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Construction robotics company Toggle raises $8M

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New York-based construction startup Toggle this morning announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A. Construction startups have also begun to heat up. Toggle automates an entirely different part of the construction process. Investment in construction automation is essential to rebuilding US infrastructure.

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Formwork Labs aims to build ‘the YC of construction tech’

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Construction tech is one of those sectors that has not historically been considered “sexy” in a startup world that often favors glitzier technology. But construction fuels the commercial and real estate industries, which in turn impacts all of us in one way or another. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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Construction insurance company Billy raises additional $2.5 million

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Construction insurance company Billy announced today the closing of an additional $2.5 Gutsa combined his background in construction product management with Robbins’ decade of experience running a construction business to launch Billy, which digitizes and streamlines the construction compliance management process.

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Foundamental closes $85M fund for early-stage construction tech startups

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The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush , accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize.

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AI construction startup Versatile raises a $20M Series A

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San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. The URBAN-X accelerator alum has developed a piece of hardware designed to be mounted to a crane. From that vantage point, it’s capable of capturing and analyzing data across the construction site.

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Rugged’s construction layout robots land $9.4M

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The Houston-based startup developed a robot that prints building layouts on the floor of construction sites, so workers know where — and where not — to build. Of course, that was before the great pandemic automation acceleration that’s occurred in the intervening two to three years. At the time, the company had raised $2.5

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Graneet raises $8.7 million for its vertical SaaS for construction companies

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French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies. Due to the founder’s background, Graneet is focusing on construction companies. So Graneet is building a sort of mini ERP for construction SMBs. That’s why the startup raised a €8 million Series A round ($8.7