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This former PG&E engineer is building a 'Google Maps for the underground' | TechCrunch

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The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s buried underground. “I had a job that got shut down because a pipe was in the excavation [that] we didn’t know about. Fortunately, we saw it before we impacted it,” he told TechCrunch. “But then there was this three-day ordeal of running around [asking] like: ‘Whose pipe is this? Can we tap it? Can we not? What’s in it?’” Mackanic eventually got the answer, but it took three days, a delay that cost $60,000. Despite being one of the…

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