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Funding & Deals: construction AI news
- Miter raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures for construction payroll and back-office AIMiter, a workforce and back-office platform for contractors covering payroll, HR, field operations and expenses, announced a $40 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, with Bessemer and Coatue participating. Total funding is now $78 million. Miter says most of the money will go to building AI products.
- Quotr raises $4M seed round for AI construction estimating and procurementQuotr, a Berkeley-based AI estimating and procurement platform, raised a $4 million seed round led by Llama Ventures with strategic angel investors. The company says it will use the money to expand enterprise deployments, grow its supplier network and push into data center, heavy industrial and mission-critical work.
- Weekly roundup: week of Sep 28, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026: Quotr raises $4M seed round for AI construction estimating and procurement; Miter raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures for construction payroll and back-office AI.
- Adaptive raises $30M Series B led by Tidemark for construction accounting agentsAdaptive, which builds AI agents for construction job costing, AP, billing and WIP, raised a $30 million Series B led by Tidemark, bringing total funding to $57 million. The company claims more than 750 construction companies use it. It says a person reviews every agent action before posting.
- Buildots raises $130M led by O.G. Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $297MBuildots, which uses AI and site capture to track progress on large projects, announced $130 million in new funding led by O.G. Venture Partners, with Lightspeed, Intel Capital and others. Its total raised is now $297 million. CTech reported a valuation of nearly $1 billion.
- Weekly roundup: week of Sep 14, 20263 verified construction AI stories announced Sep 14 to Sep 20, 2026. Each item links to our full brief, with a primary source and independent coverage.
- Buildcheck raises $12M Series A for AI drawing review, with DPR's venture arm participatingBuildcheck, which uses computer vision to check construction drawings for errors, omissions and coordination conflicts, raised a $12 million Series A led by Telescope Partners. DPR Construction's venture arm, WND Ventures, also invested. The company says it has 110+ paying customers.
- Weekly roundup: week of Sep 7, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Sep 7 to Sep 13, 2026: Buildcheck raises $12M Series A for AI drawing review, with DPR's venture arm participating; OpenSpace unveils live indoor location, Site Mode and an AI agent platform at Waypoint 2026.
- Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M Series A led by Builders FirstSourceDigs, a Vancouver, Washington startup building AI software for home construction, raised a $25.3 million Series A with Builders FirstSource as the only lead investor. The two companies also signed a five-year commercial agreement to build Digs into Builders FirstSource's digital tools for builders and homeowners.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 24, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Aug 24 to Aug 30, 2026: Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M Series A led by Builders FirstSource.
- Gravis Robotics raises $200M from SoftBank to retrofit heavy equipment for autonomyZurich-based Gravis Robotics, which retrofits excavators and other heavy machines with sensors and AI for assisted or autonomous work, announced a $200 million Series A from SoftBank. Sifted reported the round values the company at $1 billion. Gravis calls it the largest Series A in construction robotics.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 17, 20261 verified construction AI story announced Aug 17 to Aug 23, 2026: Gravis Robotics raises $200M from SoftBank to retrofit heavy equipment for autonomy.
- Procore agrees to buy DroneDeploy for about $845 million in cash, and closes the deal in SeptemberProcore announced a definitive agreement to buy DroneDeploy, the drone and robotics reality-capture platform, for about $845 million in cash. Procore says the deal will feed jobsite imagery into its AI agents. Construction Dive reported the deal closed on September 9.
- Weekly roundup: week of Jul 27, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Jul 27 to Aug 2, 2026: EU AI Omnibus takes effect, pushing back high-risk AI Act rules to December 2027 and August 2028; Procore agrees to buy DroneDeploy for about $845 million in cash, and closes the deal in September.