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
