Our Mission is Critical.

We are a team of successful multi-time founders, former defense officials and intelligence officers, seasoned enterprise software sales leaders, and experienced ML, robotics, and software engineers harnessing the power of Earth’s magnetic field for localization and navigation. We apply proprietary machine learning algorithms and sensor fusion techniques to deliver unprecedented capabilities and unlock extraordinary value across industries.

“The M-GPS® software application appears very mature and clearly provides a reliable source of navigation information in GPS-denied environments.”
— Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Operator
“Swiftly is leveraging AstraNav’s capabilities to enable shoppers to efficiently locate the products they are looking for, unlock personalized promotions and coupons that are specific to the aisle they’re shopping, and ultimately save them time and money, all with zero extra capital investments from our retail partners.”
— Sean Turner, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftly Systems
"This application needs to be integrated into the TAK environment for immediate use, or with any hardware that already employs a magnetometer.”
— Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Operator
"All of our PNT devices should have this software in them.”
— Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Operator
“AstraNav’s infrastructure-free M-GPS tech worked as soon as users entered the store to give sub-meter accuracy navigation and turn-by-turn directions to any items in the store on their smartphones.”
— Sean Turner, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftly Systems
"At Virginia Tech, we were able to easily integrate M-GPS with commercial off-the shelf (COTS) autonomous vehicles to achieve sub-meter accuracy positioning, even indoors. AstraNav M-GPS can achieve accurate, efficient, and resilient sub-meter positioning and has the potential to be a completely ‘plug-and-play’ technology for consumers over a wide range of applications and in all domains.”
— Leon K. Harding, Ph.D. and Kevin Schroeder, Ph.D., Virginia Tech
“The AstraNav technology application and demo hardware worked flawlessly in sub-terrain environment scenario. On-the-fly mapping with backtrack and replay route were both demonstrated with great precision.”
— Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Operator
“Since 2019, my team has independently reviewed AstraNav's M-GPS technology and the science behind it. I can confirm that it genuinely uses magnetic fields to provide stable and accurate navigation. Being independent of GPS, the technology fills the gap of other navigation approaches creating limitless opportunities for potential applications.”
— Prof. Ruben E. Perez, Advanced Aircraft Design LabRoyal Military College of Canada

Our Team

Alexandre “Sasha” Toutov, PhD

CTO & Inventor

Anton Toutov, PhD

CEO

Michelle Saks

Chief of Staff

Philip Broder

Mobile Systems Architect

Martin Neill

Vice President, Security and Defense

Adrian Medina

Strategic Partnerships

Advisory Board

General Kevin Chilton (Ret.)

US Air Force • NASA

Admiral Eric Olson (Ret.)

US Navy • Homeland Security

J. Kim Fennell

Uber • deCarta

Ken Krieg

US DoD • Harvard Kennedy School

About AstraNav

AstraNav is a technology company that delivers universal positioning and navigation capabilities to billions of devices, from everyday smartphones to highly complex navigation systems. Founded by a team of experts from NASA, Intel and Caltech, AstraNav’s core M-GPS® software technology harnesses the Earth’s magnetic field to produce highly accurate and robust positioning and navigation under all conditions, environments, and domains, without requiring any external connectivity (e.g., satellites, Wi-Fi, BLE), additional hardware or infrastructure. Everywhere. Always.