Trimble® announced the winners of its annual 0-60 Challenge, a startup program organized in collaboration with the Trimble Ventures corporate venture fund. The Trimble 0–60 Challenge helps identify and support the most innovative startups, entrepreneurs and developers across architecture, engineering, construction and asset lifecycle management. Sixteen companies were selected as finalists last summer from a global pool of applicants. Each spent three months refining their solutions before presenting them to a live audience at Trimble's annual Dimensions User Conference in Las Vegas.
Trimble selected three 0-60 Challenge winners and two special award recipients, each leveraging integrations with the Trimble Connect® collaboration platform and multiple Trimble software solutions including ProjectSight®, SketchUp® and Tekla®. The winners were chosen across three categories — Connected Data, Connected Design and Connected Field or Jobsite — and evaluated against five criteria to assess the strength and impact of their proposals. Eight judges from Trimble, representing multiple technology-related disciplines, voted to decide the winners.
The Trimble 0-60 Challenge Winners are:
First Place: Datagrid is an agentic AI tool that integrates deeply into Trimble because contractors need AI that executes; not another chatbot. Its Agent Builder connects Trimble to 100+ systems, completing critical tasks like daily report reviews and purchase order generation while keeping humans informed.
Second Place: KOPE AI is a software platform that brings generative design and AI optimization to prefabrication and modular construction. By analyzing project requirements, it automatically suggests optimized building methods that reduce material waste and cost.
Third Place: Now Vision offers AI-powered visual inspection tools that automate construction monitoring by identifying defects and tracking progress directly from site imagery. Integration with ProjectSight further improves reporting accuracy and accelerates issue resolution.
First, second and third place winners all received cash prizes.
HP’s AI Development Excellence Award powered by NVIDIA: NavLive specializes in real-time spatial intelligence, delivering accurate, interactive 2D and 3D models to support efficient design and progress monitoring. Integrated with Trimble’s geospatial solutions, NavLive’s AI-powered handheld scanner generates real-time 2D and 3D models and instant actionable output using on board NVIDIA technology, improving efficiency for complex, multi-phase construction projects. As the winner of HP’s AI Development Excellence Award powered by NVIDIA NavLive received an HP ZGX Nano AI Station supercomputer. The HP ZGX Nano allows AI model prototyping, tuning and inferencing without the need for the cloud or datacenter overhead.
“Scaled Thought” Award: TestFit’s AI-driven real estate feasibility platform helps developers, architects, and contractors quickly generate and evaluate building layouts. Join’s preconstruction and design-phase management platform streamlines cost and benchmarking analytics. Together, Join and TestFit provide real-time iteration of land-use feasibility and cost analysis, reducing the current process from weeks to minutes. As the winners of the "Scaled Thought" Award given by our AWS Account Team (including John Santiago and Brett Mitchell), TestFit and Join received three ½-day workshops with AWS Solution Architects to help take their products from prototype to production at cloud scale.
“The Trimble 0-60 Challenge helps entrepreneurs and startups build transformative technology solutions that tackle critical industry challenges across architecture, engineering and construction,” said Chris Peppler, vice president of platform at Trimble. “Through seamless integrations with Trimble software, these solutions are fundamentally improving connected workflows, with many leveraging artificial intelligence to boost efficiency and accelerate industry advancements. We’re honored to have helped foster their growth and look forward to seeing the impact they make in the market.”
Integrations for six of the finalists are now available on Trimble Marketplace, a centralized online catalog of more than 150 pre-built and verified integrations, applications and extensions designed to extend Trimble connectivity to leading third-party software.
The Trimble 0–60 Challenge is organized in collaboration with Trimble Ventures, a corporate venture fund that supports early entrepreneurs developing transformative technologies. Beyond providing capital, Trimble Ventures offers unique industry expertise, helping companies refine their technologies and go-to-market strategies, and accelerate innovation within construction, transportation, geospatial and other core industries.
