Mach9 raises $34m Series A to turn road scans into engineering drawings

Mach9 raises $34m Series A to turn road scans into engineering drawings

21 October 2026: Mach9, which makes AI software that turns 3D scans of roads, utilities and building sites into draft engineering drawings, has raised a $34 million Series A co-led by First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners. Prudence joined and Quiet Capital, which led the seed, invested again, bringing the company's total funding to $49 million.

Not yet independently verified. The speed, cost and customer figures are Mach9's own; its post gives no founding year or headquarters, beyond hiring in San Francisco. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

From scanning hardware to drawing software

The four founders met at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, and members of the founding team previously worked on perception systems at Tesla, SpaceX, Apple, NASA and Google X. Mach9 started by building scanning hardware and moved to software about two years ago, chief executive and co-founder Alex Baikovitz writes, after customers said the hard part was not capturing data but turning it into drawings.

The product works with equipment surveyors already own. A customer uploads mobile LiDAR and other scan data, the software drafts the linework of a corridor, such as edges, curbs, poles and other features, and engineers review and finish the draft in Mach9's own editing tools. The company claims surveys up to ten times faster, at about a fifth of the cost, with centimetre-level accuracy across whole corridors.

Who uses it

Mach9 says it has nearly 100 customers, more than 2,500 projects in all 50 US states and more than 100,000 miles of corridor surveyed. The names it gives include the engineering firms WSP, HNTB, NV5 and Pennoni and the state agencies Caltrans, Minnesota DOT and the Maryland State Highway Administration. Caltrans is using it to inventory rumble strips and other safety features on Interstate 8 in San Diego; Fibersmith surveyed more than 1,000 miles of planned fibre route in Texas with it. "Mach9 enables us to do 50% more work with the same experienced team," said Rob Ashley, technology director at Pennoni.

Why the labour shortage is the pitch

The demand case rests on people more than technology. "Our industry is staff poor. We can't find staff," said Bryan Merritt, vice president of geospatial at the surveying firm KEITH, and Mach9 points to falling numbers of licensed surveyors against the backlog of US infrastructure work. The round pays for extending the software and for capacity to take on more of that work, with hiring in San Francisco. Our engineering CAD software category lists seven products and our GIS software category nine.

Company profile on TrustList: Mach9

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Sources

• Mach9: Mach9 raises $34M to bring civil engineering into the AI era, 21 October 2026
• TechCrunch: Mach9 raises $34M after pivoting to AI CAD software, 21 October 2026