Buildcheck, an AI-powered construction design review platform, has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Telescope Partners, with participation from WND Ventures, the corporate venture arm of DPR Construction.

Existing investors Uncork Capital, Salt VC and Xfund also participated in the round.

The new financing comes just nine months after Buildcheck's $5.9 million seed round, bringing the company's total funding to $18 million. The company plans to use the Series A capital to further expand the AI capabilities of its design review platform.

Using AI to Review Construction Designs

Buildcheck is developing AI-powered tools that help construction teams review building designs for potential problems before they become costly issues during construction.

The platform uses proprietary computer vision models to analyze construction drawings and identify errors, omissions and coordination conflicts.

The technology was developed by Buildcheck co-founders Alexander Michalatos and Alex Gureev.

Michalatos, who serves as the company's co-founder and CEO, previously worked as a mechanical and electrical manager at EllisDon. His experience working on complex hospital design-build projects helped shape the idea behind Buildcheck.

Hospital projects require coordination between architects, engineers and multiple construction trades, making design coordination particularly challenging.

Michalatos said his experience managing these projects exposed the need for better tools to identify design risks before they reached the construction stage.

Replacing Manual Design Review With Continuous AI Assistance

Construction design reviews have traditionally depended heavily on human specialists who manually examine drawings and look for inconsistencies, missing information and coordination problems.

Buildcheck is attempting to automate part of that process using computer vision.

The company's platform can review construction drawings and identify potential issues that may otherwise require significant amounts of human review.

Michalatos believes automated design reviews are becoming increasingly important as construction teams deal with growing workloads and increasingly complex projects.

The company's vision is to provide project teams with an always-available digital assistant that understands the broader project and helps identify problems throughout the design process.

WND Ventures Backs Buildcheck After Pilot

The participation of WND Ventures is particularly notable because the organisation is the corporate venture arm of DPR Construction.

According to Kaushal Diwan, a board member at WND Ventures, the investment follows a successful pilot of Buildcheck's technology.

WND's approach is to initially test construction technology products through smaller proof-of-concept projects before considering broader deployment.

The team saw Buildcheck improve its capabilities quickly during the pilot process.

Diwan said that improvement was an important indicator that the company could respond to customer requirements and align its product with DPR's broader design-to-build strategy.

For Buildcheck, the relationship provides more than financial backing. Working with a major construction company can provide a real-world environment in which the platform can continue to be tested and refined.

AI Is Becoming More Important in Construction

The construction industry has increasingly become an important market for AI applications.

Design review is one area where AI can potentially reduce repetitive manual work while helping project teams identify issues earlier.

Errors and coordination problems discovered late in a construction project can result in delays, additional costs and rework.

Buildcheck's approach is focused on identifying these issues during the design process.

Its computer vision models are designed to examine construction drawings and detect errors, omissions and coordination conflicts.

The company is therefore targeting a specific point in the construction workflow where better information and earlier detection could potentially reduce downstream problems.

Construction Technology Investment Continues to Grow

Buildcheck's Series A comes amid increasing investment in construction technology.

According to the source, global investment in construction technology reached a record $6.57 billion across 337 deals in 2025, based on data from Cemex Ventures.

The growth of the sector has created opportunities for startups developing software and AI tools aimed at improving traditionally manual construction processes.

Buildcheck's funding also demonstrates the growing interest in applying computer vision and AI to construction documentation and project coordination.

Building on Its $5.9M Seed Round

The Series A comes only nine months after Buildcheck raised $5.9 million in seed funding.

The rapid progression from seed to Series A reflects the company's efforts to refine its technology and demonstrate demand among construction customers.

The company says its platform has continued to develop as contractors have increasingly adopted automated design review.

With $18 million in total funding, Buildcheck now has additional capital to expand its AI capabilities and continue developing its platform.

A New Approach to Construction Design Reviews

The construction industry involves a large number of stakeholders, from architects and engineers to contractors and specialist trades.

Ensuring that designs work together across all of these groups can be difficult, particularly on complex projects.

Buildcheck's platform is designed to bring automated review into this process.

Rather than relying entirely on human teams to identify every issue, the company's computer vision technology can provide another layer of analysis across construction drawings.

The goal is not simply to replace human reviewers, but to provide them with an additional tool that can continuously examine designs and highlight potential problems.

For construction companies, this could help teams spend more time addressing important design decisions instead of manually searching through large volumes of documentation.

The Road Ahead

With $12 million in Series A funding, Buildcheck is entering its next phase of growth with backing from both traditional venture investors and a major construction industry player.

Telescope Partners led the round, while WND Ventures provides a strategic connection to DPR Construction and the broader construction ecosystem.

The company's next stage will focus on expanding its AI assistance capabilities and continuing to prove that automated design review can become a reliable part of construction workflows.

As construction companies look for ways to improve productivity and reduce costly design errors, Buildcheck is betting that AI-powered design review can become a standard part of how projects are planned and delivered.