Suffolk Technologies

🚀 Suffolk Technologies is excited to be part of SF Tech Week 2025 next week! We’re looking forward to the incredible Built World events happening across the city. Join us at: 📍 Oct 7: Built World Pickleball Mixer — Co-hosted by Suffolk Technologies, DivcoWest, Hilti Venture, and Brick & Mortar Ventures 🔗 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gGNtzQPH 📍 Oct 7: Unstable Foundations: CRE’s Relationship with Tech (Goodwin JLL Spark) 🔗 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/ga5Q42sE 📍 Oct 8: Suffolk Technologies Founder Breakfast 🔗 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gt4RFfyp 📍 Oct 8: Deep Tech Nexus — Co-hosted by Crusoe, NVIDIA, Omni Ventures, Virta Ventures, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise 🔗 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eTkEA2PR & pre-event here: https://luma.com/9nxpa55w 📍 Oct 10: Bagels & Breakthroughs: Founders x Funders — Co-hosted by Boxsy, FLUIX AI and Oppos Inc. 🔗 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gjdB5qYu ✨ It’s going to be an energizing week with founders, investors, and operators reimagining the future of the built world. See you there! Check out more Built World events we’re following in the comments! Diana K. Alice Leung Phoebe Z. Antonia Elisa Soler Blasco Breton Birkhofer Daniel Stein Subham Kedia Kei Onishi Tiffine Wang Jay Onda

🚀 Introducing Dig Energy: The Low-Cost Geothermal Drilling Alternative As part of our BOOST 6 cohort spotlight series, we’re excited to introduce Dig Energy, Inc., a company making efficient, cost-effective geothermal heating and cooling available at scale. Dig Energy has developed proprietary geothermal drilling technology that is radically more cost-efficient and compact than repurposed oil and gas equipment. Their system delivers: ✅ 80% reduction in drilling costs ✅ 50% reduction in drilling noise levels ✅ 75% smaller borehole diameter With a compact footprint enabling multi-head operations and tighter property setbacks, Dig makes ground source heat pumps and thermal networks cost-competitive with fossil fuels, while reducing grid strain as the $2.7T HVAC market electrifies. Founded by second-time founders Dulcie Madden and Thomas Lipoma, Dig Energy is bringing groundbreaking (literally!) innovation to the built world. 👋 Congratulations to the Dig team! We’re thrilled to be on this journey with you. Stay tuned as we spotlight more BOOST 6 companies in the weeks ahead!

Last week, we co-hosted an event during New York Climate Week, Urban Playground: Climate Innovation in our Cities, with our partners Climate Salon and Morrison Foerster. Together, we convened leaders across climate tech, policy, finance, and the built environment to explore some of the most pressing questions shaping the future of our cities. Attendees broke into groups to dive into key topics including: 💸 Financing FOAK projects in urban environments 🚦 Pilot deployments in cities 🌱 Building greener infrastructure 🌍 Scaling solutions across city borders 🛡️ Strengthening climate resilience The discussions were rich and forward-looking, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges in driving climate innovation at scale. A special shout-out to Victoria Pisini, Jonson Berman, Steven Burke, Gustavo B., Becky Gallagher, Frank Paz, Georgina Campbell Flatter, Lauren Wang, Rawand Rasheed, PhD, Sally Chen, Alexandra Kokot, and Sonam Velani for their leadership in shaping this dialogue, and to all the participants who contributed their ideas and expertise. The collaboration and exchange of perspectives in the room underscored just how critical cross-sector partnerships are to advancing urban climate solutions.

Earlier this month, Jit Kee Chin spoke at the 2025 Global Infrastructure Initiative Summit in Los Angeles, hosted by McKinsey & Company. She joined an insightful panel discussion, “Will AI Solve the Construction Productivity Puzzle?” alongside Alaa AbuSiam (Egis), Dev Amratia (nPlan — a Suffolk Technologies portfolio company), and Usman Shuja (Bluebeam — a BOOST Operating Partner). We’re always grateful for opportunities to collaborate with industry leaders who are shaping the future of construction. Conversations like these underscore the importance of embracing innovation and adopting new technologies to drive meaningful change — from boosting productivity to enhancing safety, sustainability, and collaboration across the value chain. Our team is also excited to share more on this topic soon — including our perspective on the future of infrastructure and where we see the greatest opportunities for innovation, adoption, and impact across the built world. Stay tuned.

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 ARKI: The AI platform that thinks like an architect 🚀 Over the next eight weeks, we'll spotlight the startups in our BOOST 6 cohort, an intensive 8-week accelerator equipping trailblazing founders with the tools, insights, and connections to transform the built world. Today, meet ARKI: ARKI gives architects and engineers instant access to every design detail across their firm. Their AI platform converts years of scattered files into collective intelligence, allowing teams to find exactly what they need to accelerate project delivery. By seamlessly integrating with Revit, ARKI solves version control issues and frees architects and engineers from recreating details. The payoff is immediate: firms save thousands in billable hours within weeks, cutting up to 3 hours from every detail. ARKI is already driving results for customers, delivering up to a 50% boost in efficiency and cutting construction detail production time by over 30%. Founded by architect Natalia Bakaeva OAA IA.AIA and engineer Mehdi Karamnejad, ARKI is positioned to become the most effective AI solution for architecture and engineering firms, serving as a single source of truth and strengthening quality control. 👋Congratulations to the ARKI team, we're thrilled to be on this journey with you. Stay tuned as we spotlight more BOOST 6 companies in the weeks ahead.

It’s always inspiring to see our portfolio founders making a real impact on the industry. 🚀 Huge congratulations to Maria Davidson and the entire Kojo team on their incredible momentum and continued growth! 👏 Excited to see what’s next.

Last week, we had the privilege of welcoming our BOOST 6 founders to Boston for our annual Pre-Launch Program. Over two packed days, founders: ✅ Connected with our team, Operating Partners and fellow founders ✅ Gained insights from past BOOST founders, Nicholas Selz (Kaya AI) and Derrick Morse, P.E. (Rugged Robotics) ✅ Joined Construction Tech 101 and Fundraising 101 sessions to build a strong foundation for the program ✅ Stepped onto a Suffolk jobsite to see cutting-edge solutions shaping construction today Even more valuable than the sessions was the chance to meet each founder face-to-face, hear their stories, and get inspired by their vision for the future of the built world. We can’t wait to see what this cohort accomplishes during BOOST, and beyond! Stay tuned for more about Demo Day, and check out https://lnkd.in/gHza8NZG for details on everything happening in Boston this November around the Built World!

I’m proud to announce that we’ve officially partnered with Wesco - the largest electrical distributor in the US. As part of our partnership, Wesco invested $10M in our Series C extension (led by Battery Ventures) bringing our Series C to $49 million, and our total raised to date to $94 million. Both of our teams have been hard at work building new products that allow contractors to achieve unprecedented efficiency and accuracy on project delivery. Our first joint launch is our new AI product – Project POs – which we built to simplify our customers’ most complex and long lead time orders, especially on data centers. There’s a lot more innovation to come. On a personal note - I learnt that this is the most venture funding raised by a female founder in construction tech history. That’s both humbling and motivating. Especially since when we started, people told me that being a 25 year old female CEO in construction tech wouldn’t get me far. Thank you Axios and Colin Campbell for the write up! To learn more, check out www.usekojo.com. We’re hiring!

🚀 BOOST 6 Cohort Announcement 🚀 We’re thrilled to introduce this year’s BOOST 6 cohort —our biggest and boldest yet! With eight exceptional companies, 55 Operating Partners, and 200+ applications, BOOST is accelerating like never before. This year’s cohort reflects the cutting edge of innovation across design, materials, energy, robotics, AI, and more, all with the power to transform how we build. Meet the BOOST 6 companies: 🔹 ARKI – A design system that helps architecture and engineering firms complete projects 50% faster by intelligently leveraging past data. 🔹 Cyphra Autonomy – An autonomous material movement solution tailored for the built environment. 🔹 Dig Energy, Inc. – A geothermal drilling technology that is more cost-efficient, compact, and thermally effective than traditional equipment. 🔹 Hardline – A voice-first orchestration platform built specifically for construction teams. 🔹 MOD – A platform that evaluates prefab potential in architectural designs and organizes supply chain opportunities to accelerate prefabrication adoption. 🔹 Neuron Factory – An AI coworker platform designed to optimize and improve the daily tasks of construction workers. 🔹 Ouros Materials – Ultra-tough, resilient, low-cost composite materials using captured CO₂ to reduce environmental impact. 🔹 Puppet Robotics – An AI-driven collaborative robotics platform for construction, starting with welding through imitation learning and teleoperation. 💡 This is where ideas meet industry. Read more about the BOOST program and this year’s cohort here: https://lnkd.in/gbmiWSBc

🚀 The countdown to Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate 2025 is on — we’re officially two weeks away from the largest, most global gathering of industry leaders and innovators leading the charge in changing the built world. Join us Thursday, September 18 at 2:00 PM PT for a can’t-miss panel on one of the most pressing topics in real estate and infrastructure: the future of data centers. The demand for digital infrastructure is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. To meet it, the industry must solve for land, power, people, and the technologies that bind them together. From energy access and site selection to regional coordination and infrastructure readiness, this panel will explore how leaders are addressing today’s constraints while uncovering opportunities to build smarter, faster, and more sustainably. We’re bringing together voices at the forefront of this transformation, including our very own Wan Li Zhu, James McWalter of Paces, Gregoire VIASNOFF of Schneider Electric, and Joe McMurphy of EC Electric. 👉 Don’t miss out! Register now and save $300 on your All-Access Pass at https://lnkd.in/edJv7MX3 Planning to attend? Drop us a comment — we’d love to connect in Vegas!