Constructiontech
Serial founder who’s raised £17m breaks a year of silence with an AI bet on construction
London, 21 October 2026. He turned £40 into a multimillion-pound retail tech business, who also built Britain’s first life insurance app, Bequest, backed by Aviva. He was in the early team at Zego, which became Britain’s first insurtech unicorn. Now, after a year of silence, James Buckley-Thorp is back, and he’s going after the £200bn […]
Kuro Raises €10M to Build AI for General Contractors
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, […]