TomTom
Since changing the way people drive, we have never stopped thinking about how we can improve how the world moves.
Our highly accurate maps, navigation software, real-time traffic information and APIs enable smart mobility on a global scale, making the roads safer, the drive easier and the air cleaner. TomTom technologies are helping to solve the challenges of climate change and road-related accidents by changing the way people move. That’s what motivates us to create and refine products that are designed to accelerate the adoption of automated, connected and electric driving.
Our founders are still in the lead of TomTom – working from our Amsterdam headquarters and overseeing 30 offices around the world. Together, we are a 4,500+ strong team of amazingly talented, diverse individuals that make the location technologies relied upon by hundreds of millions of drivers, businesses and governments.
Our story
It started with a simple idea: Make digital navigation accessible for everyone. Four like-minded entrepreneurs founded TomTom in 1991, and by 2004 their dream of portable navigation was a reality for millions of drivers around the world. The first TomTom sat nav became one of the fastest selling consumer technology devices in history, making our name synonymous with navigation.
Today, TomTom is the leading independent location technology specialist. Our decades of driver insights go into everything we do – maps for automated driving, navigation software for top car brands, maps APIs for leading tech companies and traffic data for all. Our technologies are a vehicle for us to take on bigger challenges. Rather than accept road accidents, emissions and traffic congestion as facts of life, we are actively working to solve these issues that affect us all.