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Dive Brief:
- Buildots, a startup that turns workplace footage into digital twins for contractors, has raised $130 million in a funding round, the company announced Monday. OG Venture Partners led the round.
- According to the announcement, the Tel Aviv-based startup allows contractors to upload their video footage captured from job sites to produce 3D digital twins of constructions. He assembles the footage with schedules and mockups to create what he calls “the control tower” of large construction projects.
- Buildots works with several construction stalwarts in the US including JE Dunn Construction, Mortenson and STO Building Group. It also partners with Hochtief, the parent company of Turner Construction, the largest US builder by revenue.
Diving knowledge:
Buildots said the rapid expansion of data center construction projects alongside the onshoring boom, it has created longer deadlines and higher stakes, which are the impetus for a change in the way construction delivers its projects.
To that end, the company claims it can deliver results with its access to high-quality data, a famous block for builders. In a January op-ed for Construction Dive, Amir Berman, vice president of industry transformation at Buildots, argued that there is a lack of data standardization. slowing down construction of significant progress.
“Too often, data is an afterthought, something grudgingly collected to fulfill or inform,” Berman wrote. “Critical ideas remain buried in spreadsheets and email threads, and project knowledge evaporates when teams disperse.”
Investment also represents another vote of confidence in established contech companies with proven applications in the construction industry. Buildots, who completed a $45 million Series D funding round in May 2025, now bringing its total funding to $297 million, according to the announcement.
Buildots is also seeing this confidence in its deals with builders. The startup noted that multi-year, seven-figure contracts with clients are now standard, rather than the exception.
In the future, Buildots aims to expand to more construction portfolios in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to the announcement. It also aims to add its capabilities to the entire construction life cycle.
“The blind spot we solve for a data center is the same one that cost a school or a hospital decades ago, just on a much larger scale, so the world is finally paying attention,” Roy Danon, CEO and co-founder of Buildots, said in the announcement. “The Age of AI Will Build as Planned.”
