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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2026. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Lylia ↗
In their words
What if I told you that you could mine your historical data of past projects and pricing to compete against the bigger guys?
a no is just a translation problem. That CEO was just saying no to a language he didn't speak
to build trust, sometimes you have to do things that don't scale, like show up in person
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Quick answers
What is Lylia Djait-Paulien's role at Tyce?
Co-founder and chief executive. Tyce's company page, checked 2026-10-13, lists her as CEO, Co-founder and Anuar Yeraliev as CTO, Co-founder. She told TechTO in October 2026 that she founded Tyce about a year earlier.
How did she win Tyce's first paid pilot?
A construction chief executive stopped her pitch to say his firm was not tech-forward. She asked what he cared about, which was winning projects, then showed his executives how the platform handled bids they had already made instead of demoing features (TechTO stage, October 2026).
How did four pilot users become a company-wide rollout?
She sat beside each user in person while her co-founder fixed issues in the background. She said those four users persuaded the leadership of a company of more than a hundred people to adopt Tyce (TechTO stage, October 2026).
Who has backed Tyce?
Tyce is in the 2026 Spring cohort of Formwork Labs, the construction-technology accelerator powered by Brick & Mortar Ventures. On stage she said a private equity firm that first declined later invested and became a distribution channel; she did not name it.