The company of software and artificial intelligence (AI) Wovenware moved its operations to the Golden Mile of Hato Rey, where they occupy two floors of the Plaza 273 tower.
As reported by the company in a statement, the move allows them to “more fully support its parent company, Maxar Intelligence, with world-class AI, software engineering, design and production capabilities.”
The new 22,000 square foot headquarters increases by almost 70% the footprint of the 13,000 square foot office that they occupied since 2019 in the San Juan complex of the Department of Recreation and Sports in San Juan.
“As we continue to collaborate closely with our colleagues at Maxar Intelligence, our team in San Juan is committed to supporting the corporate mission of harnessing the power of very high resolution satellite imagery, software and AI to build secure data-driven intelligence and insights for critical missions on Earth and in space“, indicated in writing Christian González, vice president, general manager and co-founder of Wovenware.”
Specifically, the two floors include state-of-the-art design workstations, conference rooms, kitchen and breakout areas. Also highlighted was the creation of an independent space for data production, where the team in charge of classifying and labeling training data for AI solutions can guarantee the privacy and confidentiality of the missions. The amount of the investment was not shared.
“Our new headquarters in the heart of San Juan provides us with comfortable and convenient facilities to collaborate and innovate more easily with the global Maxar team, as well as with our local community in Puerto Rico,” added González, who in 2003 co-founded Wovenware with Carlos Melendez.
In addition, Plaza 273 is a tower certified by the United States Department of Homeland Security and essential services redundancy systems. These elements gain relevance given that Maxar is a contractor for the United States Department of Defense.
Following the acquisition announced in November 2022, Wovenware became a subsidiary and Maxar center of excellence in product development softwareAI and machine learning. They retained their name, staff and management team.
As an example of what Wovenware has already brought to the capabilities of its parent company, Wovenware posted on its corporate website that they collaborated with Maxar “to enrich the capabilities of SecureWatch, a cloud-based subscription service that provides access to ground-based intelligence. The goal was clear: to implement advanced computer vision models for automated aircraft detection at airports around the world, thus revolutionizing geospatial analysis.”
The reported result was that “Maxar successfully implemented an updated aircraft detection model that offers training efficiency ten times higher to previous versions, while providing significantly improved accuracy, demonstrating the transformative impact of computer vision in geospatial analysis.”
Since the acquisition, Wovenware has also seen its workforce grow from 150 to more than 250 employees.