Enlaye Raises $5 Million Seed to Build Predictive Risk Intelligence for the Built-World

Enlaye's Risk Management platform helps builders, owners, insurers, and developers build smarter, identifying risks and mitigating their impact before they become cost overruns, delays, or disputes. 

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Enlaye has been deployed across more than $17 billion in project value, working with the world's largest builders, including the VINCI Group.

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Enlaye, the AI-native Risk Lifecycle Management™ platform transforming how the construction and infrastructure industries manage risk on their projects, today announced an oversubscribed $5 million Seed funding round. The round is led by Glasswing Ventures and co-led by Link Ventures, with strategic participation from Imad Ventures and participation from AiSprouts, Hannah Grey VC and Apprentis Ventures.

 

The funding will accelerate product development, expand the company's AI/ML capabilities, and scale its commercial growth across North America and Europe.

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Breaking Down Construction's Silos with AI

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The global construction and infrastructure sector represents more than $16.45 trillion in annual value. Yet the critical knowledge that drives project outcomes remains fragmented across documents, drawings, contracts, schedules, field reports, correspondence, and disconnected systems.

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Today, builders, general contractors, subcontractors, owners, developers, insurers, and lenders still rely on fragmented legacy systems and manual processes that force projects to operate as disconnected silos at every stage of the lifecycle, with no way to learn from past experience or capitalize on cross-project insights. The result: inefficiencies, duplication, cost overruns, amplified risk exposure, project delays, and eroded margins.

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Enlaye breaks down these silos by turning scattered project information into predictive, explainable risk intelligence. The platform enables the Built-World to move from fragmented, project-by-project risk management to a holistic, collaborative, data-driven approach across the entire portfolio. Enlaye's Risk Lifecycle Management™ platform consolidates critical risk data across projects, organizations, and time, empowering teams to make better decisions, prevent costly claims and disputes, and ultimately build better.

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Since launching its product in fall 2025, Enlaye has been deployed across more than $17 billion in project value in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and works with some of the world's largest builders, including the VINCI Group.

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"We started Enlaye because we saw firsthand how much opportunity is being left on the table," said Philippe Rival, CEO and Cofounder of Enlaye. "The construction industry has decades of operational knowledge scattered across documents, contracts, procedures, schedules, field reports, and methods. Yet far too little of that knowledge carries from one project — or one team — to the next. Our mission is to break those silos and give the Industry the intelligence it needs to build beyond risk. After years of working on major projects, we understand how construction and infrastructure projects fail, and how much of that risk is avoidable with better intelligence at the right moment."

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A Market at an Inflection Point

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Labor shortages, workflow fragmentation, and rising project costs have made risk management a strategic priority across the industry. Yet today's tools are outdated. AI adoption in construction sits at just 5%, opening a wide runway for a modern, intelligent solution like Enlaye's. The company is an Autodesk AECO Technology Partner, with its platform natively integrated with Autodesk Forma and Microsoft SharePoint, among others.

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An estimated 96% of data generated in the construction industry is never used, and Autodesk has estimated that bad data alone cost the global construction industry $1.88 trillion in 2020. Meanwhile, 30% of preconstruction data is lost before project closeout, and the average project worker loses 14 hours per week to non-productive tasks. These are precisely the gaps Enlaye was built  to close.

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Enlaye's approach resonates because it addresses a problem that matters: enabling organizations to learn from their past experience, manage risk in real time, and collaborate more effectively, to Build Beyond Risk™.

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"At Enlaye, we believe the future of AI in construction isn't about replacing human judgment, it's about augmenting it," said Stamatios Liapis, CTO and Cofounder of Enlaye. "Construction and infrastructure projects are among the most complex operational environments in the world. Risk is shaped by context, relationships, documents, contracts, schedules, and years of hard-won experience. Enlaye was built to turn that fragmented project data into structured, explainable intelligence that helps teams identify and manage risks better and earlier, powered by Graph Neural Networks and multimodal AI."

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“Risk in construction doesn’t live in any single document or phase. It compounds from bid package to contract to change order to claim, costing the global industry trillions a year in overruns, disputes, and rework, said Kleida Martiro, Managing Director at Glasswing Ventures. “Enlaye is the first platform built to manage risk across the entire project lifecycle and across every actor on it, including owners, developers, and builders. The same intelligence now shapes how a bid is drafted, how a contract is negotiated, and how exposure is controlled during execution. That is the kind of foundational infrastructure modern construction has been missing, and why we backed Philippe, Stamatios, and the Enlaye team.”

 

A Trusted Partner to the World's Largest Builders

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Enlaye's platform is already in use by the VINCI Group, the world's largest construction company, across multiple projects and initiatives. Since 2025, Enlaye has been supported by Leonard, VINCI's innovation and foresight platform, through its SEED and CATALYST programs, a partnership that has helped Enlaye deploy its solution with operational teams across the group.

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“Risk management is obviously essential to the success of any project,” said Christian Tricoire, Director of VINCI Construction Major Projects USA. “Enlaye’s solution fits naturally within our operations, particularly during the bid phase, where it helps us analyze large volumes of contractual and technical data. It enables us to identify key issues more quickly, better assess our risk exposure, and support more informed decision-making.”

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He added: “What I particularly appreciate about Enlaye’s solution is its pragmatic approach to supporting our teams in the continuous improvement of their performance. We are currently in a deployment phase, with the ambition of extending these use cases into the execution phase.”

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Key Platform Capabilities:

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Enlaye's AI-native Risk Lifecycle Management™ platform is built for modern construction stakeholders. It enables teams to:

• See risk holistically: Consolidate critical risk data across projects, teams, and time.

• Learn from history: Leverage institutional knowledge to anticipate and mitigate risks before they materialize, while building a lasting risk memory across projects, teams, and time.

• Collaborate intelligently: Enable seamless risk communication and better decision-making across stakeholders.

• Automate proprietary methods: Turn existing procedures, processes, and operational knowledge into AI-powered workflows and automations.

• Connect field and office: Capture, structure, and operationalize real-time project intelligence from both the jobsite and back-office teams, with automatic AI analysis.

• Build with confidence: Make better decisions with predictive, explainable AI analytics grounded in traceable data, regardless of file volume or project complexity.

 

See Enlaye in action: https://www.enlaye.com/demo

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About Enlaye

 

Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with a subsidiary in France, Enlaye is the AI-native Risk Lifecycle Management™ platform for the Built-World. The product launched in fall 2025 and is now deployed across more than $17 billion in projects in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

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At Enlaye, we know from experience that to build is to manage risk. By applying artificial intelligence to risk management and turning fragmented project information into predictive, explainable risk intelligence, Enlaye empowers builders, owners, developers, insurers, and other stakeholders to move from reactive, project-by-project risk management to a holistic, intelligent, and collaborative approach. Every Enlaye response and automation is grounded in traceable project data and explainable AI reasoning.

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Enlaye has been named to BuiltWorlds' Top 40 AI in Construction Startups for 2026, CEMEX Ventures' Top 50 ConTech Startups 2026, and BuiltWorlds' Top 50 Preconstruction Solutions 2026. The company won the prestigious Construction Startup Competition in 2025 and, in May 2026, took home the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge - Harvard University's largest and most prestigious entrepreneurship competition.

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Learn more: https://www.enlaye.com | LinkedIn

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