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Arjun Mohan and the Machinery That Learned to Speak
A family detour brought Arjun Mohan back to Dubai. In a yard full of idle machines, he found the argument that would become TENDERD: heavy industry did not need more equipment so much as a better way to understand what it already owned.
Adam Livesay Is Giving Heavy Machines a Service Desk
The Elevāt co-founder spent years listening to machines and the people who repair them. Now, with a $12 million Series A and Europe in view, he is turning industrial data into something a technician can actually use.
Boris Sofman Is Teaching Machines to Build the World
After giving toy robots personality and self-driving trucks judgment, Boris Sofman has chosen a harder canvas: the ground beneath our feet. His latest company, Bedrock Robotics, is betting that construction's bottleneck can be loosened one retrofitted excavator at a time.
Tom Eliaz
Tom Eliaz is the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Bedrock Robotics, a San Francisco-based startup building autonomous systems for heavy construction equipment. With over two decades of software engineering leadership spanning robotics, cloud infrastructure, and AI, he previously led 100+ engineers at Twilio Engage, directed engineering at Segment through its $3.2B acquisition, and was an early cloud platform engineer at Anki. Before Bedrock, he also founded a healthcare technology company. At Bedrock - a $1.75B-valued company that raised $270M in Series B funding in February 2026 - Eliaz applies engineering depth to the problem of retrofitting excavators and heavy machinery with LiDAR, GPS, and AI software to run autonomously on construction sites 24/7.