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Construction is one of those industries that somehow made it to 2025 while still running on clipboards, walkie-talkies, and a healthy dose of optimism. Buildots, an Israeli AI startup founded in 2018, has been quietly assembling a war chest to change that. The company has now raised $166 million in cumulative funding, with Intel Capital serving as a lead strategic backer.
Intel Capital led a $15 million investment in Buildots in July 2024, which brought total funding to $121 million at that point. A $45 million Series D round followed in May 2025, pushing the total to its current figure.
What Buildots actually does
The platform works by combining 360-degree on-site cameras with AI-powered computer vision to create what’s known as a “digital twin” of a construction project. Think of it as a real-time, navigable replica of a building site that lives in the cloud.
That digital twin gets compared against the project’s Building Information Modeling plans and schedules. When reality starts drifting from the plan, the system flags it early. Project managers get actionable insights rather than unpleasant surprises three weeks too late.
For Intel’s semiconductor fabrication projects, Buildots has reportedly helped eliminate roughly four weeks of delays per project. Buildots claims its platform can reduce construction delays by up to 50%. The company serves around 50 construction firms, with a focus on large-scale projects like data centers and hospitals. Its client roster includes Intel, Turner Construction, and JE Dunn.
Why Intel cares this much
Intel’s involvement here is more than a financial play. The chipmaker has committed to a massive global construction program spanning multiple fabrication plants across the US, Europe, and beyond. McKinsey has previously estimated that large projects typically run 80% over budget and 20% behind schedule.
CEO Roy Danon co-founded Buildots alongside Aviv Leibovici and Yakir Sudry. The company currently employs between 200 and 400 people and has been expanding aggressively into North America, a market where the demand for data center construction alone has been surging thanks to the AI infrastructure buildout.
In October 2025, Buildots acquired Genda, a workforce and safety management platform. The acquisition added labor tracking and safety compliance tools to Buildots’ core monitoring capabilities.
A sector ripe for disruption
Buildots has reported quadrupled revenue growth in 2025. The company has stated its goal of standardizing what it calls “construction intelligence” as an operational norm across the industry by 2026.
The competitive landscape is worth watching. Other contech players like OpenSpace, Disperse, and Versatile offer overlapping capabilities in visual documentation and site monitoring. But Buildots’ combination of BIM integration, predictive delay forecasting, and now workforce management through the Genda acquisition gives it a broader platform story than most peers.
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