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Vikas Murali is the co-founder and CEO of Offsight, a San Francisco software company that gives prefab, modular and offsite construction factories real-time visibility into production, quality, materials and labor. A University of Pennsylvania systems engineer who cut his teeth shipping enterprise software at Texas Instruments and Barclays, Murali spent years as a consultant watching engineered-to-order manufacturers run multimillion-dollar projects on brittle spreadsheets. In 2020 he and co-founder Andrew Xue built Offsight to replace those spreadsheets with mobile-first tracking, betting that the factories building the future of housing need to prove they actually deliver on speed, cost and quality.
Stratus is a cloud-based BIM-to-fabrication platform built for MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) contractors. It connects the digital model - Revit, AutoCAD and Autodesk Fabrication - to the prefab shop and the field, handling spooling, smart labeling, bend sheets, weld maps, material tracking and real-time productivity metrics so trade contractors can move from design to installed pipe, duct and conduit with less waste and fewer manual handoffs. Developed by GTP Software, Inc. (formerly GTP Services), Stratus serves large mechanical and sheet-metal contractors across North America and raised a $32M Series B in 2025.
Eano is a San Mateo-based construction technology company building an all-in-one software platform for general contractors and remodelers. Started in 2019 by Stella Wu as a home-renovation services business, it pivoted into SaaS - Eano Pro - that bundles AI-powered estimates, proposals, CRM, payments, scheduling, and project management so small and mid-sized contractors can run more jobs without losing control of communication, budgets, or client experience.
GreenLite is a construction technology company that pairs AI with licensed experts to speed up building permits. Its platform ingests plan sets, flags code violations, and surfaces jurisdiction-specific guidance from the largest proprietary compliance comment library in the U.S., cutting permitting timelines from 90-120+ days down to roughly 21-45 days. Through AI-powered Private Plan Review, third-party experts backed by GreenLite software perform official code compliance reviews in place of overloaded city departments. Founded in 2022 by ex-Gopuff executives James Gallagher and Ben Allen, GreenLite serves national retailers, REITs, quick-service restaurants, banks, and home builders, and has raised about $86M total, including a $49.5M Series B led by Insight Partners in September 2025.
James Gallagher is the CEO and co-founder of GreenLite, a New York based construction technology company that pairs AI with licensed architects, engineers, and former regulators to deliver code-compliant building permits in days rather than months. A former Marine infantry and intelligence officer who deployed to Afghanistan, Gallagher spent a decade scaling the physical footprints of venture-backed companies like Gopuff, Bandit, and Good Uncle before realizing that permitting was the real bottleneck holding builders back. He founded GreenLite in 2022 with fellow Gopuff alum Ben Allen, and has since raised $86M across three rounds, including a $49.5M Series B led by Insight Partners in September 2025.
PermitFlow is a New York-based construction technology company building an AI platform that automates the permitting lifecycle - from jurisdiction research and application prep to submission, tracking, inspections, and license management. Founded in 2021 by Francis Thumpasery and Samuel Lam, the company says its software has powered more than $20 billion in construction value and cuts approval times roughly in half for builders like Lennar, Amazon, IKEA, and Toll Brothers. It raised a $54M Series B led by Accel in December 2025, bringing total funding to about $90.5M.
Salman Ahmad is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic, a Phoenix-based, tech-enabled general contractor reinventing how build-to-rent homes get planned and built. He grew up in a construction household, then stacked degrees in computer science from Arizona State, Stanford, and a PhD from MIT before deciding the most interesting unsolved software problem was the most analog industry there is: pouring foundations and framing walls. Mosaic's software platform, Mosaic Hub, coordinates contractors, schedules, and payments so homebuilders can offload construction the way startups offloaded servers to AWS.
Francis Thumpasery is the co-founder and CEO of PermitFlow, a New York-based startup using AI to drag construction permitting out of the fax-machine era. After a Harvard economics degree, a stint at McKinsey, and years investing in workflow software, he watched relatives outside Washington, DC wrestle with permits and decided the $1.6 trillion construction industry deserved better software. Since 2021 PermitFlow has powered over $20B in construction value, raised $90.5M, and turned a famously paper-bound process into something measured in days instead of months.
Eishay Smith is the CEO and Board Member of Versatile, a construction technology company that puts AI-powered intelligence into cranes to give builders real-time visibility over production rates and project progress. A computer scientist by training, he co-founded Kifi (acquired by Google in 2016), led engineering at Netflix, LinkedIn, Wealthfront, and Carbon Health, before joining Versatile as CTO and GM in Israel - eventually taking the top job in early 2024. Based in Timrat, Israel, he runs a company that has raised $110.5M in funding and is redefining how construction sites are measured, managed, and controlled.
Tessa Lau is the founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics, a Mountain View-based company that builds autonomous mobile robots for the construction industry. Her FieldPrinter robot uses building information model (BIM) data to print layout lines directly onto jobsite floors with 1/16-inch accuracy, replacing manual chalk-line methods that have dominated construction for centuries. Lau holds a PhD in machine learning from the University of Washington and spent 11 years at IBM Research before pivoting to robotics at Willow Garage and co-founding hotel-delivery-robot company Savioke. She launched Dusty Robotics in 2018, has raised $69.5 million including a $45 million Series B, and has helped contractors print over 100 million square feet of layout across thousands of buildings.
OpenSpace is a San Francisco-based construction technology company that turns 360-degree video walks of jobsites into AI-powered, navigable visual records pinned to floor plans. Its software stitches site captures into a Google Street View-style digital twin so general contractors can see every corner of a build, track progress, resolve disputes, and coordinate with BIM - without flying anyone to the site.
Jeevan Kalanithi is the co-founder and CEO of OpenSpace, a San Francisco-based construction technology company that has mapped over 50 billion square feet of job sites across 125 countries using AI-powered 360-degree visual intelligence. A Stanford Symbolic Systems grad and MIT Media Lab alum who played in an indie rock band before building award-winning smart toys exhibited at MoMA, Kalanithi brought the same obsessive product craft to construction — an industry he stumbled into while helping ship drones at 3D Robotics. OpenSpace has raised ~$200M and counts 62% of the ENR Top 400 general contractors as customers.

Michael Ding is the founder and CEO of Bobyard, an AI platform that uses computer vision to automate construction takeoffs and estimates. A Stanford-trained engineer and award-winning mathematician who grew up in Cupertino, he earned his California general contractor license as a teenager before dropping out of Stanford to launch Bobyard in 2023. By teaching machines to read blueprints the way an experienced estimator would, he's helped hundreds of contractors cut takeoff time by 65% and add over $1M in annual revenue per estimator. In December 2025, Bobyard raised a $35 million Series A led by 8VC, cementing its position as the leading AI platform for construction preconstruction workflows.