Unlimited Industries, an AI-powered construction startup

 

· Company & Funding: Unlimited Industries, an AI-powered construction startup, raised a $12 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and CIV.

· Core Problem: The company targets slow, costly, and outdated workflows in legacy construction and industrial sectors.

· Solution: An AI-powered design platform that generates and evaluates tens of thousands of design configurations in parallel to optimize for cost, safety, and performance.

· Business Model: Vertically integrated, combining its AI platform with in-house engineering and construction teams. It uses fixed-price contracts instead of the traditional cost-plus model.

· Key Benefit: Dramatically compresses pre-construction timelines from months to weeks.

· Reported Result: In a recent case, AI-driven redesign reduced projected capital costs by more than half.

· Leadership: Founded by CEO Alex Modon, with co-founders Jordan Stern and Tara Viswanathan, who have a background in scaling startups to a successful exit.

· Target Customers: Early customers include young energy tech companies and large industry incumbents, particularly in data centers, mining, and power infrastructure, where speed is critical.

· Project Scale: Current live project values range from a quarter to half a billion dollars.

· Philosophy: Aims to make iteration and design changes a natural part of the process without financial penalty, moving away from cumbersome change orders.

· Investor Perspective: Andreessen Horowitz sees this as a paradigm shift, turning design and build into a "rapid and continuous optimization problem."

· Growth Plans: Plans to double or triple its team, hiring multidisciplinary engineers. Geographically focused on Texas for construction.

· Ultimate Goal: To compete directly with entrenched engineering and construction incumbents by demonstrating a fundamentally new and better way to build.