Suffolk Hosts Boost Demo Day ConTech Start-Up Conference

Suffolk Applied sciences, the enterprise capital arm of Suffolk Development, closed out its sixth BOOST building know-how accelerator program with its Demo Day in Boston Nov. 20.

Eight building know-how startups pitched their concepts to buyers, building leaders and know-how companions. In the course of the course of this system, BOOST individuals had entry to Suffolk Development initiatives in addition to 55 working associate organizations that work with the contractor on its initiatives and in its wider provide chain.

Suffolk Chairman and CEO John Fish welcomed the startups and spoke concerning the impetus behind the creation of BOOST, and what drove his agency to domesticate know-how start-ups for the trade at giant.

“Innovation has by no means been non-obligatory at Suffolk—it’s important,” Fish stated, addressing the intense challenges building faces right now, from ongoing labor shortages to shifting market dynamics.

OpenSpace CEO Jeevan Kalanithi was the occasion’s keynote speaker, and shared insights on scaling improvements within the constructed atmosphere.

Suffolk was an early investor in OpenSpace in 2019. Thirty alumni of BOOST have graduated this system because it started in 2020, together with trade tech companies Trunk Instruments and Kaya AI.

As with many start-up occasions in recent times, synthetic intelligence was entrance and middle on this yr’s BOOST cohort.

ARKI, a design platform for architects and engineers, is meant to assist them full their initiatives at the very least 50% sooner by leveraging their very own previous mission information.

Cyphra Autonomy is an autonomous supplies motion platform that makes use of small hauling robots and different supplies motion applied sciences.

Dig Power offers geothermal drilling know-how with cost-efficient, compact and thermally efficient tools choices. Hardline is a pure language AI-powered mission administration and coordination platform designed for constructing groups, not simply managing contractors.

MOD is a platform that evaluates prefabrication potential in architectural designs and organizes attainable provide chain alternatives to speed up prefabrication adoption.

Neuron Manufacturing unit makes an AI coworking platform designed to optimize and enhance the day by day duties of website staff.

Ouros Supplies offers resilient, low-cost composite supplies utilizing captured CO₂ in ceramics and polymers that may change constructing merchandise with bigger carbon footprints.

Lastly, Puppet Robotics introduced its AI-driven collaborative robotics platform for building, beginning with welding.

Suffolk stated startups in supplies science noticed an 80% year-over-year enhance in purposes in 2025 whereas submissions associated to robotics and tools rose by 60%. Curiosity in industrialized building and jobsite security additionally surged, evidenced by a greater than four-fold enhance in modular and prefab options and a 63% rise in predictive security employee safety.

“Applied sciences like AI, robotics and superior supplies are not on the horizon; they’re right here, and the trade is keen to implement,” stated Parker Mundt, associate and head of platform at Suffolk Applied sciences. “Our working associate community is extra dedicated than ever to adopting and scaling these options. By connecting these trade leaders with distinctive founders, BOOST augments core built-world processes to speed up our transition to a wiser, safer, extra environment friendly and sustainable constructed atmosphere.”

Cyphra Autonomy took residence the Demo Day’s Individuals’s Alternative Award from the buyers and building leaders. Neuron Manufacturing unit received Autodesk’s Make Something award.