At our October Venture Forum meeting, Justin Henceroth, CEO and Co-Founder of Zite gave the Forum an overview of their ground-breaking business that’s trying to make our cities smarter.
Zite is a software platform for managing physical infrastructure assets, projects, and networks in order to improve quality, oversight, management, and planning. While physical infrastructure underlies all social and economic systems, most of the companies, organizations, and governments managing these assets have limited data, siloed management systems, and rudimentary planning and analysis. Mobile apps and IoT applications provide new opportunities to collect more and better data about sites, projects, and networks, but this data is only useful if and when it can be linked into decision-making processes.
Zite provides the platform to do exactly this. We make it easy to collect or link-in on-site data (from our mobile app, external data sources, and eventually IoT sensors). We then help organize that data to inform management processes — for example real-time quality assurance and automated workflows to help with day-to-day management and network maps, custom reports, and team analytics that track performance and feed into long-term planning. In essence, we try and make it easy to not only collect…