“Relocating our tech startup to St. Louis has led to many opportunities to collaborate with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on a variety of projects. The funding from Arch Grants helped us relocate and set up an office at T-REX’s Geospatial Innovation Center. There, we were able to attend events that the NGA was hosting and present some of the technology that we were actively developing, which caught the attention of stakeholders within the NGA. They gave us the opportunity to have our work evaluated by professional geospatial users in realistic scenarios and environments and get feedback on how we could improve the usability of the software. Furthermore, many of the best geospatial services contractors have offices in Saint Louis, so being here has allowed us to get in touch with them and become a subcontractor on some of their government contracts as well. Building these relationships has been a primary growth driver for us!”

— Akash Vidyadharan, CTO, InfraLytiks