LeanCon raises $6 million Seed to accelerate AI-driven pre-construction planning

Startup doubles its target as investors back technology that compresses months of planning into minutes.

LeanCon, an AI startup seeking to overhaul one of the construction industry’s most entrenched bottlenecks, has raised a total of $6 million, doubling its original Seed target. The round was led by Ibex Investors, with participation from Fusion VC, Newman Architects, TCA LA, Connecticut Innovations, Siegel Capital, and a group of sector-focused angel investors, including Phil Bernstein, former Autodesk executive and Deputy Dean at the Yale School of Architecture.

Founded by engineers Ziv Levi and Sapir Tubul, LeanCon is positioning itself as the world’s first AI-powered pre-construction engineering team, offering a platform that aims to convert one of the industry’s slowest, most complex phases into a rapid, data-driven workflow. Pre-construction planning for bids typically spans months, with teams evaluating hundreds of opportunities and seeing only a small fraction materialize. LeanCon’s system compresses that process to about seven minutes, generating detailed projections on cost, schedule, logistics, and construction methods.

The company says its approach cuts planning costs from roughly $2 million to near zero, while boosting efficiency, win rates, and the volume of projects firms can realistically pursue. Its technology is already deployed across $650 million in development projects in New York.

“Construction projects are simply too complex to plan optimally and, until now, the system wasn’t built for that complexity,” said CEO and Co-Founder Ziv Levi. “LeanCon has rebuilt construction planning with AI and will ultimately save project teams time and money while simultaneously winning more development bids.”

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