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Bryce Jones
Bryce Jones is the CEO and co-founder of Flash Forest, a Toronto-based cleantech startup that uses autonomous drones, AI, GIS mapping and biodegradable seed pods to replant forests faster and more cheaply than traditional hand-planting. A former tree planter and biology graduate from British Columbia, Jones launched Flash Forest in 2019 after seeing how far reforestation methods lagged behind industrial logging technology. The company's stated goal is to plant one billion trees by 2028, with a focus on land that is unsafe or uneconomical for human crews, including post-wildfire terrain.
4M Analytics
4M Analytics is an AI-powered utility mapping company that compiles millions of scattered public utility records, satellite imagery, and legacy blueprints into a single continuously updated digital map of what lies above and below ground. Its Utility AI Platform gives civil engineers, contractors, and departments of transportation instant, verifiable subsurface data to plan safer, faster infrastructure projects and avoid costly excavation strikes.
AI Clearing
AI Clearing is an Austin- and Warsaw-based construction technology company that turns drone imagery and site data into automated progress tracking, quality control, and field intelligence for large infrastructure projects. Its AI-native platform ingests drone flights, CAD/BIM designs, schedules, and mobile field data into a single source of truth, delivering analyzed progress reports typically within hours rather than weeks. Serving contractors, asset owners, and lenders on utility-scale solar, energy transmission, roads, railways, and earthworks, the company raised a $14M Series A in 2023 and was the first technology firm in the world to certify its AI management system against ISO 42001.
Continuum Industries
Continuum Industries is an infrastructure-technology company behind Optioneer, an AI-powered platform that helps utilities, developers and engineers plan large linear infrastructure - power lines, cables, water networks and pipelines. Optioneer analyses geospatial data and tests millions of routing alternatives against environmental, social, cost and technical criteria, producing a shortlist of viable options in hours rather than months. Founded in 2018 and headquartered across Edinburgh, London and New York, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 to accelerate the build-out of grid and water infrastructure needed for the energy transition.
Flash Forest
Flash Forest is a Toronto-based reforestation company that uses drones, proprietary biological seed pods, aerial mapping, and machine learning to replant forests faster and cheaper than traditional hand-planting. Founded in 2019, it deploys aerial and ground-based systems to restore land degraded by wildfire and logging, and pairs planting with a forestry intelligence service that surveys and monitors forests. The company has planted more than 3 million trees and aims to reach one billion by 2028.
Sitetracker
Sitetracker is a cloud software company that helps owners and operators of critical infrastructure - telecom towers, fiber and wireless networks, EV chargers, renewable energy sites, utility grids and data centers - plan, build, operate and maintain their assets from a single system of record. Built on the Salesforce platform, its asset lifecycle and deployment operations management software is used by roughly 300 organizations worldwide, including BT, Ericsson, AT&T, Vodafone, Southern Company, RWE, Engie and EVgo, to manage millions of sites and projects representing more than $25 billion in portfolio holdings.
GeoX
GeoX is an Israeli-founded geospatial AI company that turns aerial imagery, satellite data and ground-level images into detailed 3D models of individual buildings. Insurers, reinsurers, banks and public agencies use its property database - covering roughly 160 million US properties and expanding across Europe, Japan and Australia - to assess roof condition, elevation and exposure to fires, floods and storms without sending anyone into the field. The company raised a $19M Series A in 2024 (led by Flashpoint), bringing total funding to $23M.
CivilGrid
CivilGrid is a San Francisco construction-intelligence company that centralizes utility, environmental, geotechnical and land-rights data into a single collaborative platform - often called 'Google Maps for pre-construction.' Founded in 2021 by Wharton classmates Josh Mackanic and Brandon Cohen, it partners with utilities and agencies to pull current GIS datasets so engineers and construction teams can scope, plan and de-risk projects before anyone breaks ground, cutting pre-construction research time by up to 90%.
Mapistry
Mapistry is a Berkeley-founded B2B software company that helps industrial facilities manage environmental compliance for air, stormwater, wastewater, SPCC, and waste requirements. Its platform replaces spreadsheets and paper binders with automated data collection, mobile inspections, a compliance calendar, site-map building, and real-time analytics - plus an AI feature, Maple, that takes routine data entry off environmental managers' plates. Started by Allie and Ryan Janoch, the company pairs its software with hands-on environmental expertise and serves 2,000+ facilities across dozens of manufacturers.
Blumen Systems
Blumen Systems is a San Francisco software company building an AI-powered operating system for infrastructure permitting and environmental diligence. It fuses 2,000+ geospatial datasets, a nationwide database of local zoning and permitting rules across 3,200+ jurisdictions, and a decade of historic permit outcomes to flag fatal flaws and regulatory risk on energy and infrastructure sites in days instead of months. In 2025 its tools were used to evaluate roughly 60 GW of solar, battery, gas, and data-center projects.
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.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is a Philadelphia-based cloud mapping and data analytics platform that lets anyone build custom maps, reports, and dashboards from more than 75,000 curated indicators drawn from 170-plus public and proprietary sources - no GIS expertise required. Spun out of the Reinvestment Fund, it serves banks, universities, hospitals, governments, and nonprofits that need to turn place-based data into decisions about housing, health, lending, and community investment.
Maggie McCullough
Maggie McCullough is the CEO and founder of PolicyMap, the Philadelphia-based mapping and data-visualization platform she launched in 2008. A former White House budget-office staffer turned housing researcher, she built PolicyMap after struggling to fit maps and data into her own policy work, betting that anyone should be able to make a map as easily as they shop online. The platform now serves universities, banks, health systems, nonprofits and governments, layering thousands of public and proprietary datasets into one searchable map. In December 2023 the company closed a $3 million Series A led by its former parent, the Reinvestment Fund.
SewerAI
SewerAI is a Walnut Creek, California software company building AI for the people who keep the sewers running. Its Pioneer cloud platform and AutoCode computer vision tools help cities, utilities, engineers, and contractors inspect, code, and prioritize sewer pipe defects faster and more accurately than manual review.
Neno Duplan
Neno Duplan is the founder and CEO of Locus Technologies, a Mountain View-based company he bootstrapped in 1997 to become one of the world's first cloud-based environmental, health, and safety (EHS) software providers. Born in Croatia and trained as a civil engineer, Duplan earned his Ph.D. at the University of Zagreb, an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon, and advanced management training at Stanford. He pioneered the commercial SaaS model for environmental data management - deploying the world's first such product in 1999 - and has spent nearly three decades helping governments, utilities, and corporations track, manage, and report their environmental footprints. With more than 30 technical papers published, 11,000+ active users, and a 98% customer renewal rate, Duplan has built Locus into a durable, self-funded software company at the intersection of environmental science and enterprise technology.