The Clemson-born startup found a practical way into the climate-software market: make scattered building data useful to the people paying the utility bills. Now it is testing whether one dashboard can stretch from boiler rooms to boardrooms.
Landlords do not lack net-zero promises. They lack clean energy data and a sane way to decide which boiler, roof or lease problem to tackle first. arbnco built that decision layer - and in July 2026, IMSERV bought the missing piece between the meter and the retrofit plan.
The Denver proptech company connects old controls, new sensors and portfolio software in one operational layer. Its useful lesson is wonderfully unglamorous: before a building can become intelligent, someone has to make its data trustworthy.
Most smart-building software stops at the alert. CIM’s PEAK platform follows the problem from noisy sensor data to diagnosis, assignment and proof of repair - giving property teams a practical route to lower bills, fewer breakdowns and better-performing buildings.
Cortex Building Intelligence (now branded Cortex Sustainability Intelligence) is a New York and Nashville based proptech company that uses machine learning to help commercial real estate owners cut energy waste and carbon emissions. Founded in 2014 by Bryan Bennett, its energy insights platform turns raw building data into specific operational moves, helping office portfolios like Empire State Realty Trust, Silverstein Properties, Savanna, and RXR lower costs and meet decarbonization mandates such as NYC's Local Law 97.