- Seattle-based GIS company Unearth announced that it raised $7 million in funding
Unearth — a Seattle-based GIS company founded by Brian Saab, Amy Hutchins, and Nate Miller — announced that it raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Vulcan Capital with participation from Madrona Venture Group. Including this round of funding, Unearth has raised a total of $11.6 million.
Started out in 2016, Unearth had originally focused on improving productivity in construction with place-based data management. And its success as a construction software company led to an expanding customer base amongst the broader built world industry including major customers in the utilities, government, infrastructure, and energy sectors. And through strong customer partnerships, the company discovered what the built world needed, which is an easier way for teams to use GIS data for building, inspecting, and maintaining physical assets.
The traditional GIS solutions have developed over the past 50 years to be complex and analytical engineering tools. Those solutions are often hampered by the current standards of cloud and mobile-first computing.
Unearth fixes this problem by bringing siloed GIS data to distributed field teams with an easy map-based interface. And Unearth’s platform improves productivity for both office and field by simplifying their GIS workflow.
“Unearth’s simple design makes it incredibly easy to use. Our team, located across the globe, focuses on reducing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. With Unearth’s GIS platform, everyone can easily collaborate on multiple projects without worrying about the headaches we used to face with traditional GIS software. The diverse toolset allows anyone to easily annotate, share, and discuss aerial maps to help further the mission of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation,” Grace C. Liu of the East Asia WMD Nonproliferation Program at Middlebury College.
This year, Unearth evolved its OnePlaceTM software into a simple GIS platform with a broad horizontal appeal. And its enhanced offering is useful to any organization that needs a simple way to manage data tied to a location. Plus it allows teams to leverage the power of GIS without requiring intensive training or costly custom apps.
“Vulcan is active in commercial real estate and we know how detrimental fragmented data and paper processes are to built-world companies,” added Stuart Nagae of Vulcan Capital. “We quickly recognized Unearth as a veteran startup team that’s impacting these aspects of the industry. Their intuitively accessible, map-based user experience in tandem with their scalable cloud solution creates a seamless connection between key stakeholders regardless of location or device.”’
With this round of funding, Unearth is planning to expand its go to market efforts and build out its engineering team to more quickly develop niche industry solutions.
