Suffolk Technologies
65 Allerton St, Boston, MA, 02119, United States
Overview
Suffolk Technologies is a venture capital platform funding the next generation of companies solving built environment challenges. To pave the way for a more productive and sustainable future, we deploy capital, resources, and networks to help daring founders grow and scale new technologies in construction, architecture, engineering, real estate, and infrastructure. Suffolk Technologies was recently recognized by AGC Partners as the #1 most active construction technology venture capital investor from 2018 to 2022. Led by Managing Partners Wan Li Zhu, Jit Kee Chin, and Puneet Mahajan, Suffolk Technologies invests in early and growth-stage startups transforming the built world across real estate and development, architecture, engineering and construction, property management, and smart cities. Leveraging Suffolk’s expertise and broad network of industry leaders, Suffolk Technologies partners with visionary founders to accelerate industry-wide adoption of breakthrough innovations ranging from pre-product to growth stages.
- Total investments
- 22
- Lead investments
- 4
- Investments · 12mo
- 6
- Active investors
- 11
Sector focus
- Building Material
- Construction
- Financial Services
- Green Building
- Infrastructure
- Real Estate
- Smart Building
Investment portfolio
- Higharc
Participated · Series C · Jun 2026
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.
- Handle
Participated · Series B · May 2026
Handle provides a verticalized finance and operations platform tailored to construction, centralizing lien rights, waivers, payments, invoicing, and compliance workflows. The company reports having processed more than $160B+ in construction invoices and financial workflows through its platform. Handle serves major construction and supplier customers including Ferguson, The Home Depot, EquipmentShare, Cemex, ABC Supply, Floor & Decor, US LBM, and Herc Rentals. Its long-term vision is to become the system that powers how money moves throughout construction. Handle is developing AI-driven workflow products and compliance automation and is expanding payments infrastructure as part of that vision. The company announced a $27 million Series B to fund those product and infrastructure expansions; the article lists founders Patrick Hogan, Blake Robertson, Chris Woodard, and Lucas Azevedo.
- Trayd
Participated · Series A · Mar 2026
Trayd offers a back-office operating system for specialty trade contractors that provides payroll, HR, scheduling, and field tracking tools. The platform handles complex wage calculations by trade, multi-state tax obligations, union rules, compliance reporting, and distinctions between state, federal, and private project scopes. Since launch, Trayd has reduced average weekly payroll processing time from 14 hours to 27 minutes, returning nearly two full days of back-office labor per workweek for customers. The product integrates with all major accounting and ERP systems and is available to specialty trade contractors across the United States. Trayd was founded in 2021 by Anna Berger and Cara Kessler and is headquartered in New York City. The company plans to use the Series A proceeds to accelerate product development and support national expansion.
- Certivo
Led · Seed · Feb 2026
Certivo is building an AI-powered Compliance System of Record that replaces manual, fragmented compliance workflows with continuously operating intelligent automation. Its platform deploys an AI agent called CORA to automatically request, validate, and normalize supplier documentation, map regulatory obligations to product portfolios, and integrate data into ERP, PLM, and procurement systems. The system also monitors regulatory changes across jurisdictions in real time, shifting organizations from periodic, reactive reporting to continuous compliance operations. Certivo is initially targeting the built-world sector—manufacturers, contractors, and owners of construction projects—where evolving safety codes, PFAS regulations, and sustainability mandates are creating intense compliance complexity. Headquartered in Seattle, the company positions compliance as a strategic advantage that safeguards market access and corporate reputation. While still at the seed stage, the new capital will be used to accelerate product development, expand engineering and AI capabilities, and scale go-to-market efforts. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the announcement.
- nPlan
Participated · Equity · Oct 2025
Founded in 2017, London-based nPlan has assembled what it calls the world’s largest dataset of 750,000 completed project schedules worth more than $2.5 trillion across 10 countries. Its deep-learning platform generates probabilistic forecasts that surface hidden risks before they cause costly delays, a capability the company says has already saved clients over $1.2 billion on active projects valued above $500 billion. Flagship customers include Chevron, Shell, MTR Hong Kong, NEOM, HS2, Network Rail, the Transpennine Route Upgrade and Anglian Water. Beyond its core risk-prediction engine, nPlan has launched Barry (an AI decision-support assistant), Schedule Studio (a generative AI tool that turns scope documents into full schedules in seconds), Insights Pro (forecasting and risk management) and nPlan Portfolio (portfolio-level risk analysis). The new capital will expand the London headquarters and grow the footprint in North America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific while accelerating R&D in predictive and generative AI. Notable angel backers include Sir Demis Hassabis, Sir Ian Davis and Lord David Prior, and earlier institutional investors include GV, Pentech Ventures and LocalGlobe.