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Christian Sanz Built a Map That Could Keep Up With the Ground
He began with homemade drones, free construction-site maps, and a question about what a flying camera could make newly visible. Thirteen years later, Skycatch became part of Caterpillar - proof that the useful product was never the aircraft, but a faster version of reality.
Victoria Morrissey
Across Grainger, Caterpillar and Ferguson, Victoria Morrissey made industrial marketing feel human by listening first. Retirement has brought her back to Chicago, where customer advocacy is becoming community service.
Skycatch
Skycatch is a San Francisco drone-data company that turns aerial imagery into centimeter-accurate 3D and 4D models of mines, construction sites, and energy facilities. Founded in 2013 by Christian Sanz and Christopher Bumgardner, it pairs custom DJI-built drones and on-site edge computers with a cloud photogrammetry engine and AI to give industrial operators near-real-time maps of the physical world. Backed by Google Ventures, Komatsu, Autodesk, and others, Skycatch was acquired by Caterpillar in July 2026 to strengthen its data-driven mining technology portfolio.