facilities-management
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The Company Behind 80 Million Lunches - and Almost Everything Around Them
Sodexo does not sell lunch so much as certainty. Across 43 countries, it turns meals, maintenance, cleaning, energy and hospitality into one repeatable service - the quiet machinery behind 80 million daily experiences.
CBRE Is Quietly Becoming the Operating System for the Physical Economy
The world’s largest commercial real estate services company is turning brokerage relationships into a sprawling, data-rich machine for running buildings, projects and capital. Its real product is continuity - from choosing a site to keeping the lights on.
Cushman & Wakefield
A 108-year-old brokerage that started managing Manhattan skyscrapers now moves $9.4 billion of real estate advice a year - and quietly runs the buildings you work in.
Occuspace
Occuspace is a smart-building company that measures how physical spaces are actually used. Its plug-in sensors passively read ambient Bluetooth and WiFi signals - never cameras or personal data - to estimate real-time occupancy, foot traffic and dwell time, then feed the numbers into a dashboard and the free Waitz app. Founded in 2017 by three UC San Diego roommates, it now serves 100+ university campuses plus corporate and federal customers, helping them cut wasted space, save energy and plan facilities from data instead of guesswork.
Veyor
Veyor is a cloud-based construction logistics platform - often called the 'Uber Eats of construction' - that digitizes how large building sites and facilities schedule deliveries, coordinate materials, manage loading docks and enforce site access and compliance. Founded in Sydney in 2017 and now expanding across the United States from Austin, Veyor connects contractors, suppliers, drivers and facility managers on a single live schedule to cut congestion, wait times and paperwork on complex projects.
Kadence
Kadence is a workplace operations ("WorkOps") software platform that helps enterprises coordinate people, time and space across hybrid and distributed teams. Born from the pandemic-era pivot of wireless-charging startup Chargifi, the San Francisco- and London-based company unifies desk and room booking, visitor management, team scheduling, occupancy analytics and AI-powered coordination into one platform. Kadence is used by more than 10,000 teams across 40+ countries, including Boeing, Ashurst and BDO, and raised a $20M Series A in 2025 led by High Alpha.
Snapfix
Snapfix is a Dublin-founded, photo-first maintenance and operations platform that turns messy building management into a stream of simple photos, tags, messages, and red-yellow-green traffic lights. Built for hotels, facilities, universities, and manufacturing sites, it lets frontline teams raise a work order by snapping a photo or scanning a QR code, then track it to completion at a glance. Founded in 2019 by software engineer and property manager Paul McCarthy, Snapfix counts Hilton, Marriott, Radisson, OCS, and DHL among its users and has raised roughly $3.76M-$4.76M in funding on a mission to become the maintenance platform for the world.
RSC (Robert Stephen Consulting)
RSC (Robert Stephen Consulting LLC) is a San Ramon, California consulting firm that helps large organizations run their buildings like data. Founded in 2000 by Bob Stephen, RSC implements Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) and Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) software - notably Archibus - and bridges it with Esri GIS mapping through its REALS platform. It serves Fortune 500 companies, government, healthcare, education, energy and manufacturing clients on everything from space planning and chargeback analysis to lease and asset tracking. In October 2024 RSC was acquired by Langan Engineering & Environmental Services to power Langan's growing digital solutions practice.
Xyicon
Xyicon is a Napa, California cloud platform that lets teams 'think outside the spreadsheet' by merging spreadsheet data with PDF and CAD diagrams. Founded in 2000 by Jason Chavez, its SpaceRunner application turns floor plans, elevations and Revit drawings into interactive maps where every asset, room and piece of equipment becomes a data-rich 'Xyicon' you can see, track and report on. It is used across facilities management, capital construction programs, and healthcare facility planning to cut procurement costs, shorten timelines and reduce data errors.
Vendoroo
Vendoroo is an AI-powered property maintenance coordination platform that automates the full lifecycle of maintenance work orders for property managers. By combining AI triage, vendor management, and workflow automation, Vendoroo eliminates up to 95% of manual maintenance coordination tasks, enabling property managers to handle more units with less staff. Their platform includes a 24/7 AI virtual front desk, automated work order routing and vendor scheduling, and deep integrations with leading property management systems like Rent Manager and Rentvine.