Built industry technology has seen significant investment over the past decade, most remarkably, in 2018. But 2019 did not disappoint. We saw substantial seed and early-stage investment in some of the most promising technology solutions entering the construction and real estate markets. Though the investment numbers may not be as shocking as the near $10 billion invested in last year's top 50 deals, let's explore how 2019 stacked up.
Explore our comprehensive list and make your own judgments and perhaps even predictions for how 2020 will stack up.
1. Knotel
Funding Type: Series C
Money Raised: $400,000,000
Date: August 21, 2019
Investors: Wafra Partners (Lead)
2. Industrious
Funding Type: Series D
Money Raised: $80,000,000
Date: August 22, 2019
Investors: Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Inc., TF Cornerstone, Riverwood Capital, Granite Properties, Fifth Wall, Equinox Fitness, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Brookfield Properties Retail
3. Congruex
Funding Type: Private Equity
Money Raised: $48,900,000
Date: August 19, 2019
Investors: Crestview Partners (Lead)
4. Fieldwire
Funding Type: Series C
Money Raised: $33,500,000
Date: September 16, 2019
Investors: Menlo Ventures (Lead), Peak State Ventures, Formation 8, Brick & Mortar Ventures
Funding Type: Series B
Money Raised: $33,000,000
Date: September 19, 2019
Investors: Next47 (Lead), Presidio Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Lemnos VC, Founders Fund, Building Ventures
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $26,000,000
Date: August 6, 2019
Investors: SQN Venture Partners, Peak State Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Foundamental, Bold Capital Partners
7. Blokable
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $23,000,000
Date: August 19, 2019
Investors: Vulcan Capital (Lead), Ten Eighty Capital, Revolution Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures, Launch Incubator, Kapor Capital, Ferguson Ventures, Building Ventures, Bluetail Ventures
Funding Type: Series C
Money Raised: $22,500,000
Date: October 6, 2019
Investors: Dundon Capital Partners (Lead)
9. Andpad
Funding Type: Series B
Money Raised: $21,967,200
Date: September 3, 2019
Investors: Senshu Ikeda Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Kyogin Lease & Capital, Iyogin Capital, Globis Capital Partners, DNX Ventures, Chibagin Capital, BEENEXT
10. RenoRun
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $17,067,442
Date: November 11, 2019
Investors: Obvious Ventures (Lead), Inovia Capital (Lead), Silicon Valley Bank, ScaleUP Ventures, Real Ventures, Maple VC
11. Rhumbix
Funding Type: Series B
Money Raised: $14,300,000
Date: June 20, 2019
Investors: Tenfore Holdings (Lead), Blackhorn Ventures (Lead), South Park Ventures, S28 Capital, Greylock Partners, Glynn Capital Management, Autodesk
12. Dvele
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $14,000,000
Date: March 27, 2019
Investors: Crescent Real Estate (Lead)
13. OpenSpace
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $14,000,000
Date: August 13, 2019
Investors: Zigg Capital, WeWork Labs, Tishman Speyer, Suffolk Construction, Navitas Capital, Lux Capital, JLL Spark, Goldcrest Capital
14. klarx
Funding Type: Unknown
Money Raised: $13,885,625
Date: September 17, 2019
Investors: B&C Innovation Investment (Lead), Target Global
15. eSUB Construction Software
Funding Type: Series B
Money Raised: $12,000,000
Date: May 29, 2019
Investors: Catalyst Investors (Lead), Revolution
16. Hesus
Funding Type: Series B
Money Raised: $11,108,500
Date: March 19, 2019
Investors: Demeter (Lead), Suez Ventures, Construction Venture, Bouygues Construction Corporate Venture
17. iMod Structures
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $11,000,000
Date: April 8, 2019
Investors: Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group (Lead)
18. Connect Homes
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $10,800,000
Date: May 15, 2019
Investors: Virgo Investment Group (Lead), Brick & Mortar Ventures (Lead), Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, MetaProp NYC, Almubader Capital
19. Trux
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $10,00,000
Date: March 11, 2019
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $10,800,000
Date: April 2, 2019
Investors: Arrowroot Capital Management (Lead)
21. Locamod
Funding Type: Unknown
Money Raised: $9,997,650
Date: May 15, 2019
Investors: NextStage (Lead)
22. Sorabito
Funding Type: Corporate Round
Money Raised: $8,233,839
Date: May 14, 2019
Investors: Sumitomo Corporation (Lead), Itochu Construction Machinery (Lead)
23. Rabbet
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $8,000,000
Date: February 20, 2019
Investors: QED Investors (Lead), Tectonic Capital, Goldman Sachs, Camber Creek
24. Indus.ai
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $8,000,000
Date: September 18, 2019
Investors: Millennium Technology Value Partners (Lead), UP2398, Spero Ventures, Groundbreak Ventures, Foundamental, BootstrapLabs
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $8,000,000
Date: October 29, 2019
Investors: Merus Capital (Lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Foundamental, Blackhorn Ventures
26. Reconstruct
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $7,700,000
Date: May 14, 2019
Investors: Cultivation Capital (Lead)
27. Unearth
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $7,000,000
Date: September 16, 2019
Investors: Vulcan Capital (Lead), Madrona Venture Group
28. Kaarta
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $6,500,000
Date: March 20, 2019
Investors: GreenSoil Building Innovation Fund (Lead), Zamagias Properties Inc., Startbot, Riverfront Ventures, Quaker BioVentures
29. Tenderd
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $5,800,000
Date: June 11, 2019
Investors: Y Combinator (Lead), BECO Capital (Lead), VentureSouq, Soma Capital, Global Founders Capital, Dynamo
30. Wizzcad
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $5,554,750
Date: June 21, 2019
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $5,500,000
Date: August 21, 2019
Investors: Robert Bosch Venture Capital (Lead), Root Ventures, Conductive Ventures
32. SafeAI
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $5,000,000
Date: June 18, 2019
Investors: Autotech Ventures (Lead), Monta Vista Capital, Embark Ventures, Brick & Mortar Ventures
33. Urban Umbrella
Funding Type: Debt Financing
Money Raised: $5,000,000
Date: October 1, 2019
34. Dusty Robotics
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $5,000,000
Date: November 26, 2019
Investors: NextGen Venture Partners (Lead), Root Ventures, Cantos, Baseline Ventures
35. Bridgit
Funding Type: Debt Financing
Money Raised: $4,701,063
Date: October 1, 2019
Investors: Business Development Bank of Canada (Lead), Vanedge Capital, StandUp Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Innovation Grade Capital
36. IrisVR
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $4,000,000
Date: March 23, 2019
Investors: Valar Ventures (Lead), FreshTracks Capital
37. Join
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $4,000,000
Date: June 25, 2019
Investors: SignalFire (Lead), Building Ventures (Lead), Bolt
38. Tracktor
Funding Type: Unknown
Money Raised: $3,332,550
Date: January 23, 2019
Investors: Kerala Ventures, BTP Capital Investissement
39. RenoRun
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $3,000,000
Date: February 1, 2019
Investors: Real Ventures (Lead), ScaleUP Ventures
40. ProTenders
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $3,000,000
Date: March 8, 2019
Investors: Hamda Saeed Al Otaiba (Lead)
41. AirWorks
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $2,300,000
Date: January 25, 2019
Investors: Innospark Ventures (Lead), Rough Draft Ventures, MetaProp NYC
Funding Type: Pre-seed
Money Raised: $2,000,000
Date: February 27, 2019
Investors: Urban Us, Root Ventures, Lagziel Family
43. Urban Umbrella
Funding Type: Series A
Money Raised: $2,000,000
Date: May 13, 2019
44. Fieldly
Funding Type: Unknown
Money Raised: $1,800,000
Date: November 20, 2019
Investors: Manuel Salvisberg, Lars Kahlén
45. StructionSite
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $1,500,000
Date: January 7, 2019
Investors: Cemex Ventures (Lead), WND Ventures, Social Starts, Obayashi Corporation
46. Bridgit
Funding Type: Debt Financing
Money Raised: $1,500,000
Date: August 9, 2019
Investors: CIBC Innovation Banking (Lead)
47. Source (f/k/a krowdsourced)
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $1,150,000
Date: July 12, 2019
Investors: Rogue Venture Partners (Lead), Oregon Venture Fund (Lead), The R-Group, LLC
48. Gearflow
Funding Type: Seed
Money Raised: $1,100,000
Date: October 15, 2019
Investors: Chicago Early Growth Ventures, Annabelle
49. RenoRun
Funding Type: Convertible Note
Money Raised: $1,000,000
Date: February 1, 2019
50. Einsite
Funding Type: Pre-seed
Money Raised: $1,000,000
Date: June 28, 2019
Investors: Resolute Ventures (Lead), Firebolt Ventures
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