• Ply

  Led · Equity · Dec 2025

  Founded in 2022 by Dave Wigder and Darion Miller, Ply offers a software platform purpose-built for the trades that unifies inventory tracking, purchase orders, and automated replenishment. The tool gives contractors and service businesses real-time visibility into materials, aiming to save time, cut waste, and boost productivity. Ply’s solution integrates with key field-service and accounting systems, allowing customers to manage procurement within their existing workflows. According to the company, trade businesses across the United States already rely on the platform. With its latest capital infusion, Ply plans to expand advanced capabilities, deepen platform integrations, accelerate product development, and strengthen supplier partnerships. No user, revenue, or other operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

• Higharc

  Participated · Series B · Feb 2024

  Higharc builds an AI-native platform that generates homes as 3D spatial data, enabling builders to automate design, estimating, sales and construction document workflows. Its AutoTranslate AI converts floorplan images into rich 3D spatial models to produce precise quantity estimates and shoppable 3D models. Customers across North America report outcomes such as compressing product development timelines from months or years to weeks or days, cutting time to community open by 25–50%, and increasing margin by 10–15%. Higharc announced expansion of its AI Estimating product to building materials distributors and a partnership with US LBM as part of that push. The company has received industry recognition, ranking in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2026. Following the Series C, Higharc has raised more than $170 million in total capital to date.

• Greyter

  Led · Series B · Jan 2023

  Greyter Water Systems, based in Denver, CO, manufactures The Greyter HOME, an NSF 350 certified, fully automated water recycling system for family homes. The system captures water from showers and bathtubs, treats it to near-potable quality, and supplies clear, odor-free water for toilet flushing. The company also sells water reuse solutions for multi-unit, commercial, and industrial buildings. Led by CEO and founder Mark Sales, Greyter positions its product for builders focused on sustainable, water-efficient homes and communities. The business raised growth capital to scale operations and meet increasing builder demand. The company intends to use the proceeds to expand its ability to serve builders and projects seeking water-efficient solutions. Greyter Water Systems Inc. produces the Greyter HOME™, an NSF 350 certified household water recycling system that captures shower and bath water to be reused for toilet flushing. The system collects greywater, screens out hair and large solids, ultra-filters microorganisms and remaining solids, then processes the water to remove soaps and surfactants before storing it for toilet flushing. Excess greywater is sent down the drain, and the system can top up from municipal water lines when recycled water is insufficient. Led by CEO and co-founder Mark Sales, the company aims to reduce interior household water consumption by substituting treated shower water for drinking water in toilets. Greyter closed a $3 million Series A and plans to use the proceeds to scale the business, add staff, and expand inventory and production capacity. The company is based in Tucson, Arizona.

• Augmenta

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2022

  Augmenta provides a cloud-native AI design platform for the AEC industry that automates the sustainable design of buildings, with an initial focus on electrical systems. Its platform offers automated electrical system design services for design firms and subcontractors, aiming to reduce errors, rework, and costs. The company plans to expand the capabilities of its Electrical System Design (ESD) agent and accelerate development of Mechanical and Plumbing agents to deliver fully automated MEP/S design tools. Augmenta intends to use the new funding to build out its sales and support organizations to scale adoption. The company has a strategic partnership with ENG to automate electrical design modeling for subcontractors. The company is led by CEO Francesco Iorio. Augmenta develops the Augmenta Construction Platform (ACP), an AI-driven, cloud-based platform that automates building system design to generate error-free, constructible, code-compliant layouts in hours rather than weeks. Its first commercial module, the Electrical System Design (ESD) module, generates fully constructible electrical raceway routing for engineers and contractors and is on track for commercialization in Q1 2024. The platform uses artificial intelligence, including machine learning and mathematical optimization, and was founded by pioneers of generative design from Autodesk. Augmenta is running a formalized feedback program and commercial pilots with several electrical engineering firms and has a waitlist of almost 30 companies for its beta. The company plans to use the new capital to double its team over the next nine months across engineering, sales, and support, and to expand into adjacent plumbing and mechanical markets. It has been recognized as a Top 50 Preconstruction Future Disruptor by BuiltWorlds and was named to CB Insights’ 2023 AI 100 list. Augmenta has emerged from stealth with the Augmenta Construction Platform (ACP), a cloud-based platform that automates the design of building systems. ACP uses artificial intelligence, including machine learning and mathematical optimization, and generative design to produce error-free, constructible, code-compliant designs in hours instead of weeks. The company’s first product module is an Electrical System Design (ESD) module, for which a pilot program is being launched in partnership with Interstates, who co-designed and tested the module. Augmenta says ACP enables contractors and engineers to reduce material use, waste, and energy consumption by producing fully detailed, coordinated, and optimized designs. The company emerged from stealth after raising US$4.1 million in seed funding to accelerate ACP development, launch the ESD pilot, and grow sales, deployment, and customer-support teams. Augmenta was founded by an ex-Autodesk team that pioneered Generative Design and is based in Toronto.

• Bluon

  Participated · Series B · Jan 2022

  Bluon operates a mobile support platform and app that provides tools, training and 24/7 technical support for HVAC-R technicians and aggregates technical data on more than 45,000 HVAC models. The app is widely adopted: the company reports more than 175,000 downloads, 88,000 onboarded member technicians (growing by about 6,000 each month), nearly 30% of the U.S. market registered as members and roughly 2% of the market joining each month. Bluon has hundreds of distributors in its network and recently acquired XREF Publishing Company, expanding its reach within the industry. The company is developing an e-commerce platform called BluonLive and plans to invest the new capital in software development and rapid growth of its sales and technician support teams. Bluon positions itself to enable contractors to complete more jobs per day, addressing the HVAC-R skilled labor shortage and aiming to be the first brand-agnostic, demand-focused e-commerce platform for the $70B HVAC-R industry.

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