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The VC That Bet the Cost Curve of a Building Can Bend
Two lifelong construction-tech investors raised $148 million, then handed their startups something rarer than money - a rolodex of the general contractors, builders, and design firms who become their first customers.
FlowManual
FlowManual is an AI platform for the back office of construction contractors. It reads specs, contracts, quotes, and invoices and automatically marks up scope, prices, deadlines, and exclusions, then compares bids against signed contracts and invoices against locked buyout prices to flag every scope change and price drift by severity and dollar impact. Founded in 2026 by Harvard dropouts David Shijoon Bae and Michael Lin, the company is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch and aims to cut the repetitive manual work of pre-construction so contractors can bid more and deliver at a higher standard.
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.
PlanRadar
PlanRadar is a Vienna-based SaaS platform that digitizes construction and real estate project management. Its mobile and web apps let site teams pin defect and task tickets directly onto digital plans and BIM models, capture photos, video and voice notes, assign work, and generate reports - replacing paper checklists and scattered spreadsheets. Founded in 2013, it serves more than 170,000 users across 75+ countries.
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.
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.
TestFit
TestFit is a Dallas-based real estate feasibility platform that uses configurator and generative-design algorithms to turn a raw parcel into a buildable site plan, unit mix, parking layout, cost estimate and pro forma in minutes instead of weeks. Founded in 2016 by Clifton Harness and Ryan Griege, it serves developers, architects, contractors, civil engineers and municipalities evaluating multifamily, industrial, retail and mixed-use projects, and has raised $22M including a $20M Series A in 2022.
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.
Veyor
Veyor is a cloud-based construction logistics platform - often called the 'Uber Eats of construction' - that digitizes how large building sites and facilities schedule deliveries, coordinate materials, manage loading docks and enforce site access and compliance. Founded in Sydney in 2017 and now expanding across the United States from Austin, Veyor connects contractors, suppliers, drivers and facility managers on a single live schedule to cut congestion, wait times and paperwork on complex projects.
Clearstory
Clearstory is a cloud-based change order communication platform for commercial construction. It gives general contractors, specialty contractors and project owners a shared, real-time system to create, price, track and align on change orders and time-and-material (T&M) tags - the extra work that traditionally gets buried in email, PDFs and spreadsheets. Founded in 2018 as Extracker and rebranded to Clearstory in 2023, the company runs a business network where contractors exchange roughly $1B in change orders every month, and counts many of North America's largest general contractors as customers.
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.
AlignOps
AlignOps is a Colorado-based construction operations software company that unifies tool and asset tracking, workforce time tracking, jobsite safety and compliance, and fleet/materials management into a single platform. Formed in 2024 by consolidating four established construction-tech brands - ToolWatch, busybusy, Safety Reports, and FleetWatcher - AlignOps helps thousands of contractors gain real-time visibility into where their tools, crews, equipment, and money are going across warehouses and jobsites.
Bundle
Bundle is an Oakland-based, AI-powered materials procurement platform built for design and construction teams. It lets builders and suppliers quote, buy, and manage construction materials from initial quote through delivery in a single system - offering a live catalog of 50,000+ products, multi-supplier quote comparison, delivery tracking, a reusable materials library, and automated reordering. Founded in 2021 by Stanford MBA classmates Janna Colucci and Edison Ding, Bundle targets the SMB residential and ADU segment, aiming to run purchasing 10x faster and cut material costs 10-20%.
Offsight
Offsight is a San Francisco software company building a project management and production platform for the offsite construction, modular and prefab industry. Its mobile-first software helps factories and specialty contractors track production, quality, materials and labor in real time - replacing the spreadsheets that engineered-to-order manufacturers have long relied on. Founded in 2014 by Vikas Murali and Andrew Xue, the company raised a $2.5M seed round and counts large builders like Performance Contracting Inc., McCarthy Building Companies and Z Modular among its customers.
Roger
Roger (legally Iris Technologies) is a Salt Lake City-based construction-tech startup building an AI-powered collaboration workspace for construction project managers. By syncing with email tools like Microsoft Outlook and Gmail and layering on task boards, material trackers, and submittal logs, Roger turns the chaos of coordinating 50+ stakeholders into structured, trackable work. Its AI drafts follow-up emails, chases vendors on long-lead items, updates logs, and keeps details from slipping through the cracks - aiming to make every project run like a team's best project.
Stratus
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
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
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.
PermitFlow
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.
OpenSpace
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.