Daniel Pelaez

Daniel started his career on the DPW road crew in his small town hometown in Connecticut—filling potholes, clearing stormwater basins, and learning firsthand how much America’s infrastructure teams accomplish with limited tools.  That field experience shaped his mission: give public-works staff modern technology that makes their day safer, faster, and more cost-effective.

After earning a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Daniel worked on advanced satellite-communications research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and served as a systems engineer in the Raytheon Missiles & Defense group.  Those roles honed the mapping, sensing, and data-fusion skills he would bring to Cyvl.

In 2021 he co-founded Cyvl and has since raised more than $10 million in venture funding, assembled a Boston-based team of engineers and former city staff, and deployed Cyvl’s 3-D mapping and AI platform across 300-plus government agencies—from rural towns to America’s largest cities.  His work earned him a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Enterprise Technology.

Daniel still measures success the way road crews do: lane-miles improved, hazards removed, and taxpayer dollars stretched further than the year before.  When he isn’t in the field with customers, you’ll find him at a whiteboard planning the next breakthrough in data-driven infrastructure management.

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B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute