Funding His $300M LiDAR Startup Collapsed. One of the Same Investors Just Backed His Next One. Zabidou raised A$3.5M to put laser-and-camera quality assurance on factory lines making steel and concrete. Main Sequence backed founder Cibby Pulikkaseril at Baraja, watched it fall apart, and wrote the cheque again. Hugo Pegley · Aug 13, 2026
Funding Three Contractors Just Funded the Sensor That Grades Their Own Concrete GreenVibe raised $12 million to embed wireless sensors in concrete before the pour and report strength every 30 minutes. The notable part isn't the technology — it's that Tidhar, Shikun & Binui and Israel-Canada put money in alongside Insight Partners. Hugo Pegley · Jul 30, 2026
Funding Structured AI Raises $4.2M to Put an AI Quality Inspector on Every Drawing An Oxford-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup is building AI agents that review construction drawings for errors before they become RFIs, change orders, and rework — going after the least glamorous and most expensive problem on the job: getting the documents right. Hugo Pegley · Jun 18, 2026
