Product Most Construction Robotics Builds a Robot for the Job. ZINOVA Wants Robots That Pick Up the Tools. A physical-AI research company launched on 14 September with a demo of experimental robots using existing construction tools on a tilt-up panel segment. Its bet is that the expensive part of construction robotics is building a new machine for every task — and that the fix is intelligence that outlives the robot's shape. Hugo Pegley · Sep 18, 2026
Funding Buildforce Raised $10M on Two Million Hours of Electricians A Series A led by Saepio Capital for a tech-enabled staffing platform placing electricians with commercial contractors. Seven years in, the traction number is hours worked — which is a harder metric to manufacture than most. Hugo Pegley · Aug 13, 2026
Funding Dili Raised $15M to Read Every Payroll Line, Not a Sample of Them Khosla Ventures led a $15 million Series A into a company selling something unglamorous: prevailing-wage and Davis-Bacon compliance for federally funded energy, data center and manufacturing projects. The pitch is that sampling-based auditing is a bet, and AI makes it unnecessary. Hugo Pegley · Aug 3, 2026
Funding DPR and Suffolk Technologies Invest in Skillit, Arguing Construction's Labor Problem Is Really a Data Problem Two of the most technology-focused general contractors in the country have made undisclosed equity investments in Skillit, an AI hiring platform with 190,000 vetted craft workers across 45 trades. Their thesis: the industry doesn't have a worker shortage — it has a broken market for finding the workers it already has. Hugo Pegley · Jun 25, 2026
