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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.
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.