Acelab Raises $13.5M to Transform How Architects Choose Building Materials
Slice of Construction Team
10/22/2025
Key highlights
- Acelab raises $13.5 million Series A, led by Navitas Capital, with participation from JLL Spark and DivcoWest.
- Its AI-powered Material Hub centralizes and streamlines building material selection, used by over 20,000 design firms.
- Platform integrates AI-driven intelligence, collaborative workflows, and digital standards management.
- Backers include leading architects such as Kai-Uwe Bergmann (BIG) and Christopher Sharples (SHoP).
- Funding will accelerate AI expansion, software integrations, and international growth.
Source: Direct
Notable Quotes
“ Acelab’s Material Hub is emerging as the definitive platform for material selection. Acelab is ensuring architects, owners, and contractors select the best building products in a single collaborative workflow. ”
Travis Putnam, Managing Partner at Navitas Capital
“ We’re at an inflection point where AI can finally tackle the complexity of architectural decision-making. Our vision is to become the trusted AI infrastructure for every material decision in the built environment. ”
Vardhan Mehta, Co-founder & CEO at Acelab
“ Acelab is tackling one of the building industry’s biggest gaps: the lack of a standard operating system for making material decisions. ”
Dave Lemont, Executive Chairman at Acelab
Why This Matters
The $600 billion U.S. building materials market remains one of the most analog and fragmented sectors in construction. Acelab’s Material Hub offers a long-overdue digital transformation by uniting AI intelligence, collaboration, and centralized knowledge into one workflow. By addressing inefficiencies that cost the industry over $30 billion annually, Acelab is redefining how architects, owners, and contractors make material decisions — enhancing productivity, sustainability, and design quality across the built environment.
