- Mahanine is civil-engineering-specific software. Survey teams scan roads, pipes, and construction sites with equipment and upload 3-dimensional data. The software automatically moves elements such as curbs, signs, utility poles, lane markings, and power lines onto drawings. Users review the results, make corrections, and then finalize them.
- The company says this method is up to 10 times faster than existing manual work, its cost is about 1 out of 5, and it produces centimeter-level accuracy. This is the company's own claim and not an independently verified figure.
- The product is currently in a private beta, and about 100 customers have used it on more than 2,500 projects. Customers include civil engineering firms such as WSP, HNTB, and NV5, as well as transportation agencies such as Caltrans and the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
- This Series A round of $34 million was co-led by First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, and total funding has reached $49 million. The company was founded in 2021 by Carnegie Mellon University researchers and shifted from an early hardware business to software.
O: This is useful for a surveying lead who receives section scan data from a civil design team and reviews automated drafting results by comparing the same section against existing hand-drawn plans.
X: 10 times the speed and 1 cost per 5 minutes are the company's own claims. The product is in private beta, so its accuracy and actual savings have not been independently verified.