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Buildots raises $130M to expand AI construction platform
Buildots has raised $130 million in a funding round led by O.G. Venture Partners, bringing its total capital raised to $297 million. The Tel Aviv company plans to expand its AI construction platform across large portfolios and the data cent
AI.info Team ·
Buildots announces a $130 million funding round on September 14, 2026, as construction companies face growing pressure to deliver data centers, advanced manufacturing sites and energy projects on shorter schedules. O.G. Venture Partners leads the round, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mohari Ventures, Human Capital, Qumra Capital, Avigdor Willenz, Viola Growth and Poalim Equity.
The new financing brings Buildots’ total capital raised to $297 million. The Tel Aviv company says it has maintained a multi-year run of threefold annual revenue growth and is now used by more than 100 large-scale firms, including Intel, Digital Realty, STO Building Group, JE Dunn, Mortenson, Bouygues and HOCHTIEF.
Buildots says it will use the money to expand across North America and Europe, extend its software across more stages of construction and build portfolio-level intelligence for owners and contractors. The company positions its system as a way to replace fragmented progress reports and manual inspections with a continuously updated view of work on site.
Buildots targets the construction bottleneck behind AI infrastructure
Buildots describes global construction as a $16 trillion industry tied to several major investment programs, including the buildout of AI data centers, the expansion of manufacturing, defense spending and new energy infrastructure. The company argues that projects in those categories have become more complex while their delivery timelines have tightened.
“It will soon be inconceivable that anyone managed a construction portfolio without Buildots,” Roy Danon, CEO and co-founder of Buildots, says in the announcement. “That shift was already underway before the AI buildout, but the buildout has poured rocket fuel on it.”
Danon says Buildots is being used across residential, commercial and mission-critical projects, ranging from individual sites to entire portfolios. He adds that the same visibility problem affecting large data centers has also delayed schools and hospitals, although the financial consequences are larger on major infrastructure projects.
Eight years of site data underpin the platform
Buildots says its AI models are trained on eight years of data from real construction sites rather than internet-scraped material or general-purpose models. The company’s computer vision systems process jobsite video alongside schedules, 3D models and site imagery, then classify hundreds of types of construction work.
The output is a digital twin of each project that gives construction teams a common view of planned and completed work. Buildots says the system can identify schedule risks, compare production rates with plans and help teams respond to delays before they spread across a project.
Buildots’ data center product page says its customers have tracked and analyzed 425 million square feet of construction and delivered 9.93 gigawatts of capacity across projects with a combined value of $88.3 billion. Those figures are presented by the company as platform totals.
Customers include Intel, Digital Realty and major contractors
The company’s customer list spans owners, contractors and firms involved in large industrial programs. Buildots names Intel and Digital Realty among the owners using its platform, alongside contractors such as STO Building Group, JE Dunn, Mortenson, Bouygues and HOCHTIEF. Its company description also lists Turner Construction among its customers.
Buildots says seven-figure, portfolio-wide, multi-year agreements have become standard for the company rather than unusual deals. That claim points to a shift from selling project software one site at a time toward contracts that cover many projects and multiple phases of construction.
Construction Dive, which reviewed the announcement, describes the product as software that turns captured jobsite footage into digital twins and combines that footage with project schedules and models. The publication also notes that Buildots raised $45 million in a Series D round in May 2025.
New investors join an expansion plan with three fronts
O.G. Venture Partners adds two new investors to Buildots’ shareholder base: Human Capital, a San Francisco firm that backs companies applying AI to physical-world operations, and Mohari Ventures. Existing investors include TLV Partners, Future Energy Ventures, Maor Investments and Tidhar.
Buildots says its expansion will move in three directions. The company plans to reach more large portfolios across North America and Europe, cover more of the construction lifecycle from bidding through handover, and provide executives with business-level intelligence across multiple projects.
Ziv Kop, managing partner at O.G. Venture Partners, says the firm looks for technology layers that other businesses come to depend on. “Buildots is that layer for construction, trained on a volume and quality of site data that nobody else has,” Kop says.
The financing gives Buildots more capital to turn its site-monitoring technology into a broader operating system for construction portfolios. Its immediate commercial case rests on a narrow promise: detect problems earlier, give project teams more time to respond and make progress data usable before a delay becomes expensive.