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The Firm That Remodels America 3,000 Stores at a Time
McDonald's, Starbucks and Walgreens don't remodel one store at a time - they hire a Downers Grove firm run by a former Green Beret to do thousands at once, on schedule, on brand.
The Startup That Turns Drone Photos of Cell Towers Into Money
Anne Zink built a company that lets you inspect a 300-foot cell tower without climbing it. The trick isn't the drone - it's what happens to the pictures after they land.
PlanRadar
PlanRadar is a Vienna-based SaaS platform that digitizes construction and real estate project management. Its mobile and web apps let site teams pin defect and task tickets directly onto digital plans and BIM models, capture photos, video and voice notes, assign work, and generate reports - replacing paper checklists and scattered spreadsheets. Founded in 2013, it serves more than 170,000 users across 75+ countries.
SiteSee
SiteSee is a Brisbane-founded software company that builds AI-powered digital twins of telecommunications infrastructure. By combining drone capture, photogrammetry and machine-learning audit engines, it turns survey-grade imagery of cell towers and rooftops into interactive 3D models that tower companies and mobile network operators can inspect, measure and upgrade from a desk - cutting site visits, speeding colocation approvals and helping owners get more value from their assets.
Trendspek
Trendspek is a Sydney-based software company that turns drone and reality-capture imagery into exact 3D digital models of buildings and infrastructure. Its Structural Lifecycle Management System (SLMS), built on the Precision Asset Intelligence (PAI) platform, lets asset owners, engineers and contractors inspect, measure, report on, remediate and monitor structures from a single living record - replacing scattered PDFs and site visits with traceable, measurable digital evidence used across 45+ countries.
AI Clearing
AI Clearing is an Austin- and Warsaw-based construction technology company that turns drone imagery and site data into automated progress tracking, quality control, and field intelligence for large infrastructure projects. Its AI-native platform ingests drone flights, CAD/BIM designs, schedules, and mobile field data into a single source of truth, delivering analyzed progress reports typically within hours rather than weeks. Serving contractors, asset owners, and lenders on utility-scale solar, energy transmission, roads, railways, and earthworks, the company raised a $14M Series A in 2023 and was the first technology firm in the world to certify its AI management system against ISO 42001.
Scanifly
Scanifly is a New Jersey-based B2B software company that helps solar contractors design and survey photovoltaic systems using drone imagery, photogrammetry, and AI. Its cloud platform turns a five-minute drone flight or remote satellite/LiDAR data into a to-scale 3D model accurate to within 1-3 inches, then generates layouts, shading reports, and permit-ready plan sets. Contractors use it from pre-sale proposals through post-sale final design to cut survey and design time by as much as 90% and reduce costly change orders on install day.
Integrated Projects
Integrated Projects is a New York-based building-intelligence company that turns any physical building into accurate as-built digital plans. Through its IPX platform, it pairs LiDAR reality-capture (SCANIT) with machine-learning-driven point-cloud-to-BIM conversion (BIMIT) to produce standardized LOD200-LOD300 BIM and CAD files that owners, architects, engineers and contractors can view, query, measure and share in a browser. The company's pitch is simple: before you can renovate what a building should be, you have to accurately document what it is.
Treasury
Treasury is a San Francisco startup building a registry and discovery system for the world's most valuable spatial assets - architecture, film sets, real estate, monuments, experiential art and nature scans. Co-founded with Zaha Hadid Architects and Spaceform, it protects and distributes the work of spatial creators in the age of spatial computing and generative AI, letting builders license premium 3D environments while letting creators fingerprint their work, track licensed use, and get paid for the 'design DNA' that trains the next generation of AI.
James Brown
James Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Schemata, a San Francisco startup building an AI-powered spatial intelligence platform that turns ordinary 2D imagery into photorealistic 3D environments with a built-in AI instructor. A former US Marine Corps infantry and information operations officer who once briefed the Secretary of the Navy, he was the first in his family to earn a college degree, went on to a Stanford MBA and MS in Symbolic Systems, and now sells rapid-deployment virtual training to defense, energy, and infrastructure customers. Schemata emerged from stealth in May 2025 with a $5M seed round led by Owl Ventures and $3.4M in early Department of Defense contracts.
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.
OpenSpace
OpenSpace is a San Francisco-based construction technology company that turns 360-degree video walks of jobsites into AI-powered, navigable visual records pinned to floor plans. Its software stitches site captures into a Google Street View-style digital twin so general contractors can see every corner of a build, track progress, resolve disputes, and coordinate with BIM - without flying anyone to the site.
Jeevan Kalanithi
Jeevan Kalanithi is the co-founder and CEO of OpenSpace, a San Francisco-based construction technology company that has mapped over 50 billion square feet of job sites across 125 countries using AI-powered 360-degree visual intelligence. A Stanford Symbolic Systems grad and MIT Media Lab alum who played in an indie rock band before building award-winning smart toys exhibited at MoMA, Kalanithi brought the same obsessive product craft to construction — an industry he stumbled into while helping ship drones at 3D Robotics. OpenSpace has raised ~$200M and counts 62% of the ENR Top 400 general contractors as customers.