Exodigo

Exodigo was founded in 2021 by Jeremy Suard, who serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Ido Gonen, who acts as the Chief Technology Officer, and Yogev Shifman, who holds the position of Chief Product Officer. The three founders established the company after serving together in Unit 81, the elite technological division of the Israel Defense Forces' Military Intelligence Directorate, where they accumulated deep expertise in complex signal processing and advanced sensor development.

While the primary research and development headquarters is located in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company maintains its main commercial operations out of the San Francisco Bay Area in California (operating primarily in Palo Alto and Concord). Additionally, Exodigo has established local office operations in London, United Kingdom, and Paris, France, to support its rapidly expanding sales and field operations across the European market.

Exodigo operates as a privately held entity and is not publicly traded on any stock exchange. In February 2024, the company officially announced the closing of a $105 million Series A funding round, co-led by Greenfield Partners and Zeev Ventures. This significant raise brought the company’s total external capital to approximately $134 million, following a $29 million Seed round secured in 2022. While an exact public valuation was not formally disclosed in the Series A press release, industry estimates place it securely in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The company currently employs roughly 120 to 150 people globally. The headcount is geographically split, with approximately 70 employees located at the Tel Aviv research and development center, focusing primarily on hardware engineering, algorithm development, and product design. The remaining global staff are distributed across the United States, the UK, and France, managing enterprise sales, go-to-market strategies, and hands-on field scanning operations.

Exodigo provides a non-intrusive subsurface imaging platform that physically combines multi-sensor arrays mounted on mobile carts and aerial drones with cloud-based artificial intelligence, processing massive data streams to generate highly precise 3D maps of underground utilities, bedrock, and infrastructure.

The single most consequential event for the company over the past 12 months was the successful closing and public announcement of its $105 million Series A funding round in February 2024. This major capital injection was strategically timed alongside the announcement of massive European expansion efforts, including multi-year utility mapping contracts with National Grid and the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project in the United Kingdom.

Exodigo is an independent startup and is not a subsidiary of any larger corporate parent. The company operates as its own primary holding entity, managing wholly-owned regional subsidiaries in the United States and the United Kingdom that facilitate local hiring, direct regulatory compliance, and complex contract negotiations with government transportation agencies.

The primary product line is the Exodigo Subsurface Mapping Platform, an integrated hardware-and-software solution. The field component consists of the Exodigo Cart Scanning system and the Exodigo Drone Mapping system, which gather raw physical data, while the cloud-based AI software engine ingests and visualizes this data into actionable three-dimensional models.

The precise problem Exodigo solves is the frequency of costly, dangerous utility strikes and project delays during heavy construction. Traditionally, construction firms must rely on outdated historical maps or engage in "potholing" (exploratory vacuum excavation) to locate buried pipes, cables, and groundwater. Exodigo entirely eliminates the need for this blind excavation by identifying all unmapped underground assets proactively before any digging commences.

The core buyers of this technology are enterprise-scale organizations operating in the civil engineering, construction, and public utility sectors. Typical customers include state transportation departments like Caltrans and TxDOT, large public utilities such as PG&E and National Grid, and major international engineering and construction contractors including WSP, HNTB, and Vinci Construction.

The product is sold primarily through a direct, sales-led enterprise model rather than a self-serve platform. Customers typically engage Exodigo through specific project-based contracts or comprehensive Master Service Agreements (MSAs), wherein Exodigo deploys its own field teams—or certified partners—to execute the physical ground scans, later delivering the digital CAD or GIS files directly to the client's engineering departments.

The specific pricing model is not publicly published in a standard tiered format on the company’s website, given the customized nature of civil engineering projects. However, pricing is generally structured around the total acreage or linear mileage surveyed during a specific deployment, with larger enterprise clients negotiating volume-based annual retainers that grant ongoing access to the continuously updated 3D subsurface models.

The company’s concrete technical moat lies in its proprietary sensor fusion capabilities and multi-layered AI algorithms. Rather than relying on a single data type, Exodigo physically fuses ground-penetrating radar (GPR), time-domain electromagnetics (TDEM), frequency-domain electromagnetics (FDEM), and magnetic sensors. Its AI engine simultaneously interprets these distinct signal streams without human bias, outputting a unified probability map of the subsurface that vastly outperforms any single-sensor manual survey.

Day-to-day, the Tel Aviv engineering organization relies heavily on Python and PyTorch to train and refine deep learning models capable of parsing raw geophysical signals. The software teams work extensively on point cloud processing architectures (such as PCL), massive GIS data integration pipelines, and maintaining a robust AWS cloud infrastructure designed to ingest, process, and store multiple terabytes of raw sensor data generated per survey.

The company's offerings are structurally divided into physical collection methods and digital outputs. The Exodigo Cart Scanning service utilizes custom-designed robotic carts pushed across urban environments to collect dense sensor data. Alternatively, the Exodigo Drone Mapping service mounts a modified sensor array onto heavy-lift aerial drones, allowing the company to map inaccessible rural terrain, agricultural fields, or wide transit corridors where pushing a cart is physically impossible.

The multi-sensor cart system serves as the company's flagship product, generating the highest resolution data necessary for dense, complex urban utility environments. The drone-based mapping system functions as an adjacent, highly scalable solution for topographically challenging environments where rapid, wide-area topographical and subsurface surveying is required by massive infrastructure initiatives.

The most notable recent product rollout occurred throughout 2023 and early 2024, when Exodigo designed, manufactured, and deployed its next-generation custom scanning carts. These updated units featured highly modular sensor arrays and ruggedized chassis designs created directly by the Tel Aviv hardware team, drastically improving the speed of deployment on harsh construction sites compared to the original prototypes.

Because Exodigo was founded relatively recently in 2021, the company has not initiated any public sunsetting or deprecation of legacy product lines. The core engineering strategy has remained strictly focused on expanding the sensing capabilities and processing speed of the initial platform, rather than retiring older systems which do not yet exist in the company's brief operational history.

To ensure utility, the Exodigo platform is engineered to export its final 3D models seamlessly into the standard operating environments already used by civil engineers. The platform natively integrates with and exports files specifically formatted for Esri ArcGIS, Autodesk Civil 3D, and Bentley MicroStation, allowing engineers to overlay Exodigo's subsurface data directly onto their existing CAD and BIM construction plans.

Regarding public benchmarks or certifications, Exodigo does not prominently publish specific SOC 2 or FedRAMP compliance milestones by year on its standard marketing materials. However, because the company handles highly sensitive mapping data for critical national infrastructure providers like PG&E and various state departments of transportation, the platform is subjected to rigorous enterprise-grade cybersecurity vetting and internal compliance audits.

Direct competitors to Exodigo include traditional surveying firms utilizing legacy single-sensor technologies, most notably Ground Penetrating Radar Systems (GPRS) in the United States. Furthermore, Exodigo competes tangentially with 4M Analytics, an Israeli startup that also maps underground utilities; however, 4M Analytics differs fundamentally by relying primarily on satellite imagery and existing database analysis rather than physically deploying multi-sensor hardware onto the dirt.

Within the broader competitive landscape, Exodigo does not currently occupy a named position within a Gartner Magic Quadrant or Forrester Wave, primarily because AI-driven subsurface sensor fusion remains an emerging, highly specialized niche. Nevertheless, the company has secured major industry validation, notably being named to the CB Insights AI 100 list in 2024 and featuring in TIME’s Best Inventions list in 2022.

Exodigo positions its pricing firmly in the premium enterprise tier. While an Exodigo survey carries a higher upfront financial cost than hiring a traditional surveyor with a standard GPR push-cart, the company justifies this premium by demonstrating a massive return on investment (ROI); specifically, by preventing multi-million dollar utility strikes, eliminating costly schedule delays, and reducing the physical risks associated with blind excavation.

The company has consistently announced major, press-reported contract wins over the last 24 months. Notably, in 2023 and 2024, Exodigo secured massive deployment agreements with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), expansive mapping contracts for the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project in the UK, and deep infrastructural partnerships with National Grid to map legacy assets.

The business trajectory is characterized by rapidly gaining market share within the global construction technology sector. Exodigo has aggressively successfully transitioned from executing localized, small-scale pilot programs in 2022 to securing multi-year framework agreements and continuous master service contracts across major transportation authorities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

Exodigo benefits immensely from specific sector tailwinds, most notably the passage of the US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). This legislation injects roughly $1.2 trillion of federal capital into upgrading American roads, bridges, railways, and power grids, creating an unprecedented, immediate demand for accurate subsurface mapping before any of this federally funded construction can safely begin.

As of early 2025, Exodigo has expanded its technological footprint entirely through organic venture-backed growth and internal R&D execution. The company has not acted as an acquirer, having announced no named acquisitions of smaller surveying firms or competing tech startups, nor has it been acquired by a larger conglomerate, remaining a fiercely independent private entity.

Exodigo’s operational footprint within Israel is entirely concentrated in the city of Tel Aviv. The Tel Aviv facility serves as the global research and development headquarters, housing the vast majority of the company's technical infrastructure, hardware laboratories, and deep learning engineering teams.

The company employs approximately 70 people in Israel, representing roughly half of its total global workforce. The functions operating out of the Tel Aviv office are heavily technical, encompassing the entirety of the R&D division, artificial intelligence and machine learning research, complex signal processing, proprietary hardware design, and executive product management.

To accommodate its aggressive scaling following the 2022 Seed round and leading up to the 2024 Series A round, Exodigo significantly expanded its physical footprint in Tel Aviv. This expansion notably included the construction of specialized hardware testing laboratories and assembly areas, allowing Israeli mechanical and electrical engineers to design, build, and stress-test the custom sensor carts on-site.

The foundational leadership and core technical visionaries of the company are all Israeli nationals. CEO Jeremy Suard, CTO Ido Gonen, and CPO Yogev Shifman were all born, raised, and educated in Israel, and their physical presence at the Tel Aviv headquarters ensures that the executive leadership remains directly connected to the day-to-day engineering and product development cycles.

Hiring in Israel is fiercely focused on deep-tech talent and specialized engineering roles. Exodigo typically recruits for highly sought-after positions including signal processing researchers, computer vision experts, backend software engineers, data scientists specializing in machine learning, and hardware/mechanical engineers capable of designing ruggedized sensor equipment for field deployment.

The company is heavily backed by notable Israeli venture capital and strategic investors. Prominent Israeli investors who have participated heavily across multiple funding rounds include Zeev Ventures (operated by Oren Zeev), 10D (founded by Yahav Yulzari), and Greenfield Partners, all of whom have provided critical capital and strategic networking support to fuel Exodigo’s global expansion.

The internal culture and specific hiring practices within the Israeli R&D center are heavily influenced by the IDF military pipeline, specifically Unit 81. The company relies heavily on recruiting alumni from Unit 81 and the prestigious Talpiot program, as these veterans possess the rare, precise blend of operational hardware experience, sensor fusion expertise, and complex algorithmic processing skills required to advance Exodigo's core technology.