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Our library of thoughts about everything AECS-Tech, spanning design, construction, renovation, blue-collar and robotics, B2B marketplaces, supply chains and logistics. Plus the occasional sneak peeks into the Foundamental family life.

Practical Nerds

The latest in venture and technology in the real world, from construction-tech to design-tech. Two early-stage investors shooting the breeze about startups, founders and venture funding. We talk about design, construction, renovation, blue-collar, robotics and supply chains. Hosted by Patric Hellermann and Shub Bhattacharya, General Partners at Foundamental

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AEC_VC

Reflections of a VC in AEC technology (architecture, engineering and construction-tech). What fascinated me last week.

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The Foundamentary

In what might be a world premiere - a VC firm allowing an external documentary team inside - Foundamental’s General Partners sit down with the Bricks & Bytes Documentary team for an unfiltered view into our ‘kitchen’.

From Foundamental’s unique origin story, over controversial takes on the future of AECS and venture, to the philosophies powering Foundamental’s decisions and portfolio success, this documentary series offers a first-of-its-kind behind the scenes access to the people, strategies, and hard-earned learnings of Foundamental.

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Covering a spectrum of verticals on construction, 3D and design, including renovation, blue-collar workforce and robotics, supply chains and logistics.

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If you ever get exhausted by our takes on the real world, here’s what the real world says about itself.

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Pre-construction automation: Taming the code with code
With Foundamental we are investing under a clear thesis for the construction sector: we believe in autonomous supply chains in AEC.
Articles
Markets Observatory
Automating construction: Why function follows form
In almost all discussions we had at Foundamental in 2019 with strategics, the topic of robotics and automation in construction came up this year.
Articles
Robotics | Hard-Tech
Communication on construction sites: Supervisors are super-heroes
Since 1990, the real value added per construction labor hour has dropped by 23%. One fundamental reason is the opacity and fragmentation of construction workflows and activities — making sharing of information (aka communication) difficult.
Articles
Workforce | Blue-Collar
3D construction printing to date: Chasing product-segment fit
Up until very recently, ConstructionTech has remained a new and surging space in the eyes of many horizontal VCs. At Foundamental we are recently having more of our friends at top tier horizontal VCs reach out to us as those firms begin to formulate in-house theses on our sector.
Articles
Robotics | Hard-Tech
Drivers in ready-mix concrete: Over-utilized but under-valued
Mixer drivers matter. A lot. The US ready-mix industry employs 75’000 drivers across ca. 5’600 plants. Drivers make up 56% of the entire US ready-mix workforce.
Articles
Workforce | Blue-Collar
Disputes in construction: No matter how thick you slice it, there will always be two sides
In Foundamental we look at more than 70 deals of early-stage tech companies in the construction sector per month across Asia, North America and Europe.
Articles
Markets Observatory
The Future Of Autonomous Vehicles: Off-Highway Sites
The hype around autonomous vehicles (AVs) is real. And, frankly, it should be. With billions of dollars being poured into AVs annually (a whopping $4.2B invested in the first 3 quarters of 2018), we’d be concerned if there wasn’t a hype.
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Robotics | Hard-Tech
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