VC Pi Labs Backs Five Agentic AI Start-ups Rethinking How the $13tn Construction Industry Operates

Pi Labs announces five new start-ups that will make up its 14th annual Growth Programme cohort after evaluating more than 1,500 applications from around the world.

Agentic AI presents an opportunity for the construction industry to close those gaps, and Pi Labs’ latest cohort is backing this conviction. Spanning the full construction lifecycle, from due diligence and planning approvals through to voice AI onsite data capturing, these five startups are automating the workflows that have held the industry back, bringing it one step closer to what Pi Labs calls the ‘Self-Coordinating Site’: construction projects that run themselves.

Pi Labs Fund IV is raising £100m to back AI-native companies transforming real assets and construction. Cohort 14 reflects Fund IV’s central ethos: that the next wave of value will be created by agentic AI companies that can automate the entire value chain.

Pi Labs selected the following five start-ups based on the calibre of the founding team, the potential to scale globally, and ability to deploy AI against the industry’s deepest pain points.

Veridue AI. – an AI platform built for energy infrastructure deals, delivering instant red flags across diligence

Bite – automates workflows for structural engineers, making the building design process 40x faster, allows engineers to focus on the work that actually requires their expertise.

AutoSitu (YC W26) – cuts planning approval timelines by 90% for developers and architects, by deploying coordinated AI agents to check zoning, building codes, and local compliance.

Movable – gives HQ direct insight to the frontline, using voice AI to interview deskless workers at the moments that matter: before shifts, when issues surface, and after a job is done, capturing what happens on the ground in real time.

Unbane – replaces construction admin with voice AI, turning phone calls into automated, audit-ready records that make construction coordination as natural as having a conversation.

Stefania Ponzo, Partner at Pi Labs, said, “Construction is one of the largest industries globally, yet productivity has remained effectively flat for decades. Digitisation has introduced tooling, but it hasn’t addressed the core issue of fragmented workflows across the value chain. Agentic AI is the breakthrough that will redefine these workflows, with our latest cohort leading this transformation. These five companies are thriving in the complexity that defines construction workflows, driving decisions and actions, not just insights. Our focus is on ensuring they have the right access to customers, partners, and operators, to translate technical capability into commercial outcomes.”