Spotable has raised a €4 million seed round, which the Ghent company announced on 30 September and says it will spend on the product and on expansion into France, Germany and the United States. The Belgian business weekly Trends carried the full story the same day; Tech.eu reported the round a day earlier.
The notable feature of the round is how it was assembled.
Four Backers and a Broker
Spotable’s own announcement says “four investors are coming on board” and names them: the technology entrepreneur Jonas Dhaenens of team.blue; Christophe Morbee, a partner at NewSchool.vc; the family office of Hilde Cloostermans and Philip Corens; and Arne Vandendriessche, formerly chief executive of Signpost and now chief executive of Get Driven. The investment broker The Harbour guided the round.
The release lists its backers as individuals and a family office rather than as funds — Morbee appears under his own name, identified by his firm. That framing is itself uncommon for a €4 million European construction-software round: the comparable European rounds this newsroom has covered this autumn were each announced with a named lead fund — UVC Partners into Kuro, amberra into syte, Partech into Rayon.
It is also continuity rather than a fresh cast. Spotable’s earlier raise — €1.2 million, dated 29 April 2025 in the company’s own release — was led by NewSchool VC and the Corens-Cloostermans family, with the Vandermarliere family office, the Tillon family and Guy Serraes also participating. Both of those earlier leads are represented again — Morbee, of NewSchool, and the Cloostermans-Corens family office. Taken together, the two rounds Spotable has disclosed come to €5.2 million; that is our addition of the two published figures, not a cumulative total either announcement states.
A round assembled this way reads as a deliberate choice about control and pace rather than an inability to raise institutionally. It also fits the product, which is not a platform play that needs a decade of funding — it is a tool that replaces a specific afternoon of a tradesperson’s week.
The Eight Hours
The problem statement in Spotable’s release is a single measured quantity: “A roofer loses an average of eight hours per project to measuring and quoting by hand.”
The product is the removal of those eight hours. You enter an address. Spotable builds a 3D model of the roof or facade and returns, in the company’s own ordering, “the measurements, material takeoff, labor hours, cost price, your margin and VAT. What comes out is a quote you can send right away.” The release is careful to add the limit: “You still set the price.”
The earlier 2025 release describes the data underneath — satellite imagery, LiDAR and historical data — and at that point put the saving at three to four hours per quote rather than eight per project. Both figures are the company’s, measured against different units, and we report them as stated rather than against each other.
What makes the building envelope a good wedge is that it is the part of a structure you can measure from above without going there. A roof and a facade are externally observable geometry; a mechanical riser is not. That is why this category starts with roofers, solar installers and cladding contractors and not with electricians — and it is the same insight that syte applies at the plot level, turning an address into an answer about what can legally be built on it before anyone draws anything.
The commercial consequence is subtler than time saved. A roofer who can produce a credible quote without a site visit can bid on work they would otherwise have declined, and can decline work they would otherwise have driven to. Spotable sells a lead-qualification tool alongside the measurement one, described on its site as a way to “Quickly identify the best opportunities, so you only spend time on leads that are worth it.” Removing the site visit changes which jobs are worth pricing at all.
Two Years From the Wintercircus
The timeline, as the company tells it, is compressed even by startup standards. Sebastien Vandendriessche, Julie Dumoulin and Pieter-Jan Philips founded Spotable in September 2024, at Ghent’s Wintercircus, while they were still students. The first version was live three months later. The company has been selling since September 2025. A year after that it reports a team of 30, 350 customers — mostly roofing and facade contractors in Belgium and the Netherlands — and more than 10 million square metres of roof processed through the platform.
Those are the company’s figures and this piece does not attempt to audit them. Note the shape, though: one year of selling, 350 accounts. That is a volume motion, aimed at a contractor who makes the buying decision in an afternoon — the exact opposite of the tier-one enterprise sale that Kuro is running in the DACH market with twelve customers and a €10 million round announced the same day.
Both approaches raised money this week. They are not competing for the same budget, and the contrast is a useful reminder that “construction AI” currently describes at least two entirely different businesses.
Going to America at Thirty People
The expansion plan is the part that invites scepticism, and the founders appear to know it. France and Germany come after Belgium and the Netherlands. The United States, per the release, is already “past the planning stage”: Spotable says it tests its technology at American trade shows and has “an early commercial foothold there.”
Dumoulin’s reasoning, quoted from Trends, is the most revealing sentence in the announcement: “We don’t want to spend ten years building in Belgium and only then carefully take a look at America. If this can become a global company, we want to find that out today.”
That is a defensible position and an expensive one. It is also likely the hardest of the three markets. Aerial roof measurement is a long-established American product category — EagleView, which sells measurement reports and takeoffs to roofing contractors, advertises “25+ Years of Verified Property Intelligence” — so a European entrant arrives as a challenger rather than a novelty. Spotable’s argument is that it does not stop at the measurement — it carries through to the takeoff, the labour hours, the margin and the sendable document. Its own site also pitches distributors on integrating their catalogue so contractors see “real-time pricing and product availability”, which would make the material order part of the same flow.
Whether €4 million is enough to find that out across France, Germany and the United States simultaneously is the question the next year answers. The company has chosen to ask it early and in public, which is at least an honest way to fail if it does.
