Our trip to Connected World last week led to the discovery of GeoSpock, a startup that offers a cloud-based platform to assist with collation, processing and visualization of vast geospatial data sets. With smart city and maritime partnerships underway, as well as recent expansion into Asian markets, it’s worth exploring where the startup emerged from. GeoSpock was founded in 2013 in Cambridge, UK by then-PhD student, Steve Marsh, and CEO of Horizon Discovery Group, Dr Darrin Disley. The duo hoped to design an ‘extreme data’ search engine that could process huge amounts of information that would help contextualize the physical world. The company operates in four main verticals – maritime assets and logistics, telecoms, smart cities, and ‘DataTech’…