Unlimited Industries secures USD $12 million to automate US construction

Unlimited Industries, a company that uses artificial intelligence to modernise engineering and construction for infrastructure projects, has raised USD $12 million in a seed funding round. Backing was led by Andreessen Horowitz and CIV, with further support from other industry investors.

AI-driven construction

The company's proprietary AI platform is now being used on infrastructure projects such as data centres, facilities for critical minerals, and advanced manufacturing sites across the United States. The platform generates and assesses a broad range of design configurations simultaneously, enabling optimisation for cost, safety, and performance before building begins. This process aims to reduce project costs by millions of US dollars and shrink pre-construction timelines from months to days.

Unlimited Industries takes a vertically integrated approach, managing everything from engineering design to construction delivery. Its model focuses on replacing the segmented, manual processes that have characterised large-scale American construction projects for decades. The company already counts revenue-generating clients including both longstanding corporations and new sector entrants.

Sector inefficiencies

According to the company's founders, traditional construction models in the US have become increasingly slow and expensive. Large projects frequently experience delays and budget overruns, exacerbated by disconnected tools and manual workflows. Unlimited's founders say the use of AI and integrated teams is designed to address these industry challenges.

"Advances in AI mean we can finally build the physical world the way we build software," said Alex Modon, Co-Founder and CEO, Unlimited Industries.

On recent client projects, Unlimited's technology has reduced pre-construction engineering time from half a year to just a few weeks, and in one instance enabled an optimised design that cut capital costs by more than 50 percent. The company states that each project further refines its cost models, workflows, and AI-driven design tools.

Investor perspectives

Katherine Boyle, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, commented on the company's approach.

"The engineering and construction industry has remained largely unchanged for decades," said Katherine Boyle, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. "Unlimited's vertically integrated, AI-first approach represents a paradigm shift, turning design and build into a rapid and continuous optimization problem. This is exactly the kind of innovation needed to restore America's ability to build ambitious infrastructure at scale."

Abhijoy Mitra, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at CIV, also expressed support.

"We are in the midst of the largest infrastructure buildout of our generation, but constrained by our existing resource base," said Abhijoy Mitra, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, CIV. "The only way to have our existing workforce meet this moment is to amplify their impact with the latest advancements in AI. Unlimited is building the platform to accomplish this at scale today."

Business growth

The seed funding will be used to scale operations and further develop Unlimited Industries' technology platform. The company's founders include Alex Modon, Tara Viswanathan, and Jordan Stern, who all bring experience scaling technology businesses.

Unlimited states its aim is to automate construction end-to-end, making it possible to deliver large infrastructure faster and more cost-effectively, as demand for new data centres and energy infrastructure grows across the US.