Venture West 2025

April 8-10, 2025 | San Francisco, CA

When

4.8.2025 at 8:00AM - 4.10.2025 at 5:00PM

Where

The City Club of San Francisco 155 Sansome St, 10th floor San Francisco, CA 94104

Construction's Premier Venture Event Series

Venture West brings together corporate leaders, innovators, and investors at the heart of the built environment’s digital transformation examining trends relating to both early and late stage investment in the sector.

Since 2018, BuiltWorlds Venture Conference series has grown to become the world’s premier symposium for innovators and investors driving the development of emerging technologies across construction and the built world ecosystem.

If you are part of a member company, you may have tickets already available to use. Please use the registration form below or reach out to info@builtworlds.com if you have questions. 

Auxillary Events at Venture West

Dealmaker's Alley

Along side our groundbreaking Built World Demo Day, Dealmaker's Alley - a structured way for both investors and startups to schedule meetings and discuss potential opportunities in a quiet place separate from the main conference area, has emerged as another way BuiltWorlds has helped connect capital, technology, and industry in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations sector since 2014.

2024 Investor Participants Included:

RECENT BUILTWORLDS VENTURE RESEARCH

Pitch in the 2025 Venture West Demo Day Competition

2025 Speakers (more to be added - apply to speak below):

Governor Bill Ritter

Operating Partner, Blackhorn Ventures

Kaushal Diwan

Corporate Director, Strategic Investments & Partnerships, DPR Construction

Paulina Szyzdek

Investment Principal, Bosch Ventures

Cynthia Brosque

Chief of Staff, SafeAI

Jordan Lawver

Director of Project Management, Construction Tech, Trimble

Talia Rafaeli

General Partner, KOMPAS VC

Lisa Diaz

Managing Partner & Founder, Turf Advisory

Ken Sobel

CEO, Hyperframe

Artem Kuchukov

CEO & Co-Founder, KEWAZO

Wei Ding

CEO & Co-Founder, UCR

Nilay Parikh

CEO & Founder, Arvist

Kenichi Soga

Professor, University of California Berkeley - Skydeck Startup Accelerator

Andra Keay

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics

Victoria Taylor

CEO & President, Project Finance Advisory Limited

Meg Baldini

VP, Corporate Development, Procore

Sadanand Sahasrabudhe

CEO & Co-Founder, ConstructivIQ

Mateo Zimmermann

VC Investment Manager, Cemex Ventures

Iro Armeni

Stanford University

Blair Chenault

Category Director - Payments, Trimble

Diana Kay

Partner, Suffolk Technologies

Jourdan Younis

Partner, Startup Wise Guys

Ryan Gibson

Venture Partner, Eclipse Ventures

Mayra Soto

Senior Associate, Building Ventures

Karim Plaza

General Partner, Westerly Winds

Hilary Kivitz

Owner, Mazarine

General Sessions

Day 1 Schedule

9:00AM – 5:00PM | Tuesday, April 8

Formwork Labs Event

By Invitation Only

Day 2 Schedule

8:00AM – 12:00PM | Wednesday, April 9
Location Restricted to Equipment & Robotics Members

Equipment & Robotics Forum Meeting (Restricted to Members of the Equipment & Robotics Research Track)

Members of the Equipment & Robotics Research Track convene to discuss innovation and adoption trends.

8:00AM – 12:00PM | Wednesday, April 9
Location Restricted to Venture Members

Venture Forum Meeting (Restricted to Venture & Investments Research Track)

Members of the Venture & Investment Research Track convene to discuss investment, innovation and M&A trends, and attend exclusive presentations.

3:00 – 5:00 PM | Wednesday, April 9
The City Club of San Francisco: 155 Sansome St 11th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

Demo Day Startup Pitch Competition (Open to all Conference Attendees)

Innovative startups pitch their businesses to a panel of active venture investor judges.

5:00 – 6:30 PM | Wednesday, April 9
Cafe, 10th Floor

Investors of the Year Awards and Reception

Day 3 Schedule

8:00 – 9:00AM | Thursday, April 10
Cafe, 10th Floor

Breakfast & Networking

9:10 – 9:50 AM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

Keynote Address

Governor Bill Ritter, Former Governor of Colorado and Blackhorn Ventures Operating Partner

9:50 – 10:30 AM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

The Evolution of Venture Capital in the Built World and its Trajectory

Is technology and the venture capital model the industry's answer for declining productivity and margin compression? This panel will balance entrepreneur and investor perspectives to discuss the needs of built environment startups, how the fundraising landscape has transformed over the last few decades, and how technology is addressing the industry's pain points.

Speakers:
Artem Kuchokov - Kewzo
Steven Strickland
Ryan Gibson - Eclipse VC

10:30 – 10:55 AM | Thursday, April 10

BuiltWorlds Announcement

10:55 – 11:10 AM | Thursday, April 10

Networking Break

11:10 – 11:50 AM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

HardTech and the Future of Construction

The tides of built environment venture funding have shifted in favor of advanced equipment, materials, robotics, sensors, energy systems, and modular construction startups. This is partially due to the advancements made in AI and underlying software operating systems. This panel will unpack why strategics are interested in HardTech and what the measured impact of fundamentally changing how we build will be on the industry.

Speakers:
Kaushal Diwan - WND Ventures
Paulina Szyzdek - Bosch Ventures
Cynthia Brosque - SafeAI Inc/Stanford University
Ken Sobel - Hyperframe

11:50 AM – 12:30 PM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

Endgame Strategies for Project Management and Vertical Software

Project management software has become more expensive while industry productivity continues to decline. Additionally, AI is fundamentally challenging the way businesses interact with their software. This panel will explore how industry stakeholders are evaluating investment in field management and enterprise software. Panelists will discuss where they are currently seeing efficiency gains and where the industry is heading.

Speakers:
Jordan Lawver - Trimble
Sadanand Sahasrabudhe - ConstructivIQ

12:30 – 1:30 PM | Thursday, April 10
Cafe, 10th Floor

Lunch

1:30 – 1:50 PM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

BuiltWorlds Venture & Investments Research Presentation

A deep dive on the venture investment, tech adoption and tech M&A trends driving innovation in the built environment.

Cameron Mabley, Venture & Investments Analyst, BuiltWorlds

1:50 – 2:30 PM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

Sustainable Technology: Adoption and Investment Strategies

From green materials to renewable energy, a myriad of built environment startups advertise sustainability in their value props. But how does the industry define sustainability? How are startups positioning themselves and what types of technologies are driving impact? This panel will explore how the industry's tech adopters are implementing sustainable technology and what their unique evaluation processes look like.

Speakers:
Talia Rafaeli - Kompas VC
Mateo Zimmerman - Cemex Ventures

2:30 – 3:10 PM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

Rebuilding Aging Infrastructure with Technology and Private Capital

On the heels of $1.2T of public funding for U.S. infrastructure projects, investment in horizontal construction projects and infrastructure technology startups has surged. This panel will evaluate how technology and private capital are reshaping our aging infrastructure and where opportunities for disruption still exist. Entrepreneurs, investors and academics will discuss the unique technological and financial needs of public infrastructure and how they are being met.

Speakers:
Lisa Diaz - Turf Advisory
Kenichi Soga - University of California, Berkeley
Victoria Taylor - Project Finance Advisory
Diana Kay - Suffolk Technologies

2:40 – 3:10 PM | Thursday, April 10
Library, 9th Floor

Breakout Session: Advanced Equipment in Practice, A Case Study with Xpanner

This interactive breakout session will explore how NoBull Energy, a solar field EPC provider, uses Xpanner's automation and robotics technology on their jobsites.

3:10 – 3:40 PM | Thursday, April 10

Networking Break

3:40 PM – 4:20 PM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks: An Alternative to Project Financing

Blockchain, decentralized finance and crypto are polarizing terms that are often associated with volatility and intangibility. This panel will inform the audience on how decentralized technology can be applied to our physical assets and represents an alternative to traditional project financing.

4:20 – 5:00 PM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

Founders' Perspectives on Exiting in the Built Environment

Leveraging the perspectives of founders who have scaled and sold their startups, this panel will dissect the exit. The most common form of exit in the built environment is a sale to a strategic acquirer. Founders will discuss the integration process and provide advice to other entrepreneurs preparing for an exit.

Speakers:
Meg Baldini - Procore
Blaire Chenault - Trimble
William Wagner - Formerly of Penta Technologies

5:00 PM | Thursday, April 10
Main Dining Room, 11th Floor

Closing Remarks

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