10/29/2025
SAN FRANCISCO- Crescent Cove Advisors (“Crescent Cove”), a San Francisco based private investment firm focused on the technology sector, today announced a new investment in Atlanta-based MapLarge, a geospatial intelligence and software company driving innovation across commercial and defense applications.
The transaction refinanced a prior U.S. Treasury loan issued through a Department of Defense program during the COVID-19 period and provides capital for the development of a new R&D facility.
“MapLarge embodies the qualities we value most – exceptional technical depth, long-term vision and a disciplined approach to building enduring businesses,” said Jun Hong Heng, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Crescent Cove and Steve Michau, Managing Director. “We are proud to partner with a company that plays such a critical role in national security and advanced data intelligence and we look forward to supporting their continued growth.”
For more than 16 years, MapLarge has built its success as a self-funded, bootstrapped innovator, continually advancing the frontiers of geospatial technology. The company’s highly-skilled team has extensive experience supporting critical commercial, defense and intelligence missions, delivering advanced applications for enterprise operations.
“We’re excited to partner with Crescent Cove as we continue building on our mission to deliver advanced geospatial intelligence solutions for both commercial and defense clients,” said Lynwood Bishop, CEO of Maplarge and Glenn Kirbo, Founder and Chief Technical Officer at MapLarge. “This partnership provides us with additional flexibility to accelerate innovation, expand our platform, and deepen the impact our technology has across critical industries. Our platform’s ability to rapidly deploy AI-powered applications at scale is a key differentiator, and this investment will help us push those capabilities even further.” For Crescent Cove, the investment reflects its strategy of partnering with founder-led, capital-efficient technology companies that are reshaping core sectors of the economy.
About Crescent Cove
Founded in 2016, Crescent Cove Advisors LP is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on the technology sector. The firm partners with experienced management teams to provide flexible capital solutions to growth-stage businesses
About Maplarge
MapLarge is a high-performance geospatial application platform that enables organizations to build and deploy mission-critical, spatially-aware applications. The company’s component-based architecture accelerates the development of mission-critical applications, allowing for no-code, low-code, and pro-code solutions to be deployed 10x faster than traditional methods. Serving industries from aerospace and defense to logistics and energy, MapLarge provides a full-stack, open-standards platform for multi-domain AI, real-time data ingest, and advanced analytics at an enterprise scale. Learn more at MapLarge.com.