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Arellano Associates and the business of being heard
A railway needs engineering. Its public meetings need engineering, too. Arellano Associates turns maps, text messages and neighborhood conversations into the working machinery of community engagement.
Michael Mehlhorn Turned a Camera-Eye Into a Common Operating Picture
From a 2010 demo reel to emergency maps used across 46 states, Michael Mehlhorn has built a career around one stubborn idea: information matters only when people can actually use it.
Locus Technologies
Locus Technologies is a Silicon Valley software company that pioneered cloud-based environmental, health & safety (EHS), ESG, and water management software. Founded in 1997 by Dr. Neno Duplan, Locus deployed what it describes as the first commercial Software-as-a-Service product for environmental information management in 1999. Today its multi-tenant platform runs a suite of 30+ configurable apps that help regulated enterprises and water utilities manage air, water, waste, energy, emissions, and compliance data - reportedly more than half a billion environmental records - from a single system of record.
Timothy Cocaro
Timothy Cocaro is the founder and CEO of Canibuild, an AI-powered instant site feasibility platform that lets builders and homeowners check in seconds whether a house, granny flat, pool or shed can go on a block of land - collapsing weeks of surveying, drafting and estimating into a single click. A builder by trade with a computer science degree from the University of Sydney, Cocaro spent two decades running RESCON Builders, Australia's largest dedicated granny-flat company, before turning his own construction frustrations into software in 2019. Canibuild raised an AUD 8 million Series A led by EVP in 2022, grew to thousands of daily users across Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and was named #1 in Real Estate at the Google Maps Platform Awards 2025.
Tolemi
Tolemi is a Boston-based govtech company whose flagship platform, BuildingBlocks, stitches together scattered municipal data - property records, ownership, code violations, tax liens - into a single map-based interface. State and local governments use it to run spatial analysis, spot problem properties, and make faster, data-driven decisions about housing, land use, and neighborhood revitalization. Formerly OpportunitySpace, the company rebranded to Tolemi after Y Combinator and today serves cities from New York to small towns across the U.S.