Construct Capital is an early stage venture capital firm founded in 2020. We invest in extraordinary founders building technology to transform the most foundational industries of our economy — from manufacturing and supply chain to food and transportation — that drive half our economy’s GDP yet are failing to meet customer expectations. We are active investors seeking to invest at the Seed or Series A stage. Construct Capital was founded by Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt.
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Excited to share our Q1 recap this week! Nexxa.ai ARR grew 4x in Q1. 🫡 Extremely grateful to have the best industrial thought leaders as our customers! As this is a hot topic right now: We consider ARR as annual, paid upfront or quarterly, live, recurring contracts 😉
From Signalgate to the Iran war to the rapid advance of AI, demand for human verification has never been higher. Kibu's answer: human MFA. Their platform lets you confirm the identity of the people you're actually talking to, so you can build trusted connections without being fooled by AI or bad actors. The threat is crystallizing fast, and Kibu, Inc is building the infrastructure to meet it. Ari talked with Semafor about the importance of this trust infrastructure, and announced Kibu’s $10.5M Seed round, co-led by Construct, Cubit Capital, and Slow Ventures, and joined by angels like Nicole Perlroth, Judy Estrin, and David Carrico. If you want early access to the platform, reach out to us. https://lnkd.in/eTvxRuMw
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Excited to announce our $10.5m Seed round co-led by Construct Capital and Cubit Capital and joined by Slow Ventures and Helena, and angels including Nicole Perlroth, Judy Estrin, David Carrico, Fred Addy and others. New Kibu, Inc app is currently in an invite-only phase. Only someone who trusts you can invite you to join, so everyone on the platform has therefore been trusted by someone who is trusted. Thanks SEMAFOR for highlighting our work and recognizing the need for a new approach to identity.
Files are a solved problem — until you're working with terabytes of sensor data, training sets, or AI-generated content at scale. Construct is proud to co-lead Shade Inc.'s $15M round alongside Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures. Shade is rebuilding the file system from the ground up for an era where data from the physical world dwarfs anything legacy storage was built to handle. Their platform replaces the myriad of tools teams are stitching together, while also providing multimodal AI that turns dark archives into queryable intelligence. Brandon and Emerson saw what was coming before most, and built the infrastructure for it. Read more about why we invested: https://lnkd.in/e5k2aeMY
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Announcing our European expansion -- We're partnering with BS Service Group to bring Impulse to Europe with local manufacturing in Fabriano, Italy. They're our third Impulse Core partner, joining Thor Kitchen and Zephyr. The product is called Eximius. Four burners, 10 kW each, 15 kW total. Integrated downdraft (a first for us). Single-degree temp control. Magnetic removable knobs. And yes, it's a flat top. A European manufacturing partner means more SKUs, more markets, and a clear path to 100K+ units/y (BSSG ships through major global brands). We're VERY bullish on our tech's ability to accelerate (great) Italian manufacturing. Pre-orders open later this year. More coming soon.
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Today I’m excited to announce that we’ve raised $14M from Khosla Ventures, Construct Capital, and Bling Capital, bringing our total funding to $20M, to build what creative teams have needed for a long time: a single, intelligent file system that actually works. In the last decade, file systems have largely stayed the same. Creative teams deal with files scattered across storage silos, DAMs, review tools, archive drives—none of them talking to each other. You lose hours just finding the right version of something, shuttling files between systems, or babysitting uploads. Everyone in tech right now wants to build an AI "brain." We're building the memory—the foundational layer that every tool, pipeline, and agent plugs into and pulls from. And it's working. Hundreds of teams use Shade Inc. today. We've 10x'd our team, we're growing 200% quarter over quarter, and we're now ingesting over 50TB a day and 10 million minutes of video every month. With the new round of funding, we’re pressing harder to take back creative’s time. We're shipping major new features and redesigns this quarter—all aimed at making it effortless to find the exact file you need, access it from anywhere, and automate the busywork so you can focus on creating. 2026 is the year of the file system. 2026 is the year of Shade.
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Elated to be partnering with Core Bank to build Folio Pay! The entire team have been dream partners from day 1, and we can't wait to show you all the incredible things we have in store. Onward!
🌇 Hospitality teams know the reality: managing purchasing, inventory, and payments across multiple departments—often with fragmented systems—while margins stay tight and guest expectations remain high. That’s why a new partnership is underway with Folio, a procure to pay platform built for the operational realities of hotels. Folio helps teams gain visibility, reduce manual work, and keep operations moving without disruption.🤝 As Folio’s partner bank, Core Bank provides the secure, FDIC insured banking foundation behind their payment capabilities and virtual card programs. This partnership reflects a shared belief 💡 modern financial operations in hospitality should be both elegant and dependable. #Partnership #HospitalityFinance #EmbeddedFinance #ProcureToPay #Fintech #CoreBank
Every modern car is full of sensors. What happens to those sensors after a collision? Kinetic has the answer, and Business Insider took notice. Congrats to Nikhil Naikal and the whole Kinetic team on a great feature. Proud to back the team building the service infrastructure the autonomous future will depend on. https://lnkd.in/eCfNH7Bm
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This is exactly why we exist at Construct Capital. Backing founders like you Philipp Wehn who are rebuilding how the physical world operates, not incrementally, but from first principles. Industrial autonomy isn’t a feature, it’s a rewrite of how entire industries run. From Bavaria to industrial autonomy by 2030… let’s go Nexxa.ai 🚀
I came to the USA with a vision: building a generational company that has global impact on humanity! 🫡 So extremely proud of the team at Nexxa.ai that is putting in the work every single day to achieve industrial autonomy by 2030. Extremely excited to be working with Camila Saruhashi at Construct Capital and the amazing team at a16z speedrun as well as everyone else who is supporting us since day1 and everyday! We are locked in - thanks Rho 🫡 No - this is not AI. This was a life highlight last week for a guy from a small town in Bavaria 🐄 🏔️
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I came to the USA with a vision: building a generational company that has global impact on humanity! 🫡 So extremely proud of the team at Nexxa.ai that is putting in the work every single day to achieve industrial autonomy by 2030. Extremely excited to be working with Camila Saruhashi at Construct Capital and the amazing team at a16z speedrun as well as everyone else who is supporting us since day1 and everyday! We are locked in - thanks Rho 🫡 No - this is not AI. This was a life highlight last week for a guy from a small town in Bavaria 🐄 🏔️