Bengaluru Startup Contineu Raises $1.2 mn to Power the Construction Industry with AI

Bengaluru-based startup Contineu has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by SenseAI Ventures, with participation from Piper Serica Angel Fund.

The funds will be deployed to expand Contineu’s engineering and product teams, strengthen its AI infrastructure, and support rapid scaling of its enterprise deployments.

The investment will also accelerate Contineu’s mission to build the AI-powered vertical data infrastructure stack for the construction industry, automating quality monitoring, compliance checks, and site-level visibility at scale.

Contineu’s AI pipeline consistently exceeds state-of-the-art (SOTA) benchmarks on construction datasets, enabling high-accuracy defect and non-compliance detection, automated documentation, and execution insights—without human input.

According to the startup, it's platform is already seeing early enterprise adoption in India and abroad, with a growing sales pipeline and product-market fit signals emerging.

Founded in 2023 by Harshil Naik (CEO) and Kanao Ramesh (CTO), Contineu eliminates the need for manual data entry on job sites through a proprietary platform that combines helmet-mounted 360° cameras with 3D computer vision models.

The system automatically captures on-site visuals and converts them into structured insights, beginning with QA/QC detection and documentation.

“Construction is one of the largest yet least digitised industries, and also one of the ripest for AI transformation,” Rahul Agarwalla, Managing Partner at SenseAI Ventures, said.

“We’ve proven our strong foothold in solving quality control challenges and now have a clear trajectory into the broader construction data ecosystem,” Harshil Naik, Co-founder & CEO of Contineu, said.