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Our library of thoughts about everything AECS-Tech, spanning design, construction, renovation, blue-collar and robotics, B2B marketplaces, supply chains and logistics. Plus the occasional sneak peeks into the Foundamental family life.

Practical Nerds

The latest in venture and technology in the real world, from construction-tech to design-tech. Two early-stage investors shooting the breeze about startups, founders and venture funding. We talk about design, construction, renovation, blue-collar, robotics and supply chains. Hosted by Patric Hellermann and Shub Bhattacharya, General Partners at Foundamental

Practical Nerds Podcast

AEC_VC

Reflections of a VC in AEC technology (architecture, engineering and construction-tech). What fascinated me last week.

AEC_VC Content

Stacking Atoms

"Stacking Atoms" is a series by Foundamental that explores construction's unique processes, hidden workflows, and unwritten rules across different segments and global markets. We don't aim to perfectly describe every detail, but rather to spotlight insights that help founders and innovators connect with construction experts around relevant workflows, removing unknown-unknowns and providing terminology that bridges innovation and industry expertise.

The Daily Blueprint

The Daily Blueprint is Foundamental's daily newsletter covering everything AEC tech globally — from startup funding and M&A to product launches, partnerships, regulation shifts, and industry trends across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. It's the daily signal on what's shaping the future of how we design, build, and operate the real world, while most competitors focus solely on the US market.

The Foundamentary

In what might be a world premiere - a VC firm allowing an external documentary team inside - Foundamental’s General Partners sit down with the Bricks & Bytes Documentary team for an unfiltered view into our ‘kitchen’.

From Foundamental’s unique origin story, over controversial takes on the future of AECS and venture, to the philosophies powering Foundamental’s decisions and portfolio success, this documentary series offers a first-of-its-kind behind the scenes access to the people, strategies, and hard-earned learnings of Foundamental.

Articles

Covering a spectrum of verticals on construction, 3D and design, including renovation, blue-collar workforce and robotics, supply chains and logistics.

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Vahak loads 14M Series A funding led by Nexus Venture
Open road transport marketplace Vahak announced $14M Series A funding as it scales operations focusing on supplier well-being and sustainability.
Press
Asia-Pacific
Supply | Marketplaces
Announcing Rayon’s Pre-Seed
Increasingly our work happens online, yet space design still does not. And if “online” rhymes with collaborative, lighter, and faster tools, the 30 million people working on floor plans every day still wrestle with software from the pre-internet era.
Press
Europe
Design | CAD | 2D | 3D
Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings
Speckle is also a developer platform on which you can harvest this 3D data and use it for productive things like building applications that make it easier to work with.
Press
Europe
Design | CAD | 2D | 3D
3D becomes FreeD: Speckle unshackles the global 3D creator economy
The world runs on 3D design. Somehow everyone seems to have an idea of what it is.
Articles
Europe
Design | CAD | 2D | 3D
Tiger Global leads $36 mn funding round in supply chain startup Wiz Freight
The startup said it plans to launch operations in 15 other countries, having its headquarters located in Singapore and Dubai.
Press
Asia-Pacific
Supply | Marketplaces
Snaptrude. Conceptual to design development
'In short, I’m impressed. Snaptrude is certainly worthy of serious investigation by any firm that is looking to take control of conceptual to design development workflows.'
Press
North America
Design | CAD | 2D | 3D
dis/agreed The Future of construction marketplaces
In this episode of our dis/agreed we discussed the future of construction marketplaces.
Podcast
Africa
Supply | Marketplaces
The Future of construction marketplaces
What a start into 2022. Today news broke that Tül had completed it's most recent growth round: $181M on an $800M post.
Articles
Latin America
Supply | Marketplaces
Colombian E-Commerce Startup Tül Nabs $800 Million Valuation
Tul, an e-commerce platform specializing in construction materials, raised $181 million in an equity funding round led by 8VC.
Press
Latin America
Supply | Marketplaces
Construction BNPL: The Opportunity of the Decade, Or Perhaps Not?
BNPL: These 4 letters have dominated tech news the past few months. Headline after headline, funding round after funding round.
Articles
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