Why we raised $130M – here’s what’s next for Buildots

In my last eight years working with construction leaders, what has struck me over and over again is how much they deliver with how little. These are people running multi-billion-dollar programs on judgment built over decades, holding thousands of moving parts together through experience and instinct. 

Every other major industry hands its leaders a data layer to lean on. Construction never got one.

That is what we set out to create at Buildots. Our mission has never been about replacing human judgment, but about giving construction leaders something solid to stand on. 

When an experienced project leader gets verified ground truth of progress and delay risk, rather than a picture assembled from 100s of reports, texts and email threads, they deliver projects faster and more efficiently. Similarly, when a COO gains an accurate view of the performance of their business’s entire construction portfolio, they make better strategic decisions that contribute to the business’s health.  

Today we announced $130 million in new funding, led by O.G. Venture Partners, with Mohari Ventures, Qumra Capital, Human Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Avigdor Willenz, Intel Capital, Poalim Equity and Viola Growth. It brings our total raised to $297 million.

I want to be specific about why we raised it.

What changed this year

Global construction is a $16 trillion industry, and it’s now squarely on the critical path of the transformations reshaping the world: the AI data center buildout, manufacturing’s re-industrialization, the defense boom, the race to scale energy. Every one depends on the same thing: getting something built on time, at a scale and pace this industry has never attempted. 

Data center owners in particular tell us this constantly: their technology moves so fast that a facility’s useful life starts shrinking before it’s even finished. Every month spent building it is value that doesn’t come back. 

That’s all to say that the stakes are now higher than ever on almost every project we touch. Construction has become more complex, timelines have gotten shorter, and the cost of getting it wrong has increased. 

That reality has changed how our customers buy, and not only on mission-critical work. Company-wide deployments are now the norm, not the exception, as the market shifts from standard projects to mega-projects and from one-off jobs to portfolio-wide, multi-year commitments. This isn’t just true in the mission-critical space, but in residential, commercial and education portfolios.

Where we’re setting our sights

We’re setting our sights on becoming indispensable infrastructure for our customers, as fundamental to running their business as their finance stack or cloud provider. Getting there means scaling in three directions.

1. Wider, by expanding enterprise deployments further across Europe, North America and the Middle East.
2. Deeper, by covering more of the construction lifecycle, from bidding through to handover.
3. And higher, by turning portfolio data into the business-level insights that let executives ensure every project their company builds is measurably better than the last.

None of it works without the AI underneath it. Buildots creates a feedback loop between the physical and digital worlds: computer vision trained not on the internet, but on eight years of real construction sites, turning video footage into a digital twin of every project. That’s what replaces fragmented reports and subjective assessments with a single, objective view of progress, and lets us forecast risk with precision. 

On portfolios worth billions, even small execution improvements translate into real economic value: earlier visibility to recover delays, smarter deployment of people and capital, and risks caught before they compound.

Which brings me back to where I started. 

The people I want to thank are our customers. You backed this before the industry did. You’ve been generous with your time and your sites. And every part of this platform is better because of it. 

Thank you.