This veteran couldn’t share 3D scans of a burnt naval ship, so he created a startup that can

In the summer of 2020, a fire broke out onboard a naval ship docked in San Diego Bay. For more than four days, the USS Bonhomme Richard burned as helicopters dropped buckets of water from above, boats spewed water from below, and firefighters rushed onboard to control the blaze. Before the embers had even cooled, lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) scans were taken to assess how bad the damage was and to figure out how the fire even started. But the investigation was stalled, partially because of how hard it is to send lidar scans. The solution turned into Stitch3D, which was a top 20 finalist in TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield program.