D-Tools has been building the digital scaffolding for electronic systems contractors since 1998. Long before “AI-powered workflow” was the buzzword du jour, Adam Stone was busy creating a platform that married product libraries with precision proposal generation. Back then, it wasn’t about chasing headlines. It was about giving integrators the tools to win deals, document them to the bolt, and deliver on time without losing their shirt in the process.
Fast-forward to today, and the company is stepping into a new gear. Concord, California based D-Tools just closed a $12 million Series C led by StellarIQ’s John Heyman, with continued majority backing from Greybull Stewardship and its founder Mason Myers. This isn’t a “just keep the lights on” raise. This is jet fuel for integrating StellarIQ’s AI muscle directly into both the on-premises System Integrator and the cloud-native D-Tools Cloud. The result? Predictive analytics, automated workflows, and smarter project insights that make guessing in business feel like a quaint relic from the VHS era.
D-Tools isn’t dabbling in a single sector. They’re serving more than 8,000 companies across 90+ countries, from commercial AV to higher education to government. That reach isn’t an accident. It’s the product of two decades building a category-defining library of 1.6 million SKUs from 1,200+ brands, tightly integrated into quoting, engineering, procurement, and service workflows. It’s a level of operational clarity that makes “winging it” look like an expensive hobby.
CEO Randy Stearns is driving the next phase with a focus on turning raw industry data into actionable intelligence. CFO Mark Pover is keeping the financial backbone as tight as the software’s code. CTO Pete Mitchell is orchestrating the tech vision so the AI roadmap isn’t a science fair project; it’s a competitive moat. And with StellarIQ’s Alon Goren bringing deep systems pedigree from his Radiant Systems days, this boardroom has the horsepower to execute at scale.
The Series C funds will also fuel the expansion of D-Tools’ Industry Information & Insights (I3) initiative, giving manufacturers, distributors, and buying groups benchmarking and market data that can’t be ignored. They’re hiring AI engineers, data scientists, and cloud specialists to deepen the platform while scaling global sales and support.
D-Tools has always been about connecting every dot in a project lifecycle. Now, with AI in the mix, those dots are about to start predicting the next move. For anyone still treating project management as a glorified spreadsheet, the message is clear: the tools just got sharper.
