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Construction Tech Conference to Host Inaugural Contractor’s Choice and Tech Excellence Awards

2 days ago | builtworlds.com | James McClister

The Contractor’s Choice and Tech Excellence Awards are set for their inaugural ceremony at the 2025 Construction Tech Conference, taking place July 8-9 in Chicago’s historic Willis Tower. The awards will celebrate the top tech solutions across a variety of fields, as identified through BuiltWorlds’ research, and contractors demonstrating outstanding tech adoption and application in those same fields, respectively.
Formwork Labs Alum Secures $750K Pre-Seed Round to Transform Material Procurement

2 months ago | builtworlds.com | James McClister

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 Amazon.
WND Ventures Charts New Direction to Accelerate AEC Innovation at Venture West

2 months ago | builtworlds.com | James McClister

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 building complex projects and pushing the industry forward,” said Atul Khanzode, CTO at DPR, in a statement released by the company.
PRESS RELEASE: BuiltWorlds Appoints Rosemarie Lipman as CEO

2 months ago | builtworlds.com | James McClister

BuiltWorlds names Rosemarie Lipman as new CEO alongside growth capital investmentBuiltWorlds, 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 immediately.
2024 Investor of the Year Finalists Announced

2 months ago | builtworlds.com | James McClister

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.
Getting to Know SMACNA's Innovator of the Year: A Q&A With Liz Fong

Mar 12, 2025 | builtworlds.com | James McClister

Liz Fong has worked at MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, a full-service, design-build mechanical contractor out of the Pacific Northwest, for more than a decade. She spent about six years as a sheet metal worker before becoming operations integration general foreman, a position she’s held for nearly eight years. Recently, she was named the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association’s (SMACNA’s) 2025 Innovator of the Year.
Construction’s Robotic Risk Dilemma

Mar 5, 2025 | builtworlds.com | Audrey Lynch |James McClister

The construction industry is battling a complex headwind of overlapping and intersecting challenges that threaten to restrain the built environment’s growth and development. It’s a situation that has fueled the incubation of innovation while also underscoring the complications of truly incorporating those new technologies that promise the most impact. This is particularly true as it relates to robotics. Robotics offers a solution to some of construction’s most pressing problems.
Visualized Scheduling and Opportunities for Digitization: A Q+A With Planera Co-Founder and CEO Nitin Bhandari

Feb 18, 2025 | builtworlds.com | James McClister

Scheduling solution and BuiltWorlds member Planera, founded in November 2021, hit a milestone last year, with its users having created and managed over 25 million schedule days of construction timelines via the platform. In honor of that achievement, we sat down with the company’s co-founder and CEO, Nitin Bhandari (picture right), to learn a little bit more about his background, the company, the potential of visualized scheduling, and where the industry is ripe for digitization.
Key Takeaways From the 2024 Annual Venture & Investments Report

Feb 17, 2025 | builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley

BuiltWorlds’ 2024 Annual Venture & Investments Report revealed a resilient asset class amidst a difficult global venture fundraising environment. Overall, deal counts increased year over year for built environment venture capital (VC) and technology/startup mergers and acquisitions, while capital inflows experienced a slight pullback—a rebound from 2023’s exceptionally high numbers, driven up by five deals at or exceeding $1 billion in value.
2024 Top 50 Venture & Investments Deals

Jan 28, 2025 | builtworlds.com | Cameron Mabley

Welcome to the 2024 Top 50 Venture & Investments Deals List!The list highlights the top publicly disclosed private capital deals driving technology adoption in the built environment: venture capital (VC) funding rounds in the three Venture & Investments' technology categories (construction tech, building tech, and infrastructure tech), industry tech company mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and VC fund launches.