MyCrane Named Start-Up of the Year at Construction Technology Awards in Dubai

The annual awards celebrate the most impactful digital transformation in the built environment across the Middle East and Africa, with entries evaluated for innovation, traction, scalability and benefit realization.

Michael Roth

May 7, 2025

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[ABOVE: MyCrane founder Andrei Geikalo, right, receives award from Joe Joseph of ePROMIS]

MyCrane, the first global platform for online crane rental, has been named Startup of the Year at the Construction Technology Awards, held on May 1 in Dubai, UAE. The annual awards celebrate the most impactful digital transformation in the built environment across the Middle East and Africa, with entries evaluated for innovation, traction, scalability and benefit realization.

MyCrane received the award in recognition of its success in modernizing the crane rental industry, delivering a platform that streamlines the procurement of lifting equipment and improves outcomes for both customers and equipment providers. It acknowledges the strength of the testimonials supplied by MyCrane’s global users and equipment suppliers.

“This award affirms our commitment to introducing digital innovation in a sector that is now embracing new, more efficient ways of working,” said Andrei Geikalo, founder and CEO of MyCrane. “By providing a smart, efficient and transparent way to source cranes online, we are helping companies complete their projects faster, more cost-effectively and with less environmental impact.”

Founded in 2021, MyCrane is headquartered in Dubai with regional operations in India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Since launch, the platform has attracted more than 1,700 registered crane rental companies offering in excess of 14,000 cranes—giving customers access to what is effectively the largest crane fleet in the world.

MyCrane clients can easily submit details of their lifting requirements via the platform to receive personalized quotes from verified suppliers, avoiding the need for multiple manual enquiries. The company also operates an online marketplace for buying and selling new and used lifting equipment. MyCrane’s success at the 2025 CTF Awards places the company among the construction industry’s most forward-thinking innovators.

The CTF Startup of the Year Award adds to a growing list of honors for MyCrane, which was also recognized earlier this year with the Global Platform for Innovative Online Crane Rental prize at India’s EPC World Awards.

For more information, visit: www.my-crane.com
Event details: https://ctf-awards.com/Shortlist-2024/startup-of-the-year

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.