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Constrafor puts a price on the wait to get paid
The construction fintech pairs contracts and insurance checks with cash for approved invoices. Its wager: a better back office can keep a building site moving.
TEAM Software turns the night shift into numbers that add up
A guard clocks in. An invoice goes out. TEAM Software by WorkWave connects the work between those moments - and makes a persuasive case for giving the spreadsheet a night off.
Global Shop Solutions: The factory’s missing piece is information
A manufacturer can own exquisite machines and still lose money looking for parts. Global Shop Solutions has spent 50 years connecting the shop floor to the accounts - and its customer stories reveal how much of the work happens before anyone clicks a button.
Agave Built the Pipes Before It Turned On the AI
Construction's back office runs on software old enough to have a mortgage. Agave's clever move was not to replace it, but to teach it how to talk - then put AI to work on the conversation.
Joblogic wants to close the gap between job done and invoice paid
A repair can be finished long before the paperwork is. Joblogic has built a business around that delay, and more than £100 million in fresh backing is financing its next move.
CMap and the high cost of spreadsheet hell
A growing professional services firm can win the work and still lose the margin. CMap connects the quote, the people and the invoice - and is betting its next chapter on AI that knows the business.
Xpedeon Put the Whole Construction Back Office on One Screen
Construction runs on thin margins and thick piles of paperwork. Xpedeon’s three-decade wager is that the site, the supply chain and the finance office should stop arguing from different spreadsheets.
Eque2 Turned Construction's Spreadsheet Headache Into a £30.8 Million Business
The Maidenhead software maker connects estimates, contracts and accounts before the numbers wander off into separate spreadsheets - a practical niche now serving more than 3,000 construction businesses.
The Machine Shop That Fired Its ERP - Then Sold the Shop to Build a Better One
ProShop began as a survival tool inside a growing CNC business. Now more than 700 manufacturers use its all-in-one system to quote work, guide the floor, prove quality and remember what their best machinists know.
BuildOps Put a Billion-Dollar Price on the Contractor’s Messy Back Office
Commercial contractors kept hospitals cold and data centers humming while their own businesses ran on spreadsheets, texts, and software sprawl. BuildOps turned that mismatch into a vertical SaaS company valued at $1 billion - but the real test happens during the three-month slog of changing how a shop works.
Fingercheck Wants to Turn Every Clock-In Into a Paycheck - Without the Payroll Spreadsheets
Fingercheck started with a digital time clock. Now it is chasing a larger prize: making the messy handoff from shift to paycheck disappear for the small businesses legacy payroll software tends to overlook.
Adaptive
Adaptive is a New York-based fintech building an AI-native financial platform for the construction industry. It sits on top of QuickBooks to automate the money side of building projects - reading incoming bills, matching them to the right job and cost code, routing approvals, tracking budgets and draws, managing vendor compliance, and processing payments. Founded in 2021 by Matt Calvano, Henry Bradlow, and Francisco Enriquez, the company serves custom homebuilders, general contractors, developers, and specialty trades, and raised a $19M Series A led by Emergence Capital in 2024.
Knowify
Knowify is a New York-based cloud software company that helps trade and specialty contractors run the financial and project sides of their business in one system. Built around deep QuickBooks integration, it covers estimating, contracts, change orders, job costing, AIA progress billing, certified payroll, scheduling and field time tracking - aimed at small and mid-size subcontractors who have historically been underserved by enterprise tools built for large general contractors.
Trayd
Trayd is a New York-based back-office operating system built for specialty trade contractors, unifying payroll, HR, compliance, scheduling and real-time labor tracking in one platform. It automates the hardest parts of construction pay - union rules, Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, multi-state taxes and certified payroll - cutting weekly processing from 14 hours to 27 minutes while giving workers earned wages days sooner. Founded in 2021 by Anna Berger and Cara Kessler and backed by Y Combinator, Suffolk Technologies and White Star Capital, Trayd has grown revenue 600% year over year.
Marc Visent
Marc Visent is the co-founder and CEO of Knowify, a New York-based cloud software company that helps trade contractors and small construction businesses run job costing, project management, billing, and accounting in one place. A trained computer engineer and lawyer turned software entrepreneur, he started Knowify in 2012 with Daniel de Roulet Jr. and has grown it into a platform used by thousands of contractors, an Intuit QuickBooks partner, and a 2025 Inc. 5000 honoree.
OneCrew
OneCrew is a San Francisco vertical-SaaS startup building the all-in-one operating system for asphalt and concrete paving contractors. Its platform stitches together CRM, estimating, scheduling, dispatch, field data entry, job costing, invoicing, integrated payments and a customer portal so paving businesses can run everything from lead to invoice in one place. Founded in 2021 by Ari Bleemer and Max Kostow, OneCrew has raised roughly $11.7M and reports customers seeing faster estimates and higher revenue after adopting the software.
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.