Introducing our Investment in Enview
As can be observed by our portfolio, Crosslink has been thinking a lot about geospatial analytics as an important emerging technical capability. The combination of innovations in remote sensing, computer vision, and deep learning come together to create incredible new capabilities to assess happenings on earth and, more specifically, the world’s physical infrastructure.
Today we announce our latest investment in the geospatial analytics market, Enview. Enview provides 3D geospatial data and analytics to help protect the world’s energy infrastructure, focusing initially on supporting the operational safety and reliability of oil & gas pipelines and electric power lines. Enview’s technology enables operators to prevent significant threats to their infrastructure, produce tangible savings in operating expenses by automating what are today extremely manual tasks and generate dramatically higher fidelity insights.
To generate these insights, Enview’s analytics platform amasses nation-scale data feeds from multiple different datasets such as LiDAR, aerial imagery, satellite imagery, and GIS. The data fusion techniques required to unify these datasets alone is a heroic task. Utilizing the Enview team’s expertise in advanced analytics (including 3D computer vision and deep learning), they have developed deeply intelligent algorithms on top of these large geospatial datasets to enable computers to see more than the human eye can and provide unique and valuable insights.
Enview’s first products use software to help pipeline operators, utilities and other energy companies automate key safety and compliance tasks that bog down large teams of people within their organizations. Enview’s technology also utilizes predictive techniques to identify threats to its customers’ infrastructure before those threats can become incidents with massive consequences. Enview’s pioneering founders are solving real world challenges with leading edge technology and are addressing a massive TAM in the energy industry. This is exactly what we look for in early stage companies.
The Crosslink team is proud to announce leading Enview’s $6M Series A round and congratulate the progress by co-founders San Gunawardana and Krassimir Piperkov along with their excellent team. I am inspired by their hard work and look forward to working with the team to help grow Enview to become a deeply impactful company.
