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Billy Gilmartin and the trouble with knowing
He built a business cleaning America’s largest sewer pipes. At SewerAI, Billy Gilmartin is working on the distance between spotting a problem underground and getting someone to fix it.
Greg Bentley and the art of letting go
He joined his brothers after building a software business of his own. Three decades later, Greg Bentley helped take their company public, then made room for a CEO whose surname was not Bentley.
The Roadwork That Lost 85% of Its Schedule
An Auckland street was scheduled for 61 days of traffic management. With better evidence about the road around it, the team compressed the job into two weekends and three nights - a useful clue to what Mooven actually sells.
Progress Software’s $1.3 Billion Bet: Boring Software Still Runs the World
Progress keeps buying the unglamorous tools companies cannot casually rip out. The result is a profitable software cabinet - and a live test of whether disciplined consolidation can outrun integration risk and the damage from one very public security failure.
Mariano Lisiotti Is Turning Fieldwork Into Software
After years of managing telecommunications projects across South America, the Argentine engineer built Sytex to replace scattered spreadsheets, photos, and reports with one shared operating layer for the field.
George White Put the Construction Notebook on Notice
A mechanical engineer went into the field, listened to inspectors and built a company around a stubborn idea: the record of a public works project should be as modern as the project itself.
HeadLight Is Turning $20 Billion of Infrastructure Work Into a Searchable Memory
Road projects generate mountains of evidence and still lose the one photo that matters. HeadLight’s field-first software turns jobsite observations into a live, defensible record - but its value depends on disciplined adoption, integration and trust.
Battery Ventures Plays Every Stage of the Technology Stack
The 43-year-old investor combines venture capital, growth equity and buyouts under one technology thesis. Its newest $3.25 billion fund is a test of whether stage flexibility matters more than category fashion.
The Firm That Bets on Founders Who Never Took a Dime
For 22 years, Mainsail Partners has written checks to software founders who bankrolled their own companies - then handed them an operating team instead of a lecture.
Bentley Systems
Five brothers, one CAD engine, and four decades later the software running underneath much of the world's roads, rail, and water networks - now being rebuilt around digital twins and infrastructure AI.
Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is one of the world's largest semiconductor and infrastructure-software companies, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Led by President and CEO Hock Tan since 2006, it designs custom AI accelerators, Ethernet switching and routing silicon, wireless and broadband chips, and optical components, while also running a large enterprise-software business anchored by VMware, Symantec, CA and Brocade. Its products connect and power much of the modern internet, from smartphones and set-top boxes to the hyperscale data centers training today's largest AI models.
MemVerge
MemVerge is a Milpitas, California AI infrastructure software company that started out virtualizing DRAM and persistent memory into pooled 'Big Memory' and has since pivoted toward the AI era. Its Memory Machine products maximize GPU utilization through memory tiering, pooling and transparent checkpointing, and in 2025 it launched MemMachine, an open-source AI memory layer that gives LLMs and agents persistent episodic, profile and procedural memory across sessions, models and clouds. Founded in 2017 by CEO Charles Fan, CTO Yue Li and chairman Shuki Bruck, the company has raised about $43.5M from investors including Intel Capital, Cisco, NetApp, SK hynix and Lightspeed.
OpenClovis
OpenClovis is a Petaluma, California infrastructure-software company that builds SAFplus, a carrier-grade high-availability middleware platform for telecom, networking, and defense equipment. Its libraries, GUI tools, and code generators let engineers design multi-node clustered applications with sub-second fault detection and failover, targeting the 99.999% (five-nines) uptime demanded by network operators. Founded in 2002 and offered under a dual open-source (GPL) and commercial license, SAFplus has been used in deployments by companies including Sonus, HP, Ericsson, NASA, and Lockheed Martin.
Dharmesh Thakker
Dharmesh Thakker is a General Partner at Battery Ventures, one of the world's longest-running technology venture capital firms, where he leads investments in infrastructure software, AI-powered applications, cloud/DevOps, data, security, and open source. An immigrant from India turned engineer turned VC, he joined Battery in 2015 after leading Intel Capital's global cloud and big-data practice. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from UT Austin and an MBA from Wharton. His portfolio spans category-defining companies including Databricks, Postman, Gong, ClickHouse, and Weaviate, with notable exits including Confluent (IPO), JFrog (IPO), and Sumo Logic (IPO). He hosts the 'Billion-Dollar B2B' podcast, writes for TechCrunch and Forbes, and was named to the Forbes Midas Brink list in 2016.
Fred Wang
Fred Wang is a General Partner at Adams Street Partners, where he leads growth equity investments in infrastructure software — with a sharp focus on cybersecurity, data/AI infrastructure, and enterprise security. With over 30 years in technology and venture capital, he joined Adams Street in 2017 after 18 years as a General Partner at Trinity Ventures. Earlier in his career, he was one of the first engineers and first product manager at Intuit. He holds degrees from Stanford (BS Electrical Engineering, MS Industrial Engineering) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His active portfolio includes Arctic Wolf Networks, Cyberhaven, Arize AI, and Axonius.