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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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.