Mach9
San Francisco AI software company founded 2021 by four Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute alumni; its Digital Surveyor turns LiDAR scans into CAD maps.
Mach9 is an AI software company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was co-founded by Alex Baikovitz, Haowen Shi, Michael Mong, and Zachary Sussman, who worked together at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and previously held roles at Tesla, SpaceX, NASA, Apple, and Google X. The company began as a hardware venture and shifted to a software-only model in 2024 after finding that customers needed help turning existing survey data into engineering drawings more than new data-collection hardware.
Its product, Digital Surveyor, is a web-based CAD application that uses AI to extract features such as breaklines, curbs, pavement striping, poles, signs, and utility wires directly from mobile LiDAR point clouds, producing engineering-ready 2D and 3D deliverables at centimeter-level accuracy. The software exports to DXF, DGN, Esri Feature Services, Geodatabase, JSON, and Shapefile formats and works with scan data from Leica, Phoenix, RIEGL, Trimble, and NavVis hardware. Mach9 reports cutting a mapping project's processing time from 223 days of manual digitization to 6 days.
Mach9 has delivered more than 2,500 projects covering over 100,000 miles surveyed, for firms including Olsson, HNTB, Michael Baker International, and Langan, and for the Maryland and Washington State transportation departments. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Quiet Capital, Tiger Global, and Overmatch.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Digital Surveyor
- Model: 2
- Launch Year: 2026
Web-based CAD platform that extracts road corridor features from LiDAR point clouds up to 100x faster than manual digitization.
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Contact Mach9
WEBSITE
https://mach9.aiPHONE
+1 (412) 979-7995HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
2021
Primary Role
Software/Algorithm
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Primary Region
North America
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