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SIMCO Electronics and the expensive art of being right
A factory can lose its rhythm over one overdue measuring tool. SIMCO Electronics combines calibration, repair and cloud software to keep the instruments - and their paperwork - ready for work.
Nuvolo makes the building remember
A desk, a medical device and a leaking refrigerator have something in common: somebody has to know their history. Nuvolo puts that memory to work - and Trane Technologies paid $352.6 million upfront to buy it.
Eleco sold the concrete. It kept the construction site.
The former building-products group now sells the software behind schedules, estimates and maintenance plans. Its next test is keeping those moving parts connected - and knowing which businesses to let go.
Fexa Wants to Stop the Repair Bill Before the Truck Rolls
The dullest software in retail may protect the most interesting line on the P&L. Fexa is turning work orders, refrigerant logs and vendor calls into decisions made before the money is gone.
Accruent Built a $2 Billion Business Out of Everything That Breaks Inside a Building
Most software organizes people or money. Accruent organizes the stubborn physical world - leases, chillers, classrooms, cell towers and the work orders nobody can afford to lose.
The Data Center Software Bet That Begins With a Humbling Question: Is Your Asset List Even Right?
MCIM sells a single source of truth for the physical machinery behind the cloud. Its most persuasive pitch is not artificial intelligence - it is the awkward discovery that expensive facilities often run on dirty data, scattered workflows and heroic memory.
Drea Toretti Markets the Software That Keeps the World From Breaking
After more than 25 years selling software for the machinery behind modern life, TMA Systems' CMO has learned that the unglamorous problems often make the clearest stories.
EZO Turned the Spreadsheet Graveyard Into an Operating System for Everything That Moves
Most companies do not lose expensive gear in dramatic heists. They lose it one stale spreadsheet, unreturned laptop, and mystery storeroom at a time. EZO built a SaaS portfolio for the unglamorous work of knowing what exists - and making sure it keeps earning its keep.
Inside TMA Systems' $68 Million Bet on the Software Nobody Notices Until Something Breaks
The Tulsa software company spent decades organizing work orders. Then outside capital, seven acquisitions and a burst of AI turned a quiet CMMS vendor into a maintenance portfolio serving 3,000-plus organizations.
The paperwork was killing the crew. Connixt handed them an app instead.
A 15-person, self-funded team in Cerritos built the maintenance app that field crews actually open - and got LA Metro, Metrolink and a Canadian grocery giant to trade their clipboards for it.
Why Everyone Is Building the HVAC Chatbot
Five AI-native startups and every major field-service platform are racing to build the same product: an AI assistant that sits in a technician's pocket and answers questions about the air conditioner in front of them. The technicians are a proxy. The real contest is whether a thin AI layer on an underserved dataset can survive once the platform that already owns the customer relationship copies the feature for free. HVAC is the smallest, clearest test of a question every vertical AI founder is asking: does depth beat distribution?
Pairio
Pairio is an AI mobile app that helps factory technicians fix broken machines. A technician speaks into their phone or snaps a photo of a faulty machine, and Pairio searches thousands of pages of OEM manuals and past repair records to return step-by-step fixes on the spot. After each repair, the technician talks through what they did and Pairio structures the learnings into shareable know-how, so institutional knowledge outlives the workers who retire. Founded in 2025 by Tim Zinkl and Matthias Wolf and backed by Y Combinator (P26), Pairio is already cutting repair times by roughly 25% across four manufacturing plants in Germany.
Sidekick
Sidekick is an AI-powered SMS assistant for frontline and deskless workers in manufacturing, auto dealerships, and retail. Workers text questions in any language and get instant answers pulled from their company's own documents - no app, no login, works on any phone. They can send photos of equipment for identification or voice memos when their hands are dirty. When Sidekick cannot answer, it escalates to a manager over SMS and learns from the reply. Founded in 2026 by Justin So and backed by Y Combinator (S26), it is live with 20+ plants and 600+ workers.
Visitt
Visitt is an AI-native commercial real estate property operations platform that consolidates work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, tenant communications, compliance and finance into a single interface. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it serves owners, operators and onsite teams managing office, industrial, multifamily, retail and data-center portfolios. In January 2026 the company raised a $22M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, following a year in which it grew square footage under management by more than 900%.
Itay Oren
Itay Oren is the co-founder and CEO of Visitt, an AI-native property operations platform for commercial real estate. He started the company in 2017 after working in business development for real estate firms in Israel, where he saw first-hand how fragmented and outdated building operations software had become. Under Oren, Visitt has grown to more than 150 customers across 310-plus cities and 10,000 properties, positioning itself as an early mover in embedding AI directly into the day-to-day work of property teams. In January 2026 the company raised a $22 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity to build what Oren calls a single AI interface for CRE operations.
Ideagen EHS
Ideagen EHS is the environmental, health and safety arm of Ideagen, a UK-headquartered governance, risk and compliance software company. Built on technology that includes the acquired DevonWay platform, Ideagen EHS gives manufacturers, energy and nuclear operators, aviation, maritime and government organisations one place to run incident reporting, risk assessment, audits and inspections, environmental compliance, occupational health and industrial hygiene. It layers AI over that data to draft investigations, map regulations and surface risk, aiming to move regulated, high-consequence workplaces from disconnected spreadsheets to continuous, audit-ready compliance.
Brett Robbins
Brett Robbins is the first chief executive of Snapfix, the Dublin-born software company that turns a photo and a QR code into a work order for the world's buildings, hotels, and equipment. Appointed in June 2024 by founders Paul McCarthy and Cathal Greaney, Robbins is a New York-trained operator with a Columbia degree in economics and anthropology and a career spent at the intersection of real estate, retail, and hospitality - including stints at Orchard, StayTerra, Neighborhoods.com, and Ohana Ventures. He believes service businesses should chase 'wow' rather than 'okay,' and that AI's job in maintenance is to quietly make managers' lives easier. Off the clock, he chairs the Economic Development Commission in Norfolk, Connecticut, the small town where a missing home internet connection turned him into a civic builder.
MaintainX
MaintainX is a mobile-first, AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform (CMMS/EAM) used by frontline industrial teams to replace paper work orders, prevent equipment downtime, and run safer, more predictable operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 11,000+ companies and manages over 11 million assets across manufacturing, facilities, food & beverage and distribution.
Chris Turlica
Chris Turlica is the CEO and Co-Founder of MaintainX, a San Francisco-based industrial operations platform that has raised $254M and reached a $2.5B valuation. A McGill commerce graduate who previously built and sold a consumer messaging startup, Turlica spotted a striking data point while at Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners — 80% of the global workforce is deskless, yet only 1% of enterprise software spend serves them. That insight became MaintainX, which now helps over 11,000 companies manage 11M+ assets and has transformed maintenance teams at companies including ABInBev, Duracell, Marriott, and McDonald's.
Nick Haase
Nick Haase is co-founder of MaintainX, the AI-powered CMMS and connected worker platform that reached a $2.5B valuation after its $150M Series D in July 2025. Leading go-to-market strategy, Haase has helped grow MaintainX to 11,000+ enterprise customers across manufacturing, food & beverage, and facilities — while separately angel-investing in 40+ startups including Anduril, Hadrian, and Figure. A former mobile marketing founder turned industrial software builder, he's spent years on factory floors helping maintenance teams ditch paper checklists and embrace digital workflows.