Categories inside this group
Explore specific startup directions.
Each category is a doorway, not a limit. Founders can bring ideas that cross multiple groups, or ask us to create a new category if the market is still forming.
Existing Category
Construct-Tech
Construction and Maintenance
The Construct-Tech sector encompasses technological solutions and innovations in construction and maintenance. It includes building information modeling (BIM), construction automation, and smart building systems.
- Implementing building information modeling (BIM) and virtual reality tools for improved planning, design, and construction processes.
- Utilizing drones and remote sensing technologies for surveying, site inspection, and monitoring of construction projects.
- Enhancing safety in construction sites through wearable technologies, IoT sensors, and real-time monitoring systems.
Example leaders: Katerra, Procore Technologies, PlanGrid
Existing Category
Urban-Tech
Urban Technologies
The Urban-Tech sector encompasses technological solutions and innovations in urban technologies. It includes smart city platforms, urban mobility solutions, and urban planning tools.
- Develop urban technologies for smarter cities, improving infrastructure, transportation, and quality of life.
- Developing smart city solutions that integrate IoT, data analytics, and automation for efficient resource management.
- Implementing urban mobility solutions, such as intelligent traffic management systems and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Example leaders: Sidewalk Labs, Citymapper, Urbint, Techno Park City, NEOM City
New Category
Permit-Tech
Permitting, Zoning, Approvals, and Municipal Workflows
The Permit-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on permitting, zoning, approvals, and municipal workflows. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.
- Building practical products that help customers solve problems in permitting, zoning, approvals, and municipal workflows with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
- Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the construction, infrastructure & smart cities sector.
- Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.
Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.
New Category
Infra-Tech
Infrastructure Planning, Maintenance, Public Works, and Resilience
The Infra-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on infrastructure planning, maintenance, public works, and resilience. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.
- Building practical products that help customers solve problems in infrastructure planning, maintenance, public works, and resilience with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
- Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the construction, infrastructure & smart cities sector.
- Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.
Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.
New Category
Construction-Finance-Tech
Financing, Payments, Insurance, and Risk Tools for Construction
The Construction-Finance-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on financing, payments, insurance, and risk tools for construction. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.
- Building practical products that help customers solve problems in financing, payments, insurance, and risk tools for construction with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
- Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the construction, infrastructure & smart cities sector.
- Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.
Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.
New Category
Smart-Building-Tech
Connected Building Intelligence, Energy, Safety, and Automation
The Smart-Building-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on connected building intelligence, energy, safety, and automation. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.
- Building practical products that help customers solve problems in connected building intelligence, energy, safety, and automation with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
- Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the construction, infrastructure & smart cities sector.
- Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.
Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.
