Unlimited Industries, a California-based AI-native construction company, has successfully closed a $12 million seed funding round co-led by top-tier venture firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and CIV. The capital injection is aimed at accelerating the deployment of Unlimited Industries’ proprietary AI platform, designed to dramatically reduce costs and construction timelines for critical U.S. infrastructure.
The investment underscores growing confidence in technology’s ability to solve the pervasive inefficiency plaguing the construction industry, where major projects often face significant delays and budget overruns. Unlimited Industries is pioneering a vertically integrated model, combining AI-driven design automation with its own engineering and construction teams to eliminate the misaligned incentives and costly manual handoffs typical of traditional firms.
Unlimited Industries’ platform leverages AI to generate and evaluate hundreds of thousands of design configurations in parallel. This process automatically identifies the optimal layouts for performance, cost, and safety, effectively reducing the pre-construction engineering time from months to mere weeks.
“The traditional construction model is slow, brittle, and fundamentally misaligned. Our approach replaces static design choices with a dynamic, data-driven process that learns from every project,” stated Alex Modon, Co-Founder and CEO of Unlimited Industries. “Advances in AI mean we can finally build the physical world the way we build software.”
Modon is joined by co-founders Tara Viswanathan (previously Co-founder and CEO of Rupa Health) and Jordan Stern (previously the first teammate at Rupa Health), bringing a strong track record of building and scaling successful tech platforms.
The company is already demonstrating significant impact. On a recent industrial project, the platform was able to identify an optimal design configuration that reduced projected capital costs by over 50 percent, illustrating the platform’s power to deliver greater design certainty and earlier starts on physical work.
In addition to co-leads Andreessen Horowitz and CIV, the funding round saw participation from other prominent industry investors.
“Unlimited Industries’ vertically integrated, AI-first approach represents a paradigm shift, turning design and build into a rapid and continuous optimization problem,” said Katherine Boyle, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. “This is exactly the kind of innovation needed to restore America’s ability to build ambitious infrastructure at scale.”
Abhijoy Mitra, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at CIV, added, “The only way to have our existing workforce meet this moment [of infrastructure buildout] is to amplify their impact with the latest advancements in AI. Unlimited Industries is building the platform to accomplish this at scale today.”
📰 Editorial View: The Blueprint for a New American Industrial Age
The investment in Unlimited Industries is timely and strategically vital, addressing what is arguably the most critical bottleneck in the upcoming wave of American infrastructure and industrial construction: the inability to build rapidly and cost-effectively. As the U.S. embarks on multi-trillion-dollar buildouts spanning energy projects, data centers, and advanced manufacturing—projects essential for economic competitiveness and climate resilience—the conventional “cost-plus” construction model has become a systemic liability, rewarding inefficiency and delay.
Unlimited Industries’ commitment to being an AI-native construction company—not merely a software vendor—is the key innovation. By vertically integrating the AI design platform with the engineering and building teams, they eliminate the costly knowledge gaps and misaligned incentives that fragment the process. This integrated approach, which turns design into a continuous, data-driven optimization loop, mirrors the efficiency of modern software development, finally bringing the principles of agile iteration to the physical world. This fundamental shift from static engineering to dynamic optimization promises to unlock billions in savings and cut years from project timelines. The founding team’s pedigree—combining deep engineering expertise (Alex Modon) with proven high-growth software scaling ability (Tara Viswanathan and Jordan Stern from Rupa Health) —suggests they have the necessary talent to execute this complex vision and deliver the radical physical abundance that America’s future demands.
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