RockMass CEO Shelby Yee, a geological engineer, founded RockMass with Matthew Gubasta, a fellow student at Canada's Queens University, in 2016 to digitize the industry. They're streamlining and improving data collected at underground mines, starting with rock mechanics and making historically dangerous mine work safer and more efficient. Some of the largest global mining companies have adopted the Toronto-based startup's flagship platform, called the Axis Mapper, and they've raised $3.1 million from SOSV, the Canadian government and others.

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