We are proud to back Alex and the team at Mach9 as they scale their incredible AI-powered mapping platform. Their tech is helping critical infrastructure leaders make maps faster than ever before, making complex infrastructure projects more efficient and precise. Onwards!
Co-Founder + CEO @ Mach9 / Prev @ CMU Robotics Institute, NASA, SpaceX, Google[X]
We started Mach9 to enable computers understand the physical world in a superhuman way. Just two years ago, we were a small team of friends developing laser scanning hardware and made the hard decision to pivot the entire company. We found that interpreting massive and complex LiDAR and imagery data was a huge challenge and recognized the need to create the world’s Digital Surveyor—a software platform to address the infrastructure industry’s need for fast, high fidelity, and accurate digital maps at scale—and it’s working. Today, many leading infrastructure engineering firms and owners are using Mach9 to make maps faster than ever before and at unimaginable accuracy and scale--spanning entire states and subcontinents. Our team, customers, and industry partners see the huge opportunity in automating time-intensive map production workflows and we're not alone... I am so excited to announce Mach9’s $12mm Series Seed led by Quiet Capital (Michael Bloch, Matt Humphrey), followed by new and existing investors including Overmatch Ventures (Evan Loomis), Kyle Vogt (founder of Cruise), Amar Hanspal (former CEO of Autodesk), Scott Belsky (CPO of Adobe), Gokul Rajaram (former executive at DoorDash), Flexcap Ventures (Andrew Vigneault), Terrence Rohan and Badrul Farooqi (early Figma). First, thank you to the entire Mach9 team for your dedication, creativity, vision, and partnership. We made it through a major pivot and launched a first-of-it’s kind GeoAI product in record time, defying expectations. I couldn’t be more proud of you all and the love and care you put into everything you do—it’s what makes Digital Surveyor the product it is and it shows. Thank you to my co-founders: Haowen Shi, Zachary Sussman, and Michael M.. I'm so glad that we were able to take this awesome journey together and so proud of what we've been able to accomplish and look forward to everything yet to come. I’d like to personally thank our early Digital Surveyor customers and partners for their continuous help and support. We’re excited to invest this new capital into accelerating our product development and pushing the boundaries of AI-powered geospatial production technology together. The team and I are laser focused on helping you accomplish your mission and making maps to build, maintain, and protect critical infrastructure systems around the world. Thank you Aria Alamalhodaei and TechCrunch for helping us share the exciting news available at https://lnkd.in/eHDU6ADt. We’re scaling a world-class engineering and commercial organization based in San Francisco, CA to map millions of miles in the next few years and keep up with the demand. If you’re interested in building the next generation of geospatial AI software, check out our 12 new job postings at the link in the comments. Here’s to the future of mapping!