Civil engineers spend about a week per mile turning laser scans and drone imagery into a usable survey, in software built by Autodesk and Bentley decades ago. Mach9 decided the scanner was never the bottleneck.
The company raised $34M in Series A funding co-led by First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Prudence and existing investor Quiet Capital joining. It follows a pivot: Mach9 Robotics dropped the word robotics and became a CAD software business.
Co-founder and chief executive Alex Baikovitz started in 2021 building faster, cheaper reality-capture hardware. Customers kept telling him the pain was downstream, in the workflow that turns endless sensor data into something a designer can use.
Nearly 100 customers in private beta
The bet has traction. Mach9 has roughly 100 customers using its private beta on more than 2,500 projects. Its software automates drafting from imagery and laser scans and is aimed at producing survey-grade geometry with centimetre accuracy, tracing curbs, pavement striping and site features to the tolerances infrastructure work demands.
The company says that is 10 times faster than incumbent tools, largely because it trained its own models in-house. Off-the-shelf vision models do not deliver that precision, Baikovitz argues.
A pipeline pulling in money
Construction and infrastructure software is having a moment. CivilGrid raised $26M in August to build a map of what sits underground, and Blueprints AI, which generates permit-ready architectural drawings, reached TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield top 200 this month.
The pattern is consistent: the industry’s bottleneck moved from collecting data to interpreting it. Mach9’s $34M is a wager that whoever owns the interpretation layer owns the design workflow that follows.
