Home renovation projects can be unpredictable for both customers and builders. Meanwhile, small contractors barely use modern software and home renovation giants, like IKEA, tend to trundle on with dated legacy software. U.K. startup Beams thinks it can solve this conundrum and has now raised a $9 million Series A funding round to crack the issues. That takes its total raised to $13.3 million to date.
This latest round was led by ETF Partners, with participation from existing investors Giant Ventures, firstminute capital and Borusan Ventures.
Beams has a pricing engine which predicts how much a project will cost and how long it will take, compares it with over 6,000 previous building projects, and then uses 3D photographic and laser scans to build a detailed model of the home to design the renovation.
Founder and CEO Hayden Wood was at renewable energy startup Bulb (later acquired by Octopus Energy from administration) when he first came across the problem Beams is trying to solve: “I saw how much friction existed around making homes more energy-efficient,” he…
