Bobyard just dropped a $35M Series A and the construction world felt the tremor. You do not raise that kind of round unless you are solving a problem contractors have been cursing at for decades, and CEO Michael Ding walked straight out of Stanford, looked at the blueprint madness, and decided the industry deserved something better than broken workflows and coffee-fueled all-nighters. Congrats to Michael Ding and the engineering leadership team for building a platform that treats takeoffs the way a grandmaster treats a chessboard, seeing moves the rest of the field did not even realize were on the table.
The beauty of Bobyard is how quietly it rewires preconstruction. Contractors slash takeoff times by an average of 65%, suddenly generating bids in minutes instead of hours. Estimators who once crawled through PDFs now move 3 to 5x faster, stacking revenue opportunities instead of drowning in admin. Chopper Landscaping proved the point when John Barrett used Bobyard to win roughly $350K in new commercial work, while K&D Landscaping pushed it even further with a 20%+ revenue bump under founder Justin White. Smith & Enright clocked 65% faster takeoffs, and New Path Landscape multiplied its bid volume by 5. When results start reading like cheat codes, you know a system-level upgrade has landed.
Investors did not miss the signal. 8VC and Joe Lonsdale led the round with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what happens when AI meets an industry still running on muscle memory. Pear VC, Primary Venture Partners, Tishman Speyer, RXR Arden Digital Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, and Merrick Ventures piled in, and you can feel the conviction from early champions like Mar Hershenson and Jason Shuman who backed Michael Ding long before “takeoff automation” became the phrase keeping contractors awake at night. This is what happens when sharp money spots a market that is finally ready to modernize.
Bobyard’s proprietary computer vision and NLP models read drawings the way seasoned estimators do, but without fatigue or guesswork. Pattern Search, launched in June 2025, turns the most tedious parts of landscaping plans into instant clarity, auto-generating polygons and area totals with the accuracy of a machine and the instinct of a veteran. With a roadmap extending into drywall, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and framing, the platform is positioning itself as the AI backbone for an entire industry, not just a single trade.
The $35M is fuel, but the momentum is the headline. Bobyard is giving contractors something they have not had in a long time: room to breathe, space to win, and tools that make confidence standard instead of aspirational. The takeoff world just got yarded into the future, and the runway ahead looks wide open.
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