Punktpilvi

Punktpilvi is a Finnish cloud‑based service provider founded in 2012 in Helsinki. The company specializes in processing and delivering large geospatial datasets, with a particular focus on point cloud data generated by LiDAR and photogrammetric sensors. By using distributed computing and automated workflows, Punktpilvi offers clients the ability to upload raw point cloud files, perform denoising, segmentation, and semantic classification, and then export the results in commonly used formats such as LAS, LAZ, or GeoTIFF. The platform is accessed through a web portal and a set of RESTful APIs that enable integration with industry tools such as QGIS, ArcGIS, and Autodesk Revit.

Punktpilvi’s client base includes municipalities, engineering firms, environmental agencies, and the timber industry. The service has been employed for applications ranging from forest inventory and mountain risk assessment to infrastructure planning in urban environments. In 2018 the company secured a partnership with the Finnish Meteorological Institute to provide rapid terrain updates for weather simulation models. In 2020 it acquired the startup VantageCloud, expanding its capabilities in 3D mapping and analytics.

The company is privately owned and led by a founding team with backgrounds in geographic information science and software engineering. Its headquarters host a data center that complies with European Union data protection regulations and adopts ISO/IEC 27001 for information security management. Punktpilvi participates in several European research projects, including the Horizon Europe framework, and contributes to open‑source geospatial initiatives. The service remains subscription‑based, offering tiered plans that scale with data volume and processing complexity.