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Tom Yeshurun
Tom Yeshurun is the co-founder and CEO of Civ Robotics, a San Francisco construction-technology company building autonomous robots that automate land surveying and site layout. A civil engineer by training who managed a $100 million road project in Israel before founding the company, Yeshurun watched surveyors spend millions marking coordinates by hand in desert heat and set out to automate the task. Civ Robotics' CivDot robots now stake out survey points with roughly 8-millimeter accuracy and mark up to 3,000 points a day, and its technology has been deployed on solar projects representing more than 20 gigawatts of capacity. In July 2025 the company raised a $7.5 million Series A led by AlleyCorp.
Dusty Robotics
Dusty Robotics builds the FieldPrinter, an autonomous mobile robot that prints full-scale building layouts directly onto construction floors from BIM models. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, it replaces a painstaking, error-prone manual chalk-and-tape process used by general contractors to mark where every wall, conduit, and bolt must land.