Funding BRKZ Raised $31M for Saudi Materials Procurement. More Than Half of It Is Debt. Wa'ed Ventures and 500 Global co-led a $13 million Series B equity round. Stride Ventures committed $18 million of growth debt alongside it. That split is the most informative number in the announcement, because it says what actually constrains a building-materials marketplace — and it is not engineering. Hugo Pegley · Sep 17, 2026
Funding HomeRun Raised $12M to Deliver Cement in Sixty Minutes — Without Offering Credit A Series A+ led by Nexus Venture Partners for a Bengaluru quick-commerce platform selling construction and interior materials. The interesting part isn't the delivery promise. It's that the company says it is growing without extending credit — the thing the entire trade runs on. Hugo Pegley · Aug 13, 2026
Funding SubBase Raises $7M to Own the Least-Automated Corner of Construction: Buying the Materials The Fort Lauderdale startup wants to be the system of record for how contractors order, track and reconcile materials — and is now layering AI on the pricing and supplier data that flows through it. FINTOP led the Series A, which brings total funding past $15 million. Hugo Pegley · Jul 21, 2026