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Scott Reynolds
Scott Reynolds is the co-founder and CEO of UpCodes, a construction-tech company that turned the tangled world of building codes into a searchable, AI-assisted platform used by hundreds of thousands of architects, engineers, and builders. A Syracuse-trained architect who worked at Hassell in Hong Kong and KPF in New York, he teamed with his software-engineer brother Garrett to make code compliance faster and access to the law free. He also led UpCodes through a multi-year copyright fight with the International Code Council, which ended in a fair-use ruling.
Nomic AI
Nomic AI is a New York-based artificial intelligence company building tools to make large, unstructured datasets and AI models understandable and usable by everyone. It is best known for Atlas, a browser-based platform for visualizing and interacting with massive datasets; the open-source Nomic Embed family of text, code, and multimodal embedding models; and GPT4All, an ecosystem for running large language models privately on everyday hardware. Since 2025 the company has focused its platform on the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector, applying its embedding and retrieval technology to drawing review, code compliance, and document-heavy construction workflows.
Snaptrude
Snaptrude is a cloud-based, AI-native design platform for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) teams. It lets architects move from a brief to a BIM-ready model inside one connected, browser-based workspace - handling site analysis, space programming, massing, BIM modeling and presentation while staying interoperable with legacy tools like Revit, Rhino and Archicad. Founded in 2017 by Altaf Ganihar and backed by Foundamental and Accel, Snaptrude positions itself as a modern, collaborative alternative to design software largely built in the late 1990s.
Aditazz, Inc.
Aditazz is a Silicon Valley technology company that borrows the automated, rule-based workflows of semiconductor chip design and applies them to the design and construction of complex buildings. Its SaaS platform captures human engineering and architectural expertise as design rules, then uses algorithms and digital twins to generate, simulate and optimize building layouts before a single wall is built. Founded in 2010 by chip designer Deepak Aatresh and architect Zigmund Rubel, the company first targeted healthcare facilities - winning Kaiser Permanente's 'Small Hospital, Big Idea' competition - and has since applied its methods to hospitals, labs, and other infrastructure across the U.S., China and India.
Point2 Technology
Point2 Technology is a San Jose-based fabless semiconductor company building ultra-low-power, low-latency interconnect chips and cables for AI/ML data centers. Its e-Tube platform sends data as radio-frequency signals through plastic waveguides - a third path between copper and optics - and its smart-retimer SoCs power 800G and 1.6T active electrical cables. Founded in 2016 by a KAIST professor and veterans of Marvell, Finisar and Samsung, the company has drawn investment from NVIDIA's NVentures, Bosch Ventures, Molex and UMC.
UpCodes
UpCodes is a software company that turns the sprawling, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction world of U.S. building codes into a single searchable, always-current platform. Founded in 2016 by brothers Scott and Garrett Reynolds, it hosts more than 5 million code sections across 1,700+ state and city codes and roughly 160,000 local amendments, updated thousands of times a month. Architects, engineers, and contractors use it to look up requirements, collaborate on compliance, and - since 2023 - ask questions of Copilot, an AI research assistant fenced into the codes that actually apply to a given project and permit year.
Pirros
Pirros is an AI-powered content intelligence platform for architecture and engineering firms that lets designers find, compare, reuse and standardize Revit details and families across every project, team and office. Founded by former structural engineers Ari Baranian and Peter Johann, the Los Angeles company automatically ingests a firm's historical drawing sets and makes them searchable by geometry - no manual tagging - so designers stop digging through cluttered server folders and start reusing vetted work. Often described as 'GitHub for construction,' Pirros integrates directly with Revit and Autodesk ACC/BIM 360 and serves over 300 firms and 15,000+ users.
Structured AI
Structured AI builds an AI workforce for construction design engineering. Its computer-vision platform reviews technical drawings and construction documents the way spell-check reviews text - flagging code violations, cross-discipline clashes, and compliance gaps while leaving final calls to humans. Founded in 2025 by Oxford graduates and backed by Y Combinator, the New York company sells QA/QC automation to architecture, engineering, and construction firms.
TwinKnowledge
TwinKnowledge is a New York-based AI company building custom copilots for the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry. Its platform connects to a firm's structured and unstructured data across 30+ tools and document repositories, then trains project-specific or company-wide AI agents that analyze construction documents, drawings, submittals and RFIs. The goal: catch scope conflicts and non-compliant designs before they become expensive rework, answer RFIs in seconds instead of days, and stop the institutional knowledge that walks out the door with every retiring engineer.
Ari Baranian
Ari Baranian is the co-founder and CEO of Pirros (YC W23), a Los Angeles startup building a detail management platform for architects and structural engineers. A structural engineer turned software builder, he created Pirros to solve a problem he lived daily at his old firm: engineers constantly recreating the same construction details from scratch. Pirros integrates with Revit, automatically extracts and catalogs details with their metadata, and makes a firm's institutional knowledge searchable and reusable. The company is profitable, reached roughly $6M ARR with 300+ firms on the platform, and closed a Series A reported around $15-17M in 2025.
Raymond Zhao
Raymond Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Structured AI, a Y Combinator (Fall 2025) startup building an AI workforce for construction design engineering. A 23-year-old Oxford maths and statistics graduate and former Goldman Sachs quant intern, he walked away from a coveted finance career to build AI agents that automatically review engineering drawings and catch costly errors before they reach a job site. The company raised roughly $1M in pre-seed and a $4.2M seed round, and counts firms like Syska Hennessy Group among its customers.
TEECOM
TEECOM is a technology planning, design, and engineering firm that makes technology work in buildings. Founded in 1997 and led by founder David Marks, the remote-first company partners with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams to design the unseen layer of modern buildings - structured cabling, networks, audiovisual, acoustics, security, wireless, distributed antenna systems, and emergency responder radio. With 150-plus engineers, designers, and subject-matter experts, TEECOM has delivered integrated technology systems across more than 28 countries for clients like Salesforce.
Monograph
Monograph is a San Francisco-based software company that builds cloud practice-operations software for architecture and engineering firms. Its platform replaces spreadsheets with real-time tools for project budgets, staffing, time tracking, invoicing and profitability forecasting, giving design professionals live financial visibility into their work. Founded in 2019 by three architectural designers, Monograph serves thousands of A/E firms and has helped manage hundreds of millions of dollars in projects.
Motif
Motif is a browser-based, AI-powered design workspace built for architects and the broader AEC industry. Founded by former Autodesk leaders Amar Hanspal and Brian Mathews, it streams live BIM models from Revit and Rhino into a collaborative cloud canvas, layers in architecture-tuned AI rendering, and aims to replace the file-shuffling that defines most building design today.
David Marks
David Marks is the founder, President, and CEO of TEECOM, a California-based technology design and engineering firm he built from a one-man operation into a 200+ person global consultancy over nearly three decades. Starting at the Moscone Convention Center expansion in San Francisco, he has since shaped the technology infrastructure of hospitals, Fortune 500 offices, universities, and civic institutions across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC. A licensed Professional Engineer with credentials in communications distribution, design technology, and LEED, Marks is known for his belief that buildings should work as hard as the people inside them - and that the best technology is the kind you never notice.
Michael DeLacey
Michael DeLacey is the US CEO of Symetri, the global AECO and manufacturing technology consultancy he helped build from a two-person New England Autodesk reseller in 1994 into a 500-person organization spanning the US and Europe. As co-founder of Microdesk — which Symetri acquired in 2022 and rebranded in 2023 — DeLacey has spent three decades embedding building information modeling, enterprise asset management, and cloud-based digital workflows into the design, construction, and operations practices of architects, engineers, and manufacturers. His conviction: teach people to fish, not fish for them.
Amar Hanspal
Amar Hanspal is the co-founder and CEO of Motif, a cloud-native AI-first design collaboration platform challenging Autodesk's Revit dominance in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industry. A veteran of three decades in design software, he previously served as Co-CEO of Autodesk - where he helped triple the company's market cap from $8B to $24B - and as founding CEO of robotics startup Bright Machines. With Motif, backed by $46M from CapitalG and Redpoint Ventures and named to Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups list for 2025, Hanspal is building what he describes as 'Figma for architects': a browser-based, real-time collaborative workspace for the world's built environment.