Top 35 Infrastructure Startup Investors in Middle East in October 2023

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• Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
• Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
• Alive — Alive is building a globally leading decentralized artificial intelligence platform supported by a global community of developers, individuals, economists and technologists.The Alive Foundation is a steward, and will support and grow the Alive community until it becomes self-sufficient. Time51 Labs helped launch Alive, and currently serve asadvisors to the Foundation and operators.

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• Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
• EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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• N-Drip — A disruptive technology that provides precise irrigation, produces higher yields while saving water, without adding energy or needing water filtration.
• AgriTask — Agritask - We provide a single platform to manage and optimize your ag-operations from A-to-Z, turning data into actionable insights.
• XRHealth — XRHealth is a virtual clinic where caring clinicians and advanced technology come together to help you feel your best. Try Virtual Reality therapy at home.

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• AlloVir — AlloVir focuses on the development of cell therapies and focuses on restoring natural immunity against the virus-associated diseases. It provides an ideal environment for ViraCyte to develop and advance its product pipeline from discovery through late-stage clinical trials. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Houston, Texas.
• 4M Analytics — 4M Analytics' unique Technology provides owners, consulting engineers, and contractors a complete, accurate, and up-to-date subsurface-infrastructure database.
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• Airobotics — An Israeli manufacturer and operator of UAV systems deployed as aerial infrastructure for government and commercial entities.
• CrowdStreet — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
• 4M Analytics — 4M Analytics' unique Technology provides owners, consulting engineers, and contractors a complete, accurate, and up-to-date subsurface-infrastructure database.

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• BBy — BBy connects nursing mothers with couples who can't produce or do not produce enough breast milk to feed their child
• Boostly — Increase orders, engage with customers, drive reviews & boost loyalty. All without lifting a finger. Automate & measure your marketing with Boostly.
• BlueCargo — BlueCargo is a predictive algorithm platform that brings visibility to optimize operations in seaport terminals. Their proprietary predictive algorithms streamline container management to increase terminal’s productivity while reducing operational costs and enhancing the quality of the service.

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• Kaiima — Kaiima Seeds is a castor genetics and breeding company that develops innovative castor hybrids improving plant productivity on a large scale.
• Voltaire — High speed ethernet interconnect solutions and services.
• Mindguard — The MindGuard team offers a unique blend of scientific and engineering expertise. The company know-how integrates the fields of mechanical engineering, blood flow dynamics and blood cell biology with cardiology, neurology and invasive radiology. World opinion leaders are active participants on the multidiscipline International Advisory Boardpurposed to further company endeavors.

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• Earnix — Real-time AI-driven rating engine, dynamic pricing, product personalization, and analytical underwriting solutions for insurance & banking from Earnix.
• Floating Point Group — Floating Point Group is a trading platform provider offering innovative, industry-leading trade execution and settlement
• Magink display technologies — Magink is a privately held company founded in 2000 with offices in the U.K and Israel. magink addresses the Out-of-Home media market; outdoor advertising, retail signage, public information, transportation, in-store point-of-purchase, promotional displays and entertainment. Magink's new product lines (indoor and outdoor solutions) arecurrently being tested and deployed in several cities globally. magink is committed to the continuous development of its core technology: full-color, commercially-viable digital ink display systems. This proprietary technology provides high resolution, high contrast, full-color, low energy consumption and cost effective digital display applications to a broad array of global industries.

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• Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
• CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
• Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul

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• Bit — Bit is an open-source toolchain for the development of composable software.
• NextNav — NextNav elevates geolocation with solutions for vertical location and resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT)
• Tailor Brands — Create a logo and develop a unique brand identity in 5 minutes. Our logo maker and branding tools will get your brand noticed and help grow your business.

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• Onfleet — Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University.
• Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
• Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.

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• Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
• Pylon — Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure.
• Almentor — almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic.

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• CADY — CADY's mission is to fully automate the inspection and verification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) schematics, using AI technology.
• Loora — Unlock your full potential with Loora, your very own AI English tutor. Engage in real conversations with Loora anytime, anywhere, and on any topic!
• Everafter.ai — Build personalized hubs for every customer - from POC and onboarding plans to success plan and monthly communications. And the best part - embed it inside your product.

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• Edgybees — Edgybees’ pioneering platform delivers real-time, high-speed augmented reality experiences to anything that moves. Using sensors and streaming data, AR application developers can now deliver overlays that keep up with a three-dimensional human experience of high-speed motion. The Edgybees platform contains a set of unique, patent-pendingcapabilities packaged in the form of a developer SDK coupled with its back-end SaaS services. This ability opens the door to exciting new consumer and commercial applications of high-speed AR on a wide range of devices. Edgybees was co-founded in 2016 by Menashe Haskin, former manager of the Amazon Prime Air Israeli development office, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, together with CEO Adam Kaplan and Vice President for Research and Development Nitay Megides.
• Syntiant — Syntiant's ultra-low-power deep learning processors enable Always-On Voice (AOV) control for most any battery-powered device, from earbuds to laptops, at near-zero power.
• Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.

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• Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
• CoreTigo — CoreTigo provides high-performance IO-Link Wireless communication solutions for machine builders, system integrators & industrial equipment manufacturers.
• Allseated — AllSeated is a free collaboration network for planning events that enables you to design floor plans, manage guest lists, and create seating seating charts. We save you time and make planning your event simple.

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• Datumate — Discover the future of construction with our construction data analytics and management platform. Elevate your infrastructure projects today!

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• Minute Media — We are a digital-first media company with a global footprint, bringing passion to life with proprietary technology that powers best-in-class content and advertising partnerships.
• Samanage — Samanage is the Service Success Company, enabling organizations worldwide to deliver a smarter service experience to their employees. Samanage’s service management software gives users solutions that allow them to deliver fast and repeatable services across an organization -- simplifying complex tasks and automating basic ones. As the mostreviewed and highest rated service desk, Samanage solutions deliver insights to its users and empower them to increase productivity across their organization.The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Cary, North Carolina. In 2019. Samanage was acquired by
• Quali — Quali orchestrates and deploys cloud infrastructure so you can understand usage, boost developer productivity, and optimize cloud costs.

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• FieldIn — Fieldin delivers risk mitigation for high value crops, helping farmers stay competitive against shrinking prices and profits.
• Arugga AI Farming — Arugga intends to transform greenhouse vegetable farming into a data-driven, automated and efficient field by designing the first autonomous robot which will monitor and treat every individual plant in the greenhouse.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Prisma Photonics — Prisma Photonics helps utility operators to keep critical infrastructure running using existing optical fiber.
• Sera Prognostics — Sera Prognostics' vision as The Pregnancy Company is to be a leader in health diagnostics to improve the lives of women and babies through prenatal care.
• Acrivon Therapeutics — Developing best-in-class targeted therapies to improve the lives of patients.

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• V-Wave — V-Wave Ltd. is a privately held company with offices in Israel and the US. The company is focused on developing percutaneous implantable devices for treating patients with Chronic Heart Failure (HF). V-Wave’s vision is to help patients who remain with disabling symptoms or need hospitalization despite optimized medical treatment. V-Wave hasdeveloped a proprietary interatrial shunt intended to relieve symptoms, reduce hospitalization, increase exercise capacity and improve the overall quality of life.The original concept and development started in Israel with a talented team of engineers and medical scientists. The company’s senior management has decades of experience successfully developing, clinically testing and bringing to market multiple implantable cardiovascular devices.
• Flytrex — Drone delivery from your favorite local restaurants and grocery stores, straight to your backyard within 5 minutes. Contact-free, lightning-fast and no tipping.
• Exceed Talent Capital — Exceed is an innovative platform to invest, earn, engage, influence, and celebrate Talent.

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• erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• Baytonia — Baytonia is an E-commerce marketplace that is dedicated to customer happiness and consistently provides exceptional value in the form of distinctive and high-quality homeware collections.
• Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

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• TULU — TULU is a smart platform and amenity services provider to over 10,000 people in 50 buildings across the United States, Europe and Israel. Founded in 2019, TULU provides urban tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand name appliances, grocery staples, micro-mobility and entertainment devices, and more. TULU’s IoT-based modular units arecustomized to provide the most necessary and useful items, while leveraging advanced machine learning tools to analyze behavioral patterns, optimize usage, refine inventory, and create a personalized experience for our users. The outcome is a new way of living, encouraging more responsible consumption, reducing the cost of living in the city, and consistent with the trend to smaller and smaller living spaces.
• XTEND — XTEND develops solutions that allow people to interact with drones and other unmanned machine technologies. The company’s technology enables humans to extend themselves into the action by allowing them to virtually sit inside the drone for various tactical missions. Designed for both indoor and outdoor uses, XTEND’s technology can also be used togamify real-life activities.
• Oxeye Security — Cloud native application security testing solution designed specifically for modern architectures across microservices, containers, clusters, and clouds. OWASP TOP 10 & OWASP TOP 10 API. Learn More

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• Modulous — The Modulous Fastrack solution is a digitally integrated process enabling the rapid design, assembly and delivery of high quality, affordable, sustainable and smart homes.
• Grid Edge — Grid Edge uses artificial intelligence technology to predict, optimize and control the energy profile, unlocking the potential to become active and intelligent participants in the energy system. The company specializes in hybrid deep learning and artificial neural network methods, Grid Edge provides cloud-based software services that work inharmony with building energy management systems.
• Hyperion Robotics — We are accelerating the transition to sustainable and automated construction with Concrete 3D Printing.

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• Pentera — Pentera tests the integrity of all cybersecurity layers by safely emulating real attack methods from an adversarial perspective to identify key security gaps.
• ElSight — Reliable, high bandwidth, AI-powered connectivity solutions for drones, UAVs and autonomous platforms. Using our proprietary 6th sense technology, we deliver absolute global connection confidence, even in the most challenging areas
• DeepCube — Deploy your AI technology on any device with the first deep learning software accelerator.

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• TRAICK — Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Risk of Thyroid Cancer Analysis, Yapay Zeka ile Tiroid Kanser Risk Tahmini
• Mistikist — Mistikist's AI Assisted Brainwave Entrainment for focus, relaxation & sleep. Well-being in just minutes with neuroscience backed methodology.
• Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.

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• cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
• ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
• Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

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• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
• Aaritya Technologies — Because when you trade, we want you to trade like a pro.

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• Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
• Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology. Over 70 digital products, one ecosystem!
• XENA VISION — Next Generation Emergency Recognition Technology

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• Kasha — Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas.
• Satya MicroCapital — Satya MicroCapital is an NBFC-MFI that offers collateral-free credit to micro enterprises on the basis of strong credit assessment and a centralised approval system.SATYA started its microfinance operations by adopting the “Joint Liability Group (JLG) Model” with adequate use of technology and new adaptations. JLGs of SATYA means implementationsof Joint Liability of group members which exists up to 10 instalments in Bi-Weekly collections. The Company believes in the ideology to bring social touch and high technology in the Indian microfinance industry.The JLG lending operation mainly focuses on a woman (in case of SATYA, her husband acts as co-borrower) through a credit product that allows her to start a new business or enhance her existing business as well. SATYA provides prompt, convenient and affordable collateral-free credit to people at the bottom of the pyramid through a strong credit assessment and centralized approval.The Company started its microfinance operation from Sikandrabad Branch, Bulandshar District of Uttar Pradesh and the first token disbursement was done in November 2016. SATYA utilized demonetization as an opportunity to rework on the business strategy through cashless transactions. SATYA is an institution build with a vision of change, transformation and will be a differentiator in financial inclusion space and its approach is well recognized by industry experts and professionals across different sectors. SATYA is committed to being a socially responsible organization with a focus on Health, Education, Financial Literacy, Nasha-Mukt Samaaj, Gender Equality, and Swachh Bharat. The Company is spreading social awareness messages in its area of operations.
• Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019

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• Bink — Upgrade your loyalty programme with card linking technology, or launch a new one in record time.
• WHSmith — Welcome to WHSmith. Here you can find stationery, books, toys and games and many more products. Shop online or find out more about us.
• Air Protein — Air Protein is a startup that aims to develop sustainable protein made from thin air. Using a proprietary probiotic process, Air Protein develops protein-enriched food made from CO2. This revolutionary new protein source can be used to make meat-free burgers, protein-enriched pasta, cereals, beverages, and more.Air Protein has been developed byKiverdi, a California-based biotechnology company.

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• Lab 1 — Lab 1 - Contextualising the World's Compromised Data
• Venari Security — Venari is an encrypted traffic analysis (ETA) platform that detects threats hidden within encrypted traffic and helps deliver cryptographic and regulatory compliance for enterprise organisations without the need for decryption. Acting as an automated early warning system for security teams, Venari's ETA platform detects threats hidden withinencrypted traffic reducing the overall response time.Headquartered in London with a Development Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Tunis, Venari fundamentally changes the way encrypted traffic is analysed using a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioural analytics. To date, Venari has been recognised by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) cyber accelerator programme and Barclays TechStars accelerator program. The organisation has won various industry awards in 2019 and 2020.
• Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

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• IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
• Advantive — Advantive provides specialty manufacturing and distribution software solutions that scale and streamline operations. See how we can help your business succeed!
• Superluminal Medicines — Superluminal Medicines is a generative biological and chemical company accelerating new possibilities in drug discovery and development. Its platform creates candidate-ready compounds with speed using a comprehensive combination of deep biology and chemistry expertise, machine learning, and proprietary big data infrastructure.

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• Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
• Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.
• Social Value Portal — Backed the National TOMs Framework, Social Value Portal helps organisations measure, report and enhance their social value.

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• 4M Analytics — 4M Analytics' unique Technology provides owners, consulting engineers, and contractors a complete, accurate, and up-to-date subsurface-infrastructure database.
• mySupermarket — mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores. Its supermarket shopping and comparison website offers transparent pricing, promotion and product information, enabling consumers to find online deals, offers and vouchers to save money on their grocery shop.
• Carambola — Elevate Engagement and Amplify Revenue with our cutting-edge solutions. Harness the power of AI for maximum impact today

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• 4M Analytics — 4M Analytics' unique Technology provides owners, consulting engineers, and contractors a complete, accurate, and up-to-date subsurface-infrastructure database.