Attentive.ai just pulled in a $30.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, and this isn’t some run-of-the-mill “AI meets construction” headline, it’s a tectonic shift. Picture a $3T industry still doing manual takeoffs like it’s 1989, then drop in a platform that can read blueprints, quantify materials, and deliver ±1% accuracy faster than your coffee machine can finish brewing. That’s Beam AI, the flagship product redefining what efficiency looks like when algorithms start doing heavy lifting in hard hats.
Founded in 2017 by IIT Delhi grads Shiva Dhawan (Co-Founder & CEO) and Rishabjit Singh (Co-Founder & CTO), with early groundwork by Sarthak Vijay, Attentive.ai didn’t start in construction. They cut their teeth in geospatial AI, mapping the planet pixel by pixel. Then came their “Eureka moment”: contractors and outdoor service pros were stuck in the Flintstones era. So they pivoted hard, launching Beam AI to automate takeoffs, and the results hit like a jackhammer through legacy workflows.
Under Shiva Dhawan’s precision-driven leadership and Rishabjit Singh’s technical firepower, Attentive.ai scaled across continents, HQ in Wilmington, Delaware, with its AI heart beating in Noida, India. By 2024, 1.2K+ companies across the U.S. & Canada were using Beam AI to save 90% of their takeoff time, claw back 15–20 hrs a week, and double bid capacity without adding headcount. That’s not a “feature upgrade”, that’s productivity on steroids.
Insight Partners led the charge on this round, joined by Vertex Ventures, Tenacity Ventures & InfoEdge Ventures, the kind of investors who don’t chase hype; they fund inevitability. Nikitas Koutoupes, Managing Director at Insight, said it best: “Attentive has established itself as a clear category leader in AI-driven construction takeoffs. Its combination of advanced AI with human-in-the-loop QA delivers immediate ROI.” Translation: no fluff, just ROI that slaps.
Aishwarya Maurya joined in 2020 and transformed Attentive.ai’s intuition into structured dominance, now steering Field Services as Co-Founder. With operators like Shawn Prince, VP of Enterprise Experience, and Yogesh Vats, Head of Finance, this isn’t a startup, it’s a precision machine scaling in real time.
The $30.5M infusion is fuel for evolution, expanding Beam AI beyond takeoffs into estimating, bidding & collaboration. Construction doesn’t need another app; it needs intelligence that scales. Attentive.ai isn’t automating jobs, it’s amplifying human output, bringing clarity to chaos & giving contractors something the industry’s lacked for decades: time.
