Suat Gedikli and Ryan Kottenstette founded Mountain View, California-based Cape in 2014. Kottenstette was previously a senior engineer at BMW, then a principal at Khosla, while Gedikli was a research engineer at robotics tech incubator Willow Garage.
Through partnerships with geospatial image providers, Cape obtains satellite images, then applies in-house algorithms to extract structured data, like whether a property has solar panels and the condition of a roof, and transform it into a structured property information database.