Telenav

aid: telenav
name: Telenav
description: Telenav is a connected-car and location-based services company that powers in-vehicle navigation (VIVID NAV),
  infotainment (VIVID IVI), and in-car commerce (VIVID COMMERCE) for automotive partners including Daimler, Ford, GM, Toyota,
  and Xpeng. Its developer surface centers on the Entity Service REST API for location-aware semantic search, auto-suggest
  predictions, entity detail lookup, and discovery including EV charge-station search, alongside partner-distributed navigation
  and driver-intelligence SDKs documented at docs.telenav.com and open-source Java tooling on Maven Central.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/telenav/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3743554?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- menlo-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: local-v1
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Mapping
- Navigation
- Location
- Search
- Automotive
- Connected Cars
- EV Charging
- Points of Interest
apis:
- name: Telenav Entity Service REST API
  description: Location-based semantic search for the connected car - onebox search with category, brand, corridor, polygon,
    and bounding-box filters, reverse geocoding, EV charge-station search, auto-suggest and word prediction, entity detail
    lookup (batch supported), and discovery of places, brands, and categories. JSON over REST, versioned under /v5/, authenticated
    with a Telenav-assigned API key plus per-request SHA-256 signature. API hosts are provisioned per automotive partner and
    are not published publicly (docs reference a {host} placeholder).
  humanURL: https://docs.telenav.com/overview/entity-rest.html
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.telenav.com/overview/entity-rest.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.telenav.com/entity-rest/common.html
  tags:
  - Search
  - Location
  - Points of Interest
  - EV Charging
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.telenav.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.telenav.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.telenav.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.telenav.com/api-references/sdk/entity/current/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.telenav.com/entity-android/install-sdk.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.telenav.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.telenav.com/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.telenav.com/legal/policies-privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.telenav.com/legal
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Telenav
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/telenav-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/telenav-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/telenav-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/telenav-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/telenav-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/telenav-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/telenav-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/telenav-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/telenav-packages.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/telenav-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/telenav-webhooks.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/telenav-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/telenav-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/telenav-llms.txt