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Construct Capital’s $300M fund targets critical infrastructure automation

TechCrunch

Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will.

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

TechCrunch

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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Cocoon Capital Leads $700K Seed Funding for Singapore’s Frontline Industrial Software

AsiaTechDaily

Register Singapore -based construction planning startup Frontline Industrial Software has raised $700,000 in seed funding. Cocoon Capital, an investment firm from the same country, led the round. With the newly secured seed funding, the company aims to change the field of construction planning by leveraging its unique software.

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NJEDA Awards First $2M under Angel Match Program to Support Early-Stage Technology Companies

American Entrepreneurship

(April 24, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has closed its first four approvals under the Angel Match Program , awarding a total of $2 million to support early-stage technology companies. This fuels the growth for the product-based technology company by increasing the pool of available capital.

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Bridgit secures $24M CAD in funding to provide construction companies with ‘workforce intelligence’

TechCrunch

Bridgit , a “workforce intelligence” technology company that is focused on the construction industry, announced today that it has raised CAD$24 million, or about US$19.4 CEO Mallorie Brodie and COO Lauren Lake founded Bridgit in late 2012 with the mission of helping construction companies maximize profits “by taking a people-first approach.

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Eano’s Stella Wu is not your typical construction tech startup founder

TechCrunch

Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar The company plans to take its new capital and “go deep into the product side.”. We’re also helping these individual contractors increase the brand, and helping them with the administration and customer support side with our software.”.

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Zen Capitalism

Founders Coop

I worked for Yvon and Malinda in the mid-’90s, first heading up the “technical” products group (all the sport-specific products requiring specialized fabrics and construction), and then leading the effort to build the company’s first online store. We already know we’re outliers in the blue-shirts-and-khakis world of venture capital.

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