OneCrew just locked in a $7.5M Series A, led by the sharp minds at Stage 2 Capital, with returning firepower from Entourage, Bienville Capital, and Alaris Capital. It’s not just another SaaS round; it’s a line in the pavement for an industry that’s been grinding on outdated tools and disconnected workflows for decades.
Founded in 2022 by Ari Bleemer (CEO, Stanford MBA, Bain alum) and Max Kostow (CTO, M.S. CS from UC Berkeley), OneCrew isn’t throwing tech spaghetti at a blue-collar wall. They’re building software as durable and precision-cut as the asphalt their customers lay. A unified platform where paving contractors can quote, schedule, track, cost, invoice, and analyze, without juggling twenty tabs and praying QuickBooks talks to the crew chief’s clipboard.
They’re not fixing a broken system. They’re replacing the entire patch job with clean infrastructure, start to finish. Think interactive maps for estimates, real-time crew assignments, mobile work orders, live cost analytics, automated invoicing, all synced and flowing from office to field, field to bank. It’s like going from CB radios and carbon copies to cloud-native SaaS with QuickBooks and HubSpot integrations. And they’re doing it without forcing contractors into tech they don’t want or workflows they don’t trust.
The results? Over 25,000 projects closed. $2.5B in proposals pushed through the platform. Estimating time slashed by 75%. And yes, real people are using it: DACS Asphalt & Concrete, AAA Paving, Texas Parking Lots, Buck Brothers, folks who don’t care what the software’s stack is, just that it works.
This round fuels what comes next: more muscle in engineering, AI-driven estimating, deeper API integrations, and a subcontractor management layer designed for real jobsite chaos. They’re scaling fast across North America with Europe in their headlights, UK, Germany, Benelux. The platform’s being localized for multicurrency, multilanguage workflows. This isn’t a road trip. It’s a global rollout on freshly paved logic.
Respect to Ari Bleemer and Max Kostow, building real tools for real businesses in an industry that doesn’t hand out second chances. And salute to Stage 2 Capital for knowing when a bet isn’t just smart, it’s overdue.
