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 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 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.
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 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.