Buildots Raises $130M as Construction Progress Data Becomes an Enterprise Purchase
Buildots has announced a $130 million funding round led by O.G. Venture Partners, taking total capital raised to $297 million. The Tel Aviv company uses computer vision to turn site footage into a continuously updated picture of construction progress, and says it is now deployed across more than 100 large firms including Intel, Digital Realty, STO Building Group, JE Dunn, Mortenson, Bouygues and HOCHTIEF. The capital is earmarked for wider geographic coverage, more of the project lifecycle, and portfolio-level reporting for executives.
Progress tracking used to get bought one job at a time. A project director found budget, ran a pilot on a single site, liked the reports or did not, and the decision rarely travelled further than that. Buildots’ latest raise points at a different purchasing habit taking hold among very large builders.
The company announced a $130 million round led by O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mohari Ventures, Human Capital, Qumra Capital, Viola Growth, Poalim Equity and angel investor Avigdor Willenz. That is roughly three times the size of its previous round. In May 2025, Buildots closed a $45 million Series D led by Qumra Capital, which brought total funding to $166 million at the time, according to TechCrunch. The company now puts cumulative capital raised at $297 million.
Timing matters here. Buildots names Intel and Digital Realty among its owner customers, both of which sit squarely in the data center and semiconductor build-out. The company describes global construction as a $16 trillion industry currently carrying the weight of several capital cycles at once: AI data centers, advanced manufacturing, defense, and energy infrastructure.
Who backed the round
Two new names on the cap table, and a lot of returning ones
O.G. Venture Partners led. The firm has been on the Buildots register since the 2022 Series C, which it co-led with Viola Growth, per Engineering News-Record. Two investors are new this time. Human Capital, the San Francisco firm whose portfolio includes SpaceX, Neuralink and Anduril, and Mohari Ventures. Longstanding backers TLV Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Maor Investments and Tidhar remain on the register.
Buildots also says the round extends a multi-year run of tripling annual revenue. That figure is the company’s own, and it is consistent with what it told reporters around the Series D, when it projected another year of triple-digit growth.
In 20+ years of backing category-defining companies, the pattern is always the same: the winners build the foundational technology layer that everyone else ends up depending on.Ziv Kop, Managing Partner, O.G. Venture Partners
What the platform actually does
Turning site footage into a schedule you can check rather than debate
Buildots runs computer vision models over video captured on site, then reads that footage against the construction schedule and the 3D model together. The output is a digital twin of the project that classifies hundreds of separate work types, updated continuously rather than assembled by hand each month.
The company is direct about where the models come from: eight years of data from real construction sites, rather than material scraped from the web or borrowed from general-purpose models. For anyone who has sat through a progress meeting where two parties disagree about what percentage complete a floor is, the pitch is narrow and easy to grasp. Replace the argument with a record.
- Manual inspections. Walk-arounds that capture a moment and then age badly.
- Fragmented reporting. Separate progress files from different trades, reconciled after the fact.
- Subjective assessment. Percentage-complete calls made on judgement rather than observation.
Buildots frames the return in economic terms rather than efficiency terms. On a billion-dollar project, it argues, small improvements in execution carry real money, because earlier sight of a slip leaves more runway to recover it and better progress data improves how crews and capital get deployed.
Where the money goes
Wider, deeper, higher
The company breaks its plan into three directions, and they are worth reading carefully if you are a customer or a competitor.
The third direction matches what the company says about its contracts. Buildots says seven-figure, portfolio-wide, multi-year agreements are now standard for the company rather than exceptional. Selling to a group CEO on portfolio risk is a different motion to selling a project director a site tool, and it explains why the check size jumped.
What the round signals for the wider market
What it means depending on which side of the table you sit
If you run projects, the read is about procurement. Progress data is moving from a discretionary project line into something closer to a corporate system, alongside finance and procurement software. Contracts of that shape get negotiated centrally and run over several years, which changes who in the business owns the decision.
If you build ConTech, this is a useful benchmark. A $130 million round in a category built on proprietary site data suggests investors are pricing accumulated operational data as the defensible part, not the model architecture. That thesis has been visible across the funding board for months, from NavVis’ $85 million Series D for spatial data to the smaller checks going into procurement and reality capture that we covered in August’s roundup.
And if you allocate capital into AEC, the size of this round against a market where most weeks total under $200 million across every disclosed deal is its own signal. Our most recent weekly board had a $40 million raise as its largest. Capital is concentrating around a small number of companies that have already cleared the enterprise sales barrier in construction, which has historically been the hardest gate in the sector.
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Join 3000+ Readers| Round | Announced | Amount | Lead investor | Total raised after |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | May 2022 | $60m | Viola Growth and O.G. Tech | $106m |
| Series D | May 2025 | $45m | Qumra Capital | $166m |
| Latest round | September 2026 | $130m | O.G. Venture Partners | $297m |
Buildots announced a $130 million round led by O.G. Venture Partners. Participating investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mohari Ventures, Human Capital, Qumra Capital, Viola Growth, Poalim Equity, and angel investor Avigdor Willenz. The company has not labelled the round with a series designation. (Source: Buildots company announcement, 14 September 2026)
Buildots puts total capital raised at $297 million following this round. Its previous total was reported as $166 million after a $45 million Series D in May 2025, which itself followed a $60 million Series C in May 2022 that took the company past $106 million. (Source)
The company says more than 100 large-scale firms run the platform. Named customers include owners Intel and Digital Realty, plus contractors STO Building Group, JE Dunn, Mortenson, Bouygues and HOCHTIEF. Turner Construction also appears in the company’s corporate boilerplate. (Source: Buildots company announcement, 14 September 2026)
Computer vision models process video captured on site and read it against the construction schedule and 3D model together, producing a digital twin that classifies hundreds of types of work. Earlier reporting described the capture method as hardhat-mounted 360 degree cameras. The result is a continuously updated view of where a project stands and a forecast of where it is heading. (Source)
Three stated directions. Wider, meaning more large portfolios across North America and EMEA. Deeper, meaning coverage across the full construction lifecycle from bidding to handover. Higher, meaning business-level intelligence aimed at leadership running whole portfolios. (Source: Buildots company announcement, 14 September 2026)
Partly. Buildots names Intel and Digital Realty among its owner customers and positions the platform for mission-critical projects including data centers, advanced manufacturing and energy infrastructure. The company is clear that it also runs on residential, commercial, school and hospital work, and CEO Roy Danon frames the underlying problem as identical across project types, differing mainly in scale. (Source: Buildots company announcement, 14 September 2026)
The company says seven-figure, portfolio-wide, multi-year agreements are now the norm rather than the exception. That echoes what it said around the Series D in 2025, when it described a shift from project-by-project technology adoption toward long-term enterprise agreements. (Source)
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