A multimillion-euro construction mistake can begin with something surprisingly small: one sentence in a specification that does not match a drawing, buried somewhere inside hundreds of pages nobody had enough time to cross-check.
General contractors live with that problem on every major project. Sales teams, estimators, procurement specialists and site managers work across drawings, specifications, bills of quantities, tenders and subcontractor offers that can contradict one another. According to UVC Partners, these teams can spend around half their time finding and interpreting project information, while overlooked inconsistencies can ultimately become the contractor’s financial problem.
Berlin-based Kuro Technology has now raised €10 million, led by UVC Partners with participation from Foundamental, Realyze Ventures and helloworld, to build software around that information problem. Six of its 12 customers are already among the 20 largest general contractors in the German-speaking region, according to the investor announcement.
Kuro’s approach is more ambitious than adding a chatbot to a document repository. The platform processes construction documents and connects them into a common data model, then overlays the contractor’s own rules: how it defines building components, evaluates risk, structures work packages and makes recurring decisions. A correction made by an estimator can therefore become part of the company’s rulebook rather than disappearing into a finished project folder.
That matters because construction has two information problems at once. Project data is fragmented, and expertise is often trapped inside individual employees.
Kuro founders Lea Scherer and Jonas Minkler spent years working at the intersection of construction and technology before starting the company. Lea Scherer previously held a leadership role at construction-tech company alcemy, while Jonas Minkler came from Capmo. Their argument is that general contractors do not merely need faster document search; they need a system capable of preserving how experienced teams interpret those documents and applying that knowledge again.
The first proving ground has been estimating, where a project can be won or financially damaged before construction begins. Kuro can compare drawings with specifications, identify contradictions, analyse what needs to be built, surface project risks, enrich components in 3D models, process public tenders and evaluate subcontractor bids. The company says customers report roughly 90 hours saved per estimate, while 70% of users say Kuro surfaced information they otherwise would have missed. Those figures are customer-reported through Kuro and have not been independently audited.
Köster CEO Nils Köster described the value less as pure productivity and more as earlier risk visibility: the company can price more bids with the same team, he said, but the bigger benefit is spotting tender risks before submitting a price.
Kuro’s own platform positioning shows where the company wants to go next. It describes its software as modular infrastructure connecting data, systems and people, with current use cases spanning sales, construction estimating and procurement. Kuro says its workflows can reduce manual work by as much as 80%, while its platform is designed around construction-specific documents, company-specific business logic and transparent AI outputs that users can trace.
The €10 million round therefore backs something larger than faster tender analysis. Kuro is expanding from estimating toward procurement, accounting, compliance and other back-office workflows, with the goal of creating an intelligence layer that improves as more projects pass through it.
Construction has spent decades storing completed projects as files.
Kuro’s bet is that the next generation of general contractors will store them as knowledge.
And if that works, the value of AI will not simply be finding information faster. It will be making sure the company does not have to learn the same expensive lesson twice.
About Kuro Technology
Kuro Technology is a Berlin-based construction AI company founded in 2024 by Lea Scherer and Jonas Minkler. Its platform helps general contractors structure fragmented project information, automate document-heavy workflows and preserve company-specific construction knowledge across projects. Customers named by Kuro and UVC Partners include Goldbeck, Hochtief Infrastructure, Köster, Implenia, Geiger and Riedel. The company states that its platform is GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001 certified and hosted in the EU.
