blog. 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-09-25.[permanent dead link‍]
  6. ^ "CARTO acquires Geographica to expand its professional services offering". CARTO. 2019-05-29. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
  7. ^ Dillet, Romain (December 14, 2021). "Carto raises $61 million to help you visualize data on maps". TechCrunch.