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Queening The Pawn | Mallorie Brodie & Lauren Lake
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BRIDGIT
Bridgit’s mission is
simple – to help the
construction industry
maximize profits by
taking a people-first
approach.
THE PAWN
HOW BRIDGIT IS TAKING OVER THE
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.
MALLORIE BRODIE & LAUREN LAKE
NEXT 36, 2013
A
company that has grown to almost 90 employees
and raised over $40 million in venture capital,
Bridgit, a construction technology company, began
from nothing more than a gut feeling that there must
be some sort of opportunity to bring technology to
the construction industry. Lauren Lake, CEO & Co-Founder &
Mallorie Brodie, COO & Co-Founder, both come from families
with construction backgrounds. after connecting through the
Next 36 program, the two saw an opportunity to carry on their
families’ traditions. Today Lake & Brodie have developed the
leading workforce planning product in the general contractor
market, Bridgit.
“We didn’t know what that would specifically look like
because we didn’t know what the biggest pain points were in
the industry, so we decided to start with finding the problems
first.”
For the first 6 months of their business, they didn’t build any
product, intstead started researching through the adventures
of “crane hunting”, which essentially was two ambitious
women driving around and looking for cranes on the horizon
in order to locate construction sites. “Once we found a site,
we would put on our hard hats and steel-toed boots and walk
onto the site, looking for people who would be willing to talk
to us.”
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MALLORIE BRODIE
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Named in theTop 40 Under 40 in Canadian
Construction, Forbes Manufacturing & Industry 30
Under 30, and Best Of Canada Forbes Under 30
Innovators lists.
LAUREN LAKE
COO & CO-FOUNDER
Named in the TechWeek 100, Forbes Manufacturing
& Industry 30 Under 30, and Best Of Canada Forbes
Under 30 Innovators lists.
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