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Shadow Ventures

3340 Peachtree Rd NE Ste 1010, Atlanta, Georgia, 30326, United States

Overview

Shadow Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology startups creating digitization, automation, and decarbonization in the world's largest – yet least innovative asset class – the $300 trillion built environment. Launched in 2018, Shadow has made 23 early stage investments into the built environment market, deploying north of $20M in capital. Our management team has a deep background of building technology and companies in the built environment – founder KP Reddy is a sought after expert on construction and real estate technologies, having built and taken public companies in the space before literally writing the textbook on BIM (a now ubiquitous construction technology). The built environment has been historically underserved by venture capital, but we are at the precipice of exponential technology growth in these markets due to a number of crucial problems including shrinking margins, a growing labor shortage, and pressures (both economic and regulatory) to decarbonize. These problems can only be solved with technology.

Total investments
22
Lead investments
9
Investments · 12mo
3
Active investors
3

Sector focus

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Construction
  • Financial Services
  • Incubators
  • PropTech
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Eztia Materials

    Led · Seed · Oct 2025

    Eztia Materials develops and manufactures HydraVolt™, a tunable polymer-gel that can be embedded into clothing and gear to absorb body heat and cut skin temperature by roughly 10 °C for as long as eight hours of strenuous activity. The material recharges with ordinary water, making it practical for use in construction, defense, public safety, and other heat-exposed industries. Current customers and pilot partners include PSA Singapore, Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs, Japan’s Kajima Construction, California-based Muller Construction Supply, and units of the U.S. military. The company cites a global market need driven by rising heat stress, which causes nearly 500,000 deaths annually and an estimated $100 billion in U.S. productivity losses. Proceeds from its recent financing will help scale manufacturing capacity and accelerate international expansion, especially across Asia. Headquartered in San Francisco, Eztia is led by CEO and co-founder Tiffany Yeh and supported by physicians and materials engineers. While revenue figures were not disclosed, the firm is focusing resources on commercializing HydraVolt and broadening its customer base in construction, logistics, and defense.

  • Track3D

    Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

    Founded in 2022, Track3D consolidates imagery and scans from 360° cameras, drones, laser scanners, and LiDAR-enabled smartphones into a cloud platform that applies advanced AI to generate progress tracking, work-in-place validation, and performance analytics tied to project drawings and quantities. The system gives owners, general contractors, and trade partners a shared operating system that improves collaboration, reduces disputes, and keeps projects on schedule and within budget. The company’s product has been deployed on more than 400 construction projects and has secured multi-year enterprise agreements with blue-chip customers. Track3D reports a 10× year-over-year ARR increase, highlighting rapid commercial traction. Headcount has grown from the original three founders to over 130 employees, with significant R&D carried out by its India team. Future plans include launching AI-powered deviation detection, early delay warnings, and intelligent agents to shift monitoring from reactive documentation to proactive project intelligence. Track3D has raised a total of $14.3 million to date.

  • MagicDoor

    Led · Seed · Sep 2025

    MagicDoor offers an AI-native, fully integrated property-management platform that unifies listing vacancies, payments, maintenance dispatch, vendor sourcing, compliance and tenant communication into a single system. The platform automatically triages requests, dispatches appropriate vendors and updates tenants in their preferred language, effectively executing work across systems rather than acting as a simple chatbot. Since launching in late 2024, MagicDoor has seen triple‑digit monthly growth and customers report up to a fivefold productivity improvement. The company describes its architecture as “open at the boundaries,” enabling it to adopt new AI models as they emerge and continually improve the product. The recent seed funding will be used to accelerate product development and hiring as MagicDoor scales to meet demand. Founder and CEO Kasper Søgaard is leading the company from Las Vegas and has added three new board members to support growth. MagicDoor offers an AI-native property management software platform that consolidates all property management functions into a single place. The platform uses AI to optimize efficiencies and automate and streamline property manager tasks. It provides a transparent pricing model of $2.50 per unit per month with no additional fees, no onboarding costs and no minimums. The company raised over $2M in Pre-Seed funding to accelerate growth. MagicDoor plans to use the funds to develop additional features in its AI-powered solution and to accelerate sales, marketing and onboarding efforts. The company was founded by Kasper Sogaard and is based in Las Vegas, NV.

  • Automated Architecture

    Participated · Equity · Jun 2025

    AUAR combines compact robotic Micro‑Factories with proprietary MasterBuilder software to automate design-to-manufacture for timber homes. Builders rent Micro‑Factories that locally produce full timber structures in about 12 hours, cutting on‑site labour by up to 75% and lowering costs by 30–40%. The platform automates planning, fabrication, and project workflows to increase speed, control, and capacity across the construction value chain. In the past year AUAR worked on over 300 homes and delivered multiple projects in Belgium while developing a research facility called “ConstrucThor.” The company plans to scale its team and partner ecosystem and launch operations across Benelux, DACH, and the Nordics. By 2030 AUAR aims to have customers produce over 100,000 carbon‑negative homes in more than 10 geographies. AUAR develops an automated construction platform that combines Robotic Micro‑Factories with AUAR MasterBuilder, a design-to-manufacturing software suite. The product aims to increase efficiency, predictability and oversight while reducing financial risk and environmental costs for the construction value chain, homebuilders, developers and manufacturers. Led by CEO Mollie Claypool, the company focuses on manufacturing mid-rise timber housing. AUAR plans to scale up its building system and micro-factory platform to produce buildings up to six storeys. The company received a £341K Smart Grant from Innovate UK to support that effort. A 14-month project beginning January 2025 will develop a mid-rise prototype for testing, performance evaluation and regulatory compliance. Automated Architecture is a London‑based tech company (founded in 2019) developing a distributed micro‑factory network for sustainable timber housing. It licenses low‑CapEx robotic micro‑factories and an integrated tech stack to existing home builders, enabling local ecosystems of communities, contractors, architects and developers to produce low‑energy homes at scale. The company’s model aims to deliver high‑quality, sustainable timber homes at costs comparable to normal homes by increasing margins and productivity through robots and AI. Management says the solution lowers end‑user costs while helping construction companies meet sustainability targets. The company will use the new funding to grow its partner license network by ten more partners and to expand operations in the US. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article.

  • Occuspace

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2025

    Occuspace builds an occupancy intelligence platform for the built environment that uses plug-in WiFi and Bluetooth sensors and proprietary software to deliver real-time, AI-driven space utilization data. The sensors plug into wall outlets to avoid costly installations, and the company emphasizes a 100% anonymous, privacy-first approach. Occuspace serves dozens of Fortune 500 companies and more than 100 colleges and universities, and is expanding its service to higher education, corporate real estate, and government facilities in North America and Europe. Since launching from a university technology competition in 2017, the company has grown rapidly, reporting year-over-year growth of more than 100% since 2021. Occuspace says its data helps facility managers save thousands, if not millions, of dollars by reducing wasted space, improving efficiency, and lowering environmental footprints. The company has raised $14 million to date and positions its product as scalable for massive real estate portfolios. Occuspace is a Los Angeles-based developer of occupancy management technology led by CEO Nic Halverson. It provides an occupancy management solution that helps customers measure and optimize the use of their physical spaces to improve utilization, make informed operational decisions, reduce real estate costs, and enhance visitor experiences. The product features privacy-friendly IoT tracking technology and a consumer iOS and Android app, Waitz, which allow institutions, property owners, and patrons to monitor crowd levels in real time. Customers include UC San Diego, UCLA, Columbia University, Purdue University, Boston College, Baylor University, and others. The company raised $3.6M in Seed funding and plans to use the proceeds to enhance business development and further expand its business reach. Occuspace intends to continue expanding into corporate office, multifamily, travel, government, and retail verticals where it has established product-market fit.

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