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The 3-Week Fix for Mining's 10-Week Talent Problem
Peter Lucas built a 60-plus-person industrial project firm around an unglamorous promise: get the right specialist into the owner's team fast, then keep the knowledge from walking out the door.
WakeCap
WakeCap is a construction-technology company that puts a small IoT sensor into standard safety helmets to give project owners live, site-wide visibility into workforce, safety, productivity and progress. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Hassan Albalawi and Ishita Sood, the company runs a wireless mesh network that works without GPS, cellular or Wi-Fi and feeds field data into a single owner's dashboard. Its technology has been deployed across roughly $80 billion of active projects - including Aramco, NEOM, Qiddiya and King Salman Park - and has tracked more than 150 million labor hours. WakeCap raised a $28M Series A in 2025 and operates from Riyadh, Dubai and San Francisco.
Doxel
Doxel is a Menlo Park-based construction technology company that uses computer vision and AI to automatically track what is actually being built on large, complex job sites. By turning 360-degree camera footage, drone imagery and LiDAR scans into objective progress data and comparing it against the schedule, budget and BIM model, Doxel gives owners and general contractors early warning on cost and schedule risk - often described as a 'Waze for construction.' It has tracked billions of square feet of work for Fortune 500 customers including Kaiser Permanente, Shell, HCA and major data center developers.