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 $25 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.

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute