The BUILDOPS commercial services platform becomes a single -century, collects $ 127 million

Commercial services technology was not considered “exciting”, but the need to innovate in space is enormous.

This need to collect large donations has been translated into a company that focuses on simplifying commercial contracts. On Friday, Buildops, who are developing programs for commercial services contractors, announced that it raised $ 127 million in a tour of the series C led by the company that estimates the company one billion dollars after money.

This evaluation is “more than twice” that was reached in the financing of the evaluation in its last financing-a round of $ 50 million in May in May of 2023 and increased “higher” $ 36 million for current investors only, according to Alok Chani, co-founder and CEO. The latest capital pump brings the total company, which rose to more than $ 250 million.

Founded in 2018, Los Angeles -based Buildops built field services management programs that help commercial contractors in the United States and Canada with project management, service, transmission and invoices through what it describes as “automation supported by artificial intelligence.” The company claims that its program helps contractors, including HVAC, plumbing, mechanical and electrical, fire and life safety, increase efficiency, make less expensive errors, reduce stopping time, and achieve high profitability.

“I speak to the contractors every day (…) and they violate their appearance in operating our world, but the deck is stacked against them with short employees, high costs, and technology is stuck in the Stone Age,” Chanani said in an interview.

Chanani previously established a commercial real estate group called USA Commercial. Participant founder Niraj Mittal was the former director of engineering at Servicitan. As for the third co -founder of Buckops, Steve Cheo, he spent Microsoft and Nextag and Finance.

Metal is no longer with the company, according to LinkedIn.

Buildops works on a software model as a service (SAAS) with pricing for each organized user as part of an annual contract. The company owns more than 1,000 commercial contractors, including JH Kelly, Haynes Mechanical and Dynamic Systems, Inc. And Baker Electric.

Chanani refused to reveal solid revenue numbers, but noticed that since the company launched its platform in 2020, Buildops has grown significantly, bypassing “seven numbers” in revenue in the first year, then three times this number in 2021 and 2022. Revenue doubled later in 2023 and 2024.

Buildops is not yet profitable because it focuses on “limited and aggressive investment in the future,” according to Shanani.

In the future, Buildops plans to use new capital to expand the number of employees, invest in products and technology development, especially its API structure. He also looks forward to what Chanani described as “strategic acquisitions.”

Currently, in Buildops there are about 375 employees, an increase of 50 % compared to last year.

For the General Meritech Capital partner and co -founder Paul Madeira, commercial services are “a huge and decisive segment of our economy that have been sadly services by modern programs.”

“Alok and Buildops saw this opportunity early and build the most complete commercial services operating system in this industry,” said Madeira, who joins the Board of Directors as part of the financing. “What we hear from large and small contractors is that Buildops did nothing less than converting their operational and financial work. Most importantly, allows them to better serve their customers.”

Techcrunch told that his company has also been attracted to the fact that Buildops focused exclusively on the commercial sector.

He said: “Every customer (…) does things a little different, which means that the program must be very compromised, like any other basic registration system.” “Buildops named this balance between the depth of the product, flexibility and ease of use in a really unique way.”

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New Ponders Bond Capital and Schneider Electric’s SE also participated in the C Buildops series, as well as Fika Ventures supporters, Next47, Stepstone Group, and Titanium Ventures. Former investors of Buildops 01A (known as the O1 Advisors, which is founded by Execs Execs Dick Costolo, Adam Bain), Founders Fund, Metaprop B Capital, 137 Ventures and Liquid 2.