TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

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

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Kojo , a startup that aims to help construction companies in the U.S. Earlier this year, the startup rebranded to Kojo and expanded from serving just one construction trade — electrical — to eight, including mechanical, concrete, drywall, roofing, flooring, site preparation and self-perform general contractors. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

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. Now, it seems, construction is a prime target for robotics. Pandemics happen, people get sick — but construction, it seems, never stops.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 24, 2023

Going Beyond Good Intentions: Wissam Akra’s Trailblazing Journey in Transforming the Construction Industry It’s a strange, wonderful, and sometimes scary time for industries that are impacted by the adoption of AI into their day-to-day work. Construction is no different. I’ve dedicated my life to the construction industry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. From that vantage point, it’s capable of capturing and analyzing data across the construction site. With around $10 trillion currently spent on construction each year, the industry is prime for some big-ticket investments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. Amidst the chaos, construction firms faced an existential question: How will they survive? Construction is a massive, $1.3

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

(September 5, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) is now accepting applications for the Construction Inflation Fund, which will provide grants for development projects experiencing increased construction costs and funding gaps resulting from inflation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It certainly follows then that some leading construction robotics companies are able to strike while the iron is hot with some healthy raises. The startup’s first product is the Field Printer, a robot that prints out plans on the floor of construction sites. Today, Bay Area-based Dusty Robotics announced a $16.5 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Bay Area-based construction startup TraceAir today announced a $3.5 We first noted the company back in 2016 , when it pitched a method for using drones to spot construction errors before they become too expense. The pandemic has thrown the construction industry for a loop (along with countless others). million Series A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

More construction projects are being started, but payments to contractors and their subcontractors continue to cause a bottleneck in the normal course of completing a project. Constrafor grabs $106M in equity, credit to finance construction subcontractors The company raised $106.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. million NASA contract for lunar construction tech by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch. Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

With the pandemic affecting every aspect of life and industry, it’s no surprise that digitization is coming to construction fast. Construction suppliers are increasingly under the same pressure as other sectors to perform at a higher level. This is the argument of Brokrete , which bills itself as the “Shopify of construction.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

The technological advances we’ve made over the last few thousand years are stunning, but the construction industry still relies on centuries-old technology. Even so, investors are backing startups bringing robotics, data management, automation and augmented reality into the construction process. Heinrich Gröller, partner, Speedinvest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to construction projects, any type of delay can result in increased costs both for the contractor and their customer. It is also interesting that Tiger Global is a co-lead as it is yet another example of the investment giant backing a construction tech company — a growing area of interest for the firm.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Hong Kong-based viAct helps construction sites perform around-the-clock monitoring with an AI-based cloud platform that combines computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app. Founded in 2016, viAct currently serves more than 30 construction industry clients in Asia and Europe. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar We love Eano’s mission — combining a similar product sourcing strategy as Wish with technology to bring a better experience to all constituents in the antiquated construction industry.”. trillion-dollar industry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. Construction is one of the largest industries in the world but amongst the least open to new technology. It says a construction volume of more than $4 billion has already been processed via the platform. We call it pre-construction.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In the construction business, time is money. But with so many moving parts, it can be extremely challenging for construction companies to manage the administrative aspects of their finances. Adaptive , an 11-month-old startup that has set out to give construction teams better tools to manage their back offices, has raised $6.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Brazilian construction tech startup Ambar announced it has raised a large Series C round: R$204 million, approximately $36 million at today’s mid-market rate. Ambar was created in 2013 with the ambition to leverage technology to make the civil construction process more efficient. Ambar is not a general contractor, though.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Briq , which has developed a fintech platform used by the construction industry, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Briq CEO and co-founder Bassem Hamdy is a former executive at construction tech giant Procore (which recently went public and has a market cap of $10.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

There are many jobs in the construction industry that fall under the “dull, dirty, and dangerous” category said to be ripe for automation — but only a few can actually be taken on with today’s technology. Drone-focused construction startup TraceAir raises $3.5M. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Shepherd , an insurtech startup focused on the construction market, has closed a $6.15 For Shepherd, the construction market is its target, an industry that it intends to carve into starting with excess liability coverage. On the subject of price, Levine thinks that the construction insurance market is suffering at the moment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

It all sounds lovely in theory, but in fact 011h says it has already completed such a project with Renta Corporación, a publicly traded developer, where the “embodied carbon” of the building was reduced by more than 90% compared to conventional methods, while construction timelines were reduced by 35%.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

There are countless posts on portfolio construction, or how many investments are ideal in a venture portfolio, and so forth. What I do is that the topic of VC fund portfolio construction is not an easy way to grasp, and is likely even harder to master in practice. I am not qualified to opine on the topic.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

She left NEA to start her own fund, Construct Capital, that focuses exclusively on early-stage startups, with a portfolio that includes Copia, ChargeLab, Tradeswell and Hadrian. That’s where Construct Capital came in. It’s a $140 million fund helmed by Grayson and former Uber exec Rachel Holt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When an accident on a building site resulted in the death of their friend, the founders of Safesight were inspired to launch the platform to digitize safety programs for construction. The data from that gave birth to a new insurtech startup this year, Foresight , which covers workers’ compensation.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

ICON, a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. million NASA contract for lunar construction tech appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA. Read more here. Read more here.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2023

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

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2020

The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in The Construction Index] Mass transport for the post-Covid world appeared first on OurCrowd. Hyperloop is being heralded as the first new form of public transportation in more than a century. Lisa Russell looks at whether Covid-19 might accelerate its adoption. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Indonesia’s construction industry is growing quickly, driven by residential and industrial building, alongside infrastructure development plans by the government. Sourcing skilled labor is still a time-intensive process, however, and often relies on personal networks and lengthy recruitment efforts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But two things are true: 1) The lull is temporary; and 2) While robotics isn’t recession-proof, construction might as well be. This is certainly a theme of late — as other categories of robotics have struggled to raise, those operating in construction appear relatively unimpacted.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2022

In recent years, interest in 3D printing in the construction industry has led to its increasingly widespread adoption. The post [ICON in AZO Materials] A closer look at new 3D printed construction projects appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2022

Locusview, a Digital Construction Management (DCM) company for energy infrastructure organizations, after more than two and a half years of product development, large-scale pilots, and collaboration with several large utility organizations, today unveiled its solution for Electric Utilities at DISTRIBUTECH 2022. Read more here.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The post Sejong Telecom to build Blockchain-based cloud PACS construction and NFT issuance platform for medical image data first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform. It is expected to create high added value through the recycling of medical data.”

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