sector · cluster
Shelter & construction
Industrialize what we put roofs over our heads with.
Construction productivity has been flat for fifty years while every other manufactured good has gotten an order of magnitude cheaper. Zoning, permitting, and the fragmented supply chain are the bottlenecks. Factory-built housing, modular construction, and reform of land-use law would re-couple shelter cost to physics.
Problems in this sector
1 rankedCompanies on it
5 mapped →3D-printed residential construction at the scale of whole neighborhoods. Working with NASA on lunar habitats.
3D-printing prefab homes from a composite stone material. Targeting multi-family housing at reduced cost.
Fully automated precision-parts factories for aerospace, defense, and infrastructure. Removing labor cost from the BOM.
Autonomous construction equipment, retrofits turn excavators and bulldozers into self-operating machines.
FieldPrinter robot, prints BIM layouts directly onto construction floors, eliminating manual layout errors.
Capital on it
5 allocators →Thiel Fellowship
Fellowship$100k to stop out of school and build something important.
Activate Fellowship
AcceleratorTwo-year salary and national-lab access for scientists taking PhD research to market.
a16z American Dynamism
Venture CapitalNational-interest technology, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, public safety.
Fifty Years
Venture CapitalEvery portfolio company must solve a UN SDG. Profit with purpose, no exceptions.
Rise Fund (TPG)
Venture CapitalGrowth-stage impact investing with rigorous Impact Multiple of Money scoring.