Real-Time Resilience
As climate risks intensify and the window to cap global warming at 1.5°C closes, the need to adapt our ageing built environment to extreme events is becoming more pressing. Timezyx, a Vancouver-based cleantech startup, is tackling this challenge by providing cities, infrastructure owners, and building managers with a living structural simulation through a digital twin. This digital twin is seamlessly connected to physical structures and updates itself from multiple data sources to represent its real-world counterpart. By doing so, Timezyx helps insurers assess the insurability conditions of structures and develop custom insurance solutions for extreme events — including floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes — while enabling infrastructure owners to reduce the risk of structural failure.
Timezyx offers real-time structural digital twin computation and visualization services, predicting how buildings and infrastructure respond to extreme events. Their flagship service, the Digital Twin Lab, stands out in building and infrastructure risk assessment by combining health monitoring data with real-time computations for a complete view of assets. It accommodates assets of any size, from city-scale building simulations to network-scale bridge simulations, ensuring resilience and longevity while reducing long-term maintenance costs. Additionally, their Digital Twin Lab provides reliable infrastructure condition assessments, verifiable scenario analysis, and aligns with Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices.
Twin it to Win it
Timezyx has made significant strides over the last three years, including launching their groundbreaking Digital Twin Lab, which performs computations 1000 times faster than existing solutions. As creators of the first high-fidelity structural digital twin for bridge infrastructure, they’ve begun to attract the attention of industry’s top players and researchers. This includes a partnership with Stanford University to further pioneer risk assessment solutions in infrastructure management. As the company continues to grow, they’re hoping to use this year’s New Ventures BC Competition to access mentorship, funding, and exposure from being named one of the province’s top startups.
Looking ahead, the digital tech startup aims to identify and target the right customer segments, develop a robust go-to-market strategy, and build effective customer acquisition channels. They plan to form strategic partnerships with companies, investors, and industry leaders to enhance their product offerings and advance their ambitious vision of transforming infrastructure management.
From Ivy Leagues to the Big Leagues
The experiences of Timezyx’s co-founders at MIT and Harvard University significantly influenced their journey and led them to start their own company. CEO and CTO, Dr. Kamyab Zandi, conducted postdoctoral research at MIT on large-scale simulations of concrete structures, while Dr. Adele Khavari, CFO and COO, focused on material science research at Harvard. Their exposure to entrepreneurial thinking and hands-on problem-solving shaped their leadership and innovation approach, inspiring them to create Timezyx. This strong foundation in research and innovation positions Timezyx for sustained success as they transform how cities and infrastructure adapt to climate related challenges.
About the Founders
Kamyab Zandi, CEO, CTO & Co-Founder
Fun Fact: Dr. Zandi has been recognized through multiple national and international awards.
Adele Khavari, CFO, COO & Co-Founder
Fun Fact: Adele completed her PhD in three continents, four cities, and five universities.
Company Cheatsheet:
City: Vancouver
Founded: May 27, 2021
Sector: Cleantech; Construction
