# Building Ventures

> Building Ventures is a VC fund in Boston backing Software and Construction. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Fund size: $53M
- Last fund: Dec 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buildingventures/
- Website: https://www.buildingventures.com/

Building Ventures is a VC fund in Boston focused on Software and Construction. Building Ventures provides venture capital funding and mentoring to early-stage start-ups in the built environment space. Headquartered in Boston with an office in San Francisco, the team consists of investors, entrepreneurs and built environment veterans. As built environment pioneers, the Building Ventures mission is to champion disruptive ideasin the built environment to build a better world together. For more information, visit http://buildingventures.com and follow us on @buildingvc.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.4M–$8.7M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$23M |
| Series B | $1.5M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 28% |
| Construction | 15 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 13% |
| Energy | 6 | 10% |
| Real Estate | 6 | 10% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 20 | 33% |
| Seed | 16 | 26% |
| Series B | 7 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 8% |
| Series C | 2 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 57% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Finland | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Heather Widman | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-widman |
| Travis D. Connors | Co-Founder & General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/travis-d-connors |
| Allen Preger | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-preger |
| Chris Randles | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-randles |
| Gregg Wallace | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregg-wallace |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aston Labs | Aston Labs operates a decentralized utility organization working to build a carbon-free utility network. The company's platform is made to support 100% uptime, equality of access, zero carbon, digital currency, Defi, and metaverse, giving people access to modern life. | $20M | Series A | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Copper | Copper is a a battery solutions startup. | $28M | Series A | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Parspec | Parspec offers an AI‑powered platform that streamlines product selection, quoting, and submittal processes for sales agents and distributors in the construction supply chain. It provides tools like a Product Finder that identifies spec‑compliant items, a quoting module for streamlined bid creation, and an automated solution for submittals andO&M documentation. The platform operates on a credit‑based pricing model tailored to usage and supports tiered plans with features such as guided onboarding and multi‑location support. | $20M | Series A | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Station A | Station A is a clean-tech company that offers an AI-powered clean energy marketplace. Station A's technology automatically evaluates available clean energy solutions for any building, enables data-driven decisions, and sources the best offers from Station A's expanding provider network. The company was founded in 2018 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $8M | Series A | Jun 16, 2025 |  |
| Adaptis | Adaptis is a decision-support platform for whole life cycle carbon reduction planning of existing and new construction buildings.We increase ROI and lower costs for building owners and consultants working on decarbonization, circularity, and long-term resilience planning of their building projects and real estate portfolios.Adaptis generatesdesign solutions while simultaneously evaluating them across various performance metrics from early planning stages of a building adaptation, renovation to construction and maintenance planning. Using innovative and patent-pending methodologies, we optimize operational and embodied carbon, salvage value estimation, deconstruction planning, circular design integration and cost-benefit analysis. We:1) Get involved in the early planning stages of a project to assist building owners with decarbonization decision-making;2) Assist design and consulting teams with achieving decarbonization targets throughout design stages;3) Validate decarbonization goals during construction and occupancy; and 4) Track and optimize maintenance, capital planning and future adaptation during the project life cycle. Adaptis's analysis results in higher-quality design options when compared to a conventional consulting team. It accomplishes this while achieving a 20X increase in speed, significantly reducing the costs associated with assessing and implementing decarbonization projects. Moreover, it enhances return on investment by over 30% compared to traditional design, analysis, and decision-making procedures. | $4M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Faura | Faura offers Climate analytics and statistics to support and safeguard precious possessions. Faura lowers the risk of natural disasters for homeowners and insurers. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Joist AI | An operating system for construction marketing teams | $4M | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Clearstory.build | Clearstory’s mission is to help the commercial construction industry get extra work processed and closed faster in order to reduce risk, waste less time, and increase transparency. This is done through the industry’s only Change Order Communication and workflow Platform, which supercharges extremely manual workflows and connects companies outsideof their internal financial software to resolve change orders in real-time. Along with a collaborative cloud-based COR log with real-time messaging and PDF mark-ups, Extracker includes digital Time and Material Tags, standardized Change Order Templates, trackable Change Notifications, and more, to organize and streamline the process. The software can be rolled out by Subcontractors across their entire company or General Contractors and Owners can use the software by making Extracker a project requirement for their Subcontractors. | $16M | Series B | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Clearstory.build | Clearstory’s mission is to help the commercial construction industry get extra work processed and closed faster in order to reduce risk, waste less time, and increase transparency. This is done through the industry’s only Change Order Communication and workflow Platform, which supercharges extremely manual workflows and connects companies outsideof their internal financial software to resolve change orders in real-time. Along with a collaborative cloud-based COR log with real-time messaging and PDF mark-ups, Extracker includes digital Time and Material Tags, standardized Change Order Templates, trackable Change Notifications, and more, to organize and streamline the process. The software can be rolled out by Subcontractors across their entire company or General Contractors and Owners can use the software by making Extracker a project requirement for their Subcontractors. | $16M | Series B | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| SmartPM Technologies | SmartPM Technologies is an Atlanta-based real estate technology company that provides a real-time automated analytics platform. Founded in 2012, the company is located at 53 Perimeter Center E, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. | $5.5M | Series A | May 29, 2024 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Building Ventures invest in?

Building Ventures invests primarily in Software, Construction and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 61 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Building Ventures's check size?

Building Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$8.7M at Seed, $3.5M–$23M at Series A and $1.5M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Building Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Building Ventures?

Public channels for Building Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Building Ventures?

The team at Building Ventures includes Heather Widman (Partner), Travis D. Connors (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Allen Preger (Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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