Investing in the companies that change how America builds and maintains its transportation infrastructure.

The TIDe Fund is a planned investment vehicle, affiliated with Infrastructure Ventures and being organized to back early-stage companies whose technology makes highways, bridges, rail, and transit safer, more efficient, and more sustainable to deliver, and to bring them the one thing capital alone cannot: a path into the agencies and contractors that buy.

Thesis

Transportation infrastructure is becoming a technology market. The winners will be the companies that understand how it buys.

Public and private investment in the nation's infrastructure is at a generational high, and the shift to digital delivery is happening in front of us. What has not changed is how state DOTs, owners, and contractors adopt new technology: through their own champions, procurement paths, and peer networks. TIDe sits at the intersection of public policy, industry expertise, and technology, and invests where those three meet.

Collaboration
Companies that help public and private stakeholders work together across the life of a transportation asset, from planning through long-term management.
Efficiency
Technology that cuts cost, shortens project timelines, and raises productivity in design, construction, and asset management.
Safety
Innovations that protect workers and the traveling public and reduce crashes and fatalities on America's roadways and work zones.
Sustainability
Solutions that reduce environmental impact and build resilience, including low-carbon materials and the tools to measure and manage them.

Beyond capital

What a portfolio company gets that a check cannot buy.

Strategic guidance from people who have run the federal and state agencies that buy, and who have built and sold companies into this market.

Introductions into a network of state DOTs, contractors, technology partners, and industry associations, used deliberately and at the right moment in a company's growth.

Access to IV Strategies, the advisory practice of our affiliate Infrastructure Ventures, for market navigation and federal policy work as a company scales.

Team

Gregory G. Nadeau

Co-Founder

35 years of senior leadership in transportation infrastructure. Former Federal Highway Administrator and architect of the Every Day Counts innovation platform for state DOTs.

Nicholas M. Nadeau, PMP

Co-Founder

Nick has worked in the infrastructure business since 2011, with a focus on business operations, process improvement, and program delivery in both Fortune 500 and startup settings.

Matthew J. Valle

Co-Founder

25 years in heavy civil construction. Led M&A for the largest division of CRH North America, then spent five years scaling a construction-technology startup used across roughly 40 state DOTs.

Affiliated with

Infrastructure Ventures

Shared founders · Separate brand and, when established, a separate entity

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Building something for this market?

We talk to founders early, often before a round is open. A short note on what you are building and who your first customers are is the best way to start. We reply within two business days.

Email us

tide@infrastructureventures.vc

The TIDe Fund is in formation and has not yet been established as an entity. This page describes our investment thesis and team; it is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, and no fund is currently accepting commitments. Fund terms, when available, are provided only to qualified investors on request.