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Maxar Acquires Wovenware To Strengthen AI Capabilities

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

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Maxar Acquires Wovenware To Strengthen AI Capabilities

Christian Gonzalez, CEO and co-founder of Wovenware. Photo: Wovenware

The commercial remote sensing company Maxar Technologies [MAXR] on Thursday said it acquired Wovenware, which specializes in artificial intelligence and software developing, and will make the Puerto Rico-based company one of its software development and AI/machine learning (ML) centers of excellence. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wovenware has about 150 employees. The two companies have worked together for the past five years on customer delivery and internal software engineering initiatives such as Maxar’s global imagery basemaps and Precision3D…

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