Formwork Labs Alum Secures $750K Pre-Seed Round to Transform Material Procurement
MatBook, a materials procurement startup and alum of Formworks Lab Spring 2024 cohort, has secured $750,000 in pre-seed funding to address volatility in the global construction materials market. The round was led by Seedstars International Ventures, Fluent Ventures, and Everywhere Ventures, with support from angel investors affiliated with Autodesk and […]
Designing Smart Buildings: A Q+A with The Designers Group Founder and CEO Blima Ehrentreu
The Designers Group (TDG) began in Toronto, Canada in 2009, with the goal of creating a firm that would integrate “design with purpose,” ensuring that every space enhances the lives of the people using it. First working on residential projects, the firm quickly grew to include projects in the commercial, […]
WND Ventures Charts New Direction to Accelerate AEC Innovation at Venture West
In a fireside chat at the recent Venture West event in San Francisco, DPR CEO George Pfeffer and CTO Atul Khanzode sat down with BuiltWorlds Senior Director of Research Tyler Sewall to share a new vision for the company’s strategic venture arm WND Ventures. “For 35 years, DPR has been […]
PRESS RELEASE: BuiltWorlds Appoints Rosemarie Lipman as CEO
BuiltWorlds names Rosemarie Lipman as new CEO alongside growth capital investment BuiltWorlds, a leading research platform, providing insights, advisory services, networking, and conferences in service to the buildings and infrastructure industries, today officially announced the appointment of Rosemarie Lipman, a long-time industry business and technology leader, as chief executive officer, effective […]
Analyst Call Takeaways – Sustainable Jobsites I: Streamlining Reporting, Compliance and Sustainable Execution
The first sustainability-focused Analyst Call of the year took place yesterday. The timing of the call was fortuitous, coming right on the heels of the 2025 Sustainable Jobsites Annual Benchmarking Report and Sustainable Jobsites Top 50 List. During the call, we had the pleasure of sitting down with two of […]
2024 Investor of the Year Finalists Announced
The BuiltWorlds Investor of the Year Awards are a celebration of investment in innovation. Across five categories, we comb through submissions, nominations, and publicly-available data to determine the venture capitalists (VCs) and corporate VCs that are doing the most to advance technological innovation throughout the buildings and infrastructure construction industries. […]
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