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Acelab | Material Hub
Acelab is a New York-based AEC technology company building an AI-powered Material Hub for the architecture and construction industry. The platform helps architects, designers, and building owners research, compare, specify, and document building products from a database of more than 250,000 products across 10,000+ brands, with native Revit integration and tools that keep a single material selection synced across every project document. Founded in 2019 by Harvard and MIT architecture graduates, Acelab is used by over 20,000 firms, including more than half of the top 100 global architecture practices.
Vardhan Mehta
Vardhan Mehta is the co-founder and CEO of Acelab, the company behind Material Hub, an AI platform that helps architects discover, evaluate, and specify building products. A former architect who worked on U.S. embassy envelopes and projects at MIT and Yale, he traded the drafting table for a database after watching designers burn hours hunting through PDFs and spec sheets. Acelab now serves more than 20,000 architecture and design firms in North America, raised a $13.5M Series A in October 2025 led by Navitas Capital, and landed Mehta on Forbes 30 Under 30. His bet: AI can finally absorb the complexity of every material decision in the built environment.