Septentrio
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | GNSS |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Peter Grognard |
| Headquarters | Leuven, Belgium |
Key people | Antoon De Proft, CEO |
| Products | GNSS receivers |
| Owner | Hexagon AB |
Number of employees | about 120 |
| Website | http://www.septentrio.com |
Septentrio N.V. is a designer and manufacturer of high-end multi-frequency GNSS receivers. Its main target is to provide GNSS receiver boards and modules for further system integration by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Its core technology is used in various professional fields such as land and airborne surveying, mobile mapping, machine control, precision agriculture, mining, transport, offshore applications, construction, timing and geodesy etc.
The company was incorporated by Peter Grognard in Leuven, Belgium, in January 2000 to commercialize the Satellite Navigation know-how developed at the Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center, the largest independent microelectronics and nanotechnology R&D lab in Belgium.
In 2007 the firm received the Trends Gazelle award for the fastest rate of growth among Belgian start-up companies.
In January 2025, Hexagon AB announced that they would acquire Septentrio N.V.[1] This transaction was completed two months later.[2]
