bid-management
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Dodge Construction Network
Frederick W. Dodge once mapped Boston building sites from a bicycle and index cards. Today, his namesake company sells early signals across the commercial construction cycle - from the first permit whisper to the final award.
Procore Technologies
A carpenter who got tired of paper blueprints built the software the construction industry now runs on - and priced it so nobody has to pay per seat.
Responsive
Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is an AI-powered strategic response management platform that helps sales, proposal, and security teams answer RFPs, RFIs, security questionnaires, and due diligence requests faster and more accurately. Founded in 2015 in Beaverton, Oregon, it serves roughly 2,000 customers - including more than 20% of the Fortune 500 - and hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, combining a centralized content library with generative AI agents that draft and quality-check responses.
GovData
GovData is a Warrington-based public sector procurement consultancy that helps UK businesses - especially SMEs - win and manage places on government frameworks and contracts. Its team of bid strategists finds the right frameworks, builds winning strategies, and manages bids from conception to submission across pillars including IT, professional services, people and buildings. GovData reports a 97% framework success rate and says it has helped clients access more than £120 billion in government contract value, drawing on over 30 years of combined experience working inside and alongside bodies such as Crown Commercial Service and NHS Shared Business Services.
Boon
Boon builds AI agents that automate the paperwork-heavy back office of physical industries. Founded in 2023 by ex-Samsara product leader Deepti Yenireddy, the San Mateo company first launched a workflow platform for commercial fleets - handling order entry, load sourcing, compliance and fuel optimization - and has since pushed into construction, where its agents run preconstruction workflows from blueprint to bid, including takeoffs, clash detection and bid leveling. Boon raised $20.5M across seed and a $15.5M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures and Marathon in December 2024.
Pegbo
Pegbo is a Menlo Park construction-technology startup that gives preconstruction teams AI coworkers to source, engage, and vet trade partners. Its platform searches a database of more than one million verified subcontractors and suppliers - filterable by scope, location, NAICS code, union status, and certifications like MBE, DBE, and WBE - then automates outreach, bid-coverage tracking, document collection, and compliance so general contractors and project owners can hit supplier-diversity goals faster and with less busywork.
TrueBuilt
TrueBuilt is an AI-native, end-to-end preconstruction platform for general contractors and subcontractors. It uses computer vision and machine learning to speed up quantity takeoff, cost estimation, bid package management, subcontractor qualification, and document analysis - claiming takeoffs up to 70% faster with live, cloud-based collaboration. Founded in 2022 and based in Huntington Beach, California, the company raised a $4M seed round led by Bienville Capital with participation from Fifth Wall and construction firm Marek.
Jon Sibley
Jon Sibley is the Founder and CEO of TrueBuilt Software, an AI-native preconstruction platform headquartered in Huntington Beach, California. A former NCAA Division I water polo player at UC Berkeley and Team USA competitor, Sibley translated elite-sport discipline into enterprise software sales at Quid and Visa before founding TrueBuilt in July 2022. The company raised a $4 million seed round in 2023 led by Bienville Capital with participation from Fifth Wall, and in late 2025 acquired Capabuild — a mobile field documentation platform — driving a 124% revenue increase in three months post-close. TrueBuilt consolidates what was once a fragmented 6-8 tool preconstruction workflow into a single AI-powered platform serving general contractors and subcontractors.
Joveo
Joveo is a Menlo Park-based AI-powered recruitment marketing platform that helps employers, staffing agencies, and RPO firms attract and hire talent more efficiently. Founded in 2017 by Kshitij Jain, the platform manages programmatic job ad campaigns across 500+ job boards, social media, and search engines using AI-driven bid management and analytics. Joveo's suite — including Mojo Pro, Mojo Gro, Mojo Engage, and Mojo Go — covers the full hiring funnel from job distribution to candidate engagement, career site CMS, and unified analytics. The company has been on the Inc. 5000 list for four consecutive years and was named among the Top 25 AI Companies of 2025.
PlanHub
PlanHub is a cloud-based preconstruction platform that connects general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers during the bidding phase of construction projects. Built by contractors in 2008 and launched as a digital marketplace in 2015, it combines a nationwide network of 500,000+ construction professionals with bid management, project discovery, takeoff and estimation, and AI-driven tools so the right people find the right projects and win more work.
Parspec
Parspec is an AI-native software platform that automates product selection, quoting, and submittal preparation for distributors and sales agents in the construction supply chain. Founded in 2021 by Stanford researchers Forest Flager and Pratyush Havelia, the company indexes millions of manufacturer product documents and turns hours of manual paperwork into minutes. It has raised $31.5M to date and counts four of the five largest U.S. electrical distributors among its customers.
Christian Hugo
Christian Hugo is the CEO of GovData Services Limited, a Warrington-based consultancy he has led since 2006 that helps British businesses - especially SMEs - access the £378 billion annual UK government procurement market. With over 30 years in the public sector space, Hugo played a role in the creation of G-Cloud, the UK's largest IT procurement framework, and has helped clients win over £40 billion in public sector contracts. A co-founder of Govnet Communications in 1997, he has built GovData into a firm that has guided more than 1,800 businesses through government framework submissions across IT, professional services, people, and buildings and infrastructure.