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Who invests in construction tech and proptech

Design IRL Editorial · Checked 8 November 2026 · For founders looking for investors who already understand construction, real estate or design · How we make our guides

An investor who has backed construction before will understand your sales cycle and may open doors to customers. Here are the kinds of investor active in the built world, each named only alongside a deal we could verify. It isn't a ranking or a complete list.

Funds that specialise in construction

Investor	Examples of deals
Foundamental	Led Brick & Bolt's Series A; co-led Snaptrude's US$14m Series A with Accel (2023); in Infra.Market's pre-IPO round (2024); led CalcTree's €2.3m pre-seed (2025)
Brick & Mortar Ventures	Led Hypar's US$5.5m Series A (2023) and StruxHub's US$4m seed
Building Ventures	Led BuildFactory's US$4.5m pre-seed (2025); in Hypar's Series A
Zacua Ventures	US$56m first fund backed by 19 corporates including Cemex, Procore and Volvo; led Flexnode's US$9m seed (2024); in Outbuild's US$11m Series A

Corporate venture arms

Materials, equipment and software companies invest to find products they can sell or use. Corporates took part in most of the sector's venture money in 2025 (see our guide to how construction startups get funded).

Investor	Examples of deals
Cemex Ventures	Invested in AI process-optimisation company OPTIMITIVE (2025)
Holcim MAQER Ventures	Invested in Vateris (formerly Concrete4Change), its 20th investment (2026); Holcim also in StruxHub's seed
Saint-Gobain NOVA	Minority stake in Plantformance's first growth round (2023)
Hilti Venture	In Outbuild's US$11m Series A (2024); focuses on construction software, jobsite robotics and industrialised construction
Trimble Ventures	In Outbuild's Series A (2024)

Proptech funds

Investor	Examples of deals
Fifth Wall	Co-led Juniper Square's US$130m Series D (2025), a real-estate investment software company
MetaProp	Co-led construction-finance startup CoFi's US$7m seed (2022)

Commercial Observer cites a Wells Fargo projection of US$16.5bn in proptech private equity and venture funding for 2025, down from US$19.4bn in 2024, with investors favouring tools that show a clear return.

Who has backed Indian startups in the sector

Startup	Round	Investors named
Infra.Market	~US$125m Series D (2025); US$150m debt (2025)	Tiger Global (lead), with Accel and Nexus; Mars Growth Capital (debt)
Livspace	US$180m Series F (2022)	KKR (lead)
NoBroker	US$210m Series E (2021)	General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Moore Strategic Ventures
Snaptrude	US$14m Series A (2023)	Foundamental and Accel, with Fortius Ventures
Brick & Bolt	US$10m Series A2 (2023)	Accel and Celesta Capital
Powerplay	US$7.14m Series A (2022)	Accel (lead), Sequoia Surge, India Quotient
Design Cafe	US$25m Series B (2021)	WestBridge Capital (lead), Sixth Sense, Fireside
Bandhoo	₹7.35 crore pre-Series A (2024)	Venture Catalysts

As reported at the time of each round.

Accelerators and competitions

Construction Startup Competition: run by Cemex Ventures with partners including Caterpillar, Ferrovial, Hilti, NOVA by Saint-Gobain, Trimble and Zacua. The 2025 edition drew 563 applications from 54+ countries and picked 13 winners, who pitched at industry events.
Plug and Play Real Estate & Construction: launched in 2018 with Cushman & Wakefield as founding partner; corporate partners pilot startups' products.
Suffolk BOOST: the builder Suffolk's accelerator, which Construction Dive reported had featured 30 startups by 2025.

Before you pitch

Check each investor's current focus and fund on their own site: strategies change, and a deal from a few years ago doesn't mean they're investing now. This is general information from published sources, not legal, tax or investment advice.

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Schemes, amounts and investors change. Check the official page before you apply or pitch.