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Holcim
Holcim is trying to turn the oldest ingredients in construction into a newer kind of business - one that sells lower-carbon materials, recycles yesterday’s buildings and captures the emissions its kilns cannot yet avoid.
BASE4 - Architects, Engineers, Designers
A Boca Raton firm decided architecture should behave more like a factory than an atelier - so it wired together designers on four continents into a 24-hour workday and pointed the whole thing at one goal: build faster and cheaper.
KOKI Group
The century-old business behind HiKOKI, Metabo and Metabo HPT is turning batteries, brands and old-school engineering into one global system for the people who build things.
Trimble Inc.
Trimble began by betting on satellite navigation before GPS was a household acronym. Today its harder trick is making a construction site, a 3D model and a freight office behave like parts of the same system.
Novade Solutions
Novade Solutions is a Singapore-based construction technology company that builds smart field management software for the building and infrastructure industry. Its mobile-first platform digitizes and automates on-site processes - quality control, safety inspections, site diaries, progress reporting, defect management and equipment maintenance - so contractors, developers and owners can capture what happens in the field and turn it into data managers can act on. Founded in 2014 by former Autodesk executive Denis Branthonne, Novade is used across roughly 25 countries and more than 10,000 sites, serving general contractors, real estate developers, trade contractors, home builders and government departments.
WakeCap
WakeCap is a construction-technology company that puts a small IoT sensor into standard safety helmets to give project owners live, site-wide visibility into workforce, safety, productivity and progress. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Hassan Albalawi and Ishita Sood, the company runs a wireless mesh network that works without GPS, cellular or Wi-Fi and feeds field data into a single owner's dashboard. Its technology has been deployed across roughly $80 billion of active projects - including Aramco, NEOM, Qiddiya and King Salman Park - and has tracked more than 150 million labor hours. WakeCap raised a $28M Series A in 2025 and operates from Riyadh, Dubai and San Francisco.
Daniel Blank
Daniel Blank is the CEO and co-founder of Toggle, a construction robotics company he started in New York in 2016 to bring manufacturing methods to the built environment, beginning with the fabrication and assembly of steel rebar for reinforced concrete. A designer by training who spent a decade running a design agency, Blank re-imagined the one-off construction process as a repeatable product-manufacturing process after watching workers tie thousands of steel bars by hand at a wind farm. Toggle has raised roughly $15 million from investors including Point72 Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Blackhorn Ventures and Mark Cuban, and has since expanded into automated quality control for custom fabricators under the Toggle QC banner.
4M Analytics
4M Analytics is an AI-powered utility mapping company that compiles millions of scattered public utility records, satellite imagery, and legacy blueprints into a single continuously updated digital map of what lies above and below ground. Its Utility AI Platform gives civil engineers, contractors, and departments of transportation instant, verifiable subsurface data to plan safer, faster infrastructure projects and avoid costly excavation strikes.
AI Clearing
AI Clearing is an Austin- and Warsaw-based construction technology company that turns drone imagery and site data into automated progress tracking, quality control, and field intelligence for large infrastructure projects. Its AI-native platform ingests drone flights, CAD/BIM designs, schedules, and mobile field data into a single source of truth, delivering analyzed progress reports typically within hours rather than weeks. Serving contractors, asset owners, and lenders on utility-scale solar, energy transmission, roads, railways, and earthworks, the company raised a $14M Series A in 2023 and was the first technology firm in the world to certify its AI management system against ISO 42001.
Canibuild
Canibuild is an AI-powered site-planning platform that answers construction's first question - can I build here? Builders, contractors and developers use it to check a site's feasibility, zoning, setbacks and utilities, generate 3D site plans and produce branded quotes in under 60 seconds. Founded in Sydney in 2020, the platform covers Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada and has run more than 4 million site assessments.
Dextall
Dextall is a New York-founded construction technology company that pairs proprietary design software with factory-built, unitized prefabricated exterior wall panels for mid- and high-rise buildings. Its platform turns architectural concepts into fabrication-ready models and delivers a modular facade system manufactured by regional partners, cutting design-to-install timelines and on-site labor while improving building energy performance. The company raised a $15M Series A in July 2025 to expand its AI-powered prefab platform and address the housing crisis.
Jones
Jones is a New York-based vertical AI software company that automates insurance compliance for commercial real estate and construction. Its platform collects Certificates of Insurance (COIs), endorsements and policies, verifies coverage against requirements using AI agents, chases down gaps with vendors and tenants, and integrates bi-directionally with property and construction ERP systems. Founded in 2017 by Omri Stern and Michael Rudman, Jones manages insurance risk across roughly 2.7 billion square feet of properties and construction projects.
Moab
Moab is a New York-based software company building a modern, AI-native operating system for equipment rental and dealership businesses. It replaces decades-old legacy ERP systems with a single platform spanning inventory, orders and billing, service and repairs, dispatch, and accounting - targeting the roughly $2 trillion construction economy that still runs on on-premise software. Founded by Charles Soll (ex-Uber) and Patrick Anderson (ex-Ramp), Moab launched from stealth in February 2026 with $16M raised across Seed and Series A rounds led by Elad Gil, with Ironspring Ventures.
OnsiteIQ
OnsiteIQ is a New York-based construction intelligence platform that combines 360-degree high-resolution site imagery with proprietary computer vision and AI to give real estate owners, developers, and lenders a verifiable view of what is happening on their job sites. Founded in 2017 by civil-engineering PhD Ardalan Khosrowpour, the company captures weekly imagery across thousands of active projects, maps it to floor plans and schedules, and turns it into progress, risk, and delay analytics so stakeholders can catch problems early and reduce costly disputes.
Rebar
Rebar is a New York-based vertical AI company building hyper-specialized estimating software for commercial HVAC equipment suppliers. Its proprietary computer vision models read construction blueprints and spec books, identify and count HVAC equipment, and generate a bill of materials and quote - cutting takeoff time by roughly 60-70%. Founded in October 2024 by Evan Brown and Andrew Schwartz, Rebar raised a $14M Series A led by Prudence in March 2026 and plans to expand into plumbing and electrical.
Snaptrude
Snaptrude is a cloud-based, AI-native design platform for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) teams. It lets architects move from a brief to a BIM-ready model inside one connected, browser-based workspace - handling site analysis, space programming, massing, BIM modeling and presentation while staying interoperable with legacy tools like Revit, Rhino and Archicad. Founded in 2017 by Altaf Ganihar and backed by Foundamental and Accel, Snaptrude positions itself as a modern, collaborative alternative to design software largely built in the late 1990s.
TraceAir Technologies
TraceAir Technologies is a Seattle-based construction-technology company that turns drone and LiDAR data into a site-intelligence platform for land developers and homebuilders. Founded in 2015, its software captures ground surveys, runs cut-and-fill and earthwork analysis, generates stormwater and grading reports, and gives executives portfolio-wide visibility from land acquisition through vertical construction. The platform is used by many of the largest U.S. homebuilders, including D.R. Horton, Lennar, Howard Hughes and Meritage Homes, and raised a $25M Series B in 2024.
Ivan Lvov
Ivan Lvov is the CEO of TraceAir Technologies, a Seattle-founded construction site intelligence platform that uses drone data and AI to help homebuilders and land developers measure, verify, and manage grading and earthwork from land acquisition through finished lots. He joined TraceAir in 2016 as Chief Strategy Officer and stepped into the CEO role in September 2025, succeeding co-founder Maria Khokhlova. Before TraceAir he spent years scaling a digital mapping and navigation franchise (2GIS) to 16 offices and 450 employees, and he holds an MSx degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jason Ballard
Jason Ballard is the co-founder and CEO of ICON, an Austin-based construction technology company that uses large-scale 3D printing, robotics, and advanced materials to build homes faster and more affordably. A biology graduate and former sustainable-building entrepreneur, Ballard printed the first permitted 3D-printed home in the United States in 2018 and has since pushed ICON toward delivering entire communities of printed homes while developing an off-world construction system for NASA to build on the Moon and Mars.
Aditazz, Inc.
Aditazz is a Silicon Valley technology company that borrows the automated, rule-based workflows of semiconductor chip design and applies them to the design and construction of complex buildings. Its SaaS platform captures human engineering and architectural expertise as design rules, then uses algorithms and digital twins to generate, simulate and optimize building layouts before a single wall is built. Founded in 2010 by chip designer Deepak Aatresh and architect Zigmund Rubel, the company first targeted healthcare facilities - winning Kaiser Permanente's 'Small Hospital, Big Idea' competition - and has since applied its methods to hospitals, labs, and other infrastructure across the U.S., China and India.
Outbuild
Outbuild is a construction scheduling and planning platform that combines master scheduling, lookahead planning, weekly work plans, and analytics in one integrated, AI-assisted tool. Built to close the gap between the office and the jobsite, it lets general contractors and field teams build and update schedules, track commitments, and remove roadblocks so projects finish on time. Founded in 2021 and led by CEO Franco Giaquinto, the company is fully remote and has raised an $11M Series A led by Sway Ventures.
Siteline
Siteline is a San Francisco software company that builds billing software specifically for commercial trade contractors (subcontractors). Its platform centralizes pay applications, lien waivers, compliance documents, accounts receivable reporting, and cash flow forecasting so subcontractors can get paid faster and cut the manual paperwork that clogs construction payments. Founded in 2019, Siteline says it has tracked more than $14 billion in receivables across 250,000+ projects and helps customers bill roughly 6x faster.
Skycatch
Skycatch is a San Francisco drone-data company that turns aerial imagery into centimeter-accurate 3D and 4D models of mines, construction sites, and energy facilities. Founded in 2013 by Christian Sanz and Christopher Bumgardner, it pairs custom DJI-built drones and on-site edge computers with a cloud photogrammetry engine and AI to give industrial operators near-real-time maps of the physical world. Backed by Google Ventures, Komatsu, Autodesk, and others, Skycatch was acquired by Caterpillar in July 2026 to strengthen its data-driven mining technology portfolio.
Timothy Cocaro
Timothy Cocaro is the founder and CEO of Canibuild, an AI-powered instant site feasibility platform that lets builders and homeowners check in seconds whether a house, granny flat, pool or shed can go on a block of land - collapsing weeks of surveying, drafting and estimating into a single click. A builder by trade with a computer science degree from the University of Sydney, Cocaro spent two decades running RESCON Builders, Australia's largest dedicated granny-flat company, before turning his own construction frustrations into software in 2019. Canibuild raised an AUD 8 million Series A led by EVP in 2022, grew to thousands of daily users across Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and was named #1 in Real Estate at the Google Maps Platform Awards 2025.
Aecore
Aecore is a technology-enabled commercial general contractor based in San Jose, California, with a second office in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded by Casey Bell and Anthony Cirinelli and backed by Y Combinator (S17) and CEMEX Ventures, the company pairs an in-house team of designers, project managers, and software engineers with proprietary project-management software to deliver corporate interiors, life-sciences labs, retail buildouts, and building renovations. Its pitch is simple: run construction like a software company, with real-time schedules, transparent budgets, and weekly photo updates so clients always know where their project stands.
AICrete Corp.
AICrete Corp. is a Richmond, California company building AICreteOS, the first AI-powered operating system for the concrete and aggregates industry. Founded by UC Berkeley PhD Parham Aghdasi, it unifies quality control and operations - connecting batch, dispatch and truck data into one platform - to cut concrete costs by over $3 per cubic yard and reduce CO2 by an average of 42 lbs per cubic yard. The company raised over $9 million in seed funding led by Clear Ventures.
Alquist 3D
Alquist 3D is a Greeley, Colorado-based construction technology company that uses robotic 3D concrete printing to build homes, commercial buildings, and infrastructure. Founded in 2020 by Zachary Mannheimer, the company completed one of the first 3D-printed Habitat for Humanity homes in the U.S. and printed an ~8,000-square-foot addition to a Walmart in Athens, Tennessee - billed as the largest 3D-printed commercial structure in the country. In late 2025 it announced a landmark deal to print more than a dozen Walmart and retail buildings, positioning itself to commercialize 3D concrete printing at national scale.
Foundation
Foundation is a buyer experience platform for homebuilders - often described as 'Shopify for Homebuilders.' It brings the shopping, purchasing, and owning of a newly built home online through white-labeled buyer apps, an operator control center, and warranty tooling, so builders can sell more homes more efficiently to happier customers. Founded in 2023 by former Opendoor operators, it went through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch.
Primepoint
Primepoint is a San Mateo-based construction intelligence company whose AI reads and understands construction drawings the way an experienced project team does. Founded in 2024 by computer-vision pioneer Lubomir Bourdev and product veteran Hamid Palo, it builds a proprietary knowledge graph that links every drawing element - down to the tag level - to its schedule, specification, and related documents, then layers a natural-language assistant named Marvin on top so teams can ask project questions in plain English. The platform automates the manual, error-prone work of constructability reviews, RFI drafting, submittal comparison, and drawing overlays, flagging conflicts before they become field problems. Primepoint closed a $10M seed round in April 2026.
Jay Martin
Jay Martin is the CEO of AlignOps, the Denver-based SaaS company building a single operations platform for the construction industry out of four acquired products: ToolWatch asset management, Safety Reports compliance, busybusy time tracking, and FleetWatcher fleet and materials management. A first-generation American who grew up working on his immigrant father's dairy farm in rural New York, Martin brings 25 years of technology leadership and more than a decade inside private-equity-backed companies, including COO roles at EagleView and Aquasana and earlier leadership at Sungard Availability Services and Dell. He is candid about rejecting corporate conformity, hiring for grit and intellectual curiosity, and his belief that continuously delivering customer value is the only durable moat.