Bentley Activate Program

Bentley Activate

Building the future of digital twin technology

The Bentley Activate program fosters collaboration between Bentley and early-stage start-ups in the infrastructure software industry. The program helps the start-ups build on Bentley’s digital twin platform technology, shares our industry expertise, and supports their efforts with funding out of the Bentley Ventures fund.

Program benefits

Build with Bentley

Bentley is a world leader in the infrastructure software industry and brings our experience and industry knowledge to our partners and founders.

Gain market experience

The Bentley iTwin platform is our cloud-based digital twin platform for the next generation of infrastructure software.

A trusted name

We seek to work with our founders to help them build their expertise in the infrastructure software world and grow their business’s connections with industry leaders.

A trusted name

Partner with our ecosystem to build relationships with industry leaders and gain valuable insights from the infrastructure community.

Accelerate growth

Secure up to USD 250k in funding through a SAFE note from Bentley.

Bentley Activate cohort success

We are proud to support forward-looking startups like those selected for Bentley Activate—Asset Monitoring for Transportation cohort. This program empowers the design, construction, and operation of resilient transportation infrastructure through intelligent digital twin solutions.

Discover how these startups harnessed Bentley’s digital twin technology in the iTwin Platform to drive innovation in asset monitoring and create cutting-edge solutions. See how they bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds with their groundbreaking approaches.

Who should apply

Early-stage startups innovating in infrastructure—roads, rail, bridges, water, wastewater, or electric grid—using geospatial context.

Stay tuned for our next cohort announcement.

The Cross Product

The Cross Product (TCP) automates the processing of lidar data for railways and highways, performing tasks such as regression of track geometry at scale.

They built an integration with OpenRail, enabling users to access TCP’s regression at scale capabilities to support signaling projects and other large-scale projects involving hundreds or thousands of kilometers of railway.