Fortune · October 19, 2025

Meet the Gen Z whiz kids working with AI to help governments repave your roads

Fortune profiled the team of twentysomethings transforming govtech — bootstrapping their way to a $14M Series A on a passion for redefining how governments manage roads and sidewalks.

FortuneOctober 19, 2025
CYVL CEO Daniel Pelaez, featured in Fortune
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In the heart of Somerville, Massachusetts — a hipster enclave outside Boston — a group of Gen Z tech prodigies is flipping the script on government infrastructure.

They're a team of twentysomethings who regularly pull long nights and early mornings. But what really fuels them isn't just competitive paychecks or bootstrapping their successful startup on the way to a $14 million Series A. Instead, it's a passion for transforming the world of govtech and redefining how governments manage and upgrade critical assets like roads and sidewalks.