Funding Archiboost Raised $6.2M for Drawing Review, Into a Category That Has Already Started Consolidating A San Francisco platform that reads PDFs and Revit metadata together announced a combined pre-seed and seed round on 3 November, led by Marathon Venture Capital and Hanabi Capital, though the two outlets covering it split on which firm led which round. The reports give no valuation and no total raised beyond the $6.2m. The interesting number is not the round — it is 550,000 drawing sheets. Hugo Pegley · Nov 4, 2026
Funding Dream Raised $17M to Sign the Drawings, Not Sell the Software The San Francisco company came out of stealth on 29 October saying it has served as architect of record on 10 projects in California and Texas and supported $20M in developments. Its head of architecture is, per the company's own page, a licensed architect in California and Texas — the two states in which it says it signs. Hugo Pegley · Oct 30, 2026
Product Archicad 30 Arrives With an MCP in Beta, a Third Subscription Tier, and a Cloud Platform Still Coming Graphisoft's 2026 portfolio pairs a conventional Archicad release — dark mode, multi-storey walls, label shapes — with an Archicad MCP its own product page marks (Beta) and a new Archicad Max plan aimed at 'AI & data driven practices'. The release itself files most of the AI under a roadmap. Hugo Pegley · Oct 8, 2026
Product Pirros Points Its Revit Agent at the Whole Set, and Its Reference Library Is the Argument A Quality Management System that reviews a live Revit project against codes, firm standards and specs, reported on 7 October, plus six new Mira skills the company shipped on 8 October. The pitch is not better checking — it is that Pirros already holds the details the check is measured against. Hugo Pegley · Oct 8, 2026
Funding Rayon Raised €10M to Put AI in the Drawing Rather Than the Render Partech led a €10 million Series A into the Paris company behind a browser-based CAD tool for interior designers and architects, taking its total to roughly €16 million. Version 4, due before the end of the year, adds 3D and agentic AI. The bet is about which artefact AI should attach to. Hugo Pegley · Sep 30, 2026
Product Geom Left Stealth With Four Named Homebuilders and a $5M Seed. The Target Is Drafting, Not Design. Shanna Tellerman founded Modsy and was Lennar's chief product officer before starting Geom. The company launched on 18 September with Pulte, Century Communities, Meritage and True Homes as collaborators and a deliberately unglamorous pitch: automate the weeks between a finished design and a permit-ready set. Hugo Pegley · Sep 23, 2026
Product Illoca Raises $13M to Kill the 'Production Tax' — an AI Canvas That Turns an Architect's Sketch Into Documentation Bessemer leads a seed round for a startup founded by a Google DeepMind design-AI researcher and Tesla's former BIM lead, betting that architects waste 60% of their week producing drawings instead of designing them. Hugo Pegley · Jun 13, 2026
