Suffolk Hosts Boost Demo Day ConTech Start-Up Conference

Suffolk Applied sciences, the enterprise capital arm of Suffolk Building, 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 traders, building leaders and know-how companions. Throughout the course of this system, BOOST individuals had entry to Suffolk Building initiatives in addition to 55 working companion 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 in regards to the impetus behind the creation of BOOST, and what drove his agency to domesticate know-how start-ups for the business at massive.

“Innovation has by no means been non-obligatory at Suffolk—it’s important,” Fish mentioned, 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 surroundings.

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

As with many start-up occasions in recent times, synthetic intelligence was entrance and middle on this 12 months’s BOOST cohort.

ARKI, a design platform for architects and engineers, is meant to assist them full their initiatives no less than 50% sooner by leveraging their very own previous challenge knowledge.

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

Dig Power gives geothermal drilling know-how with cost-efficient, compact and thermally efficient gear choices. Hardline is a pure language AI-powered challenge 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 every day duties of website employees.

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

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

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

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

Cyphra Autonomy took residence the Demo Day’s Folks’s Selection Award from the traders and building leaders. Neuron Manufacturing unit gained Autodesk’s Make Something award.