Skema announced it has closed a strategic seed funding round to accelerate development of its platform designed for architecture, engineering, and construction professionals. The company said the capital will be used to expand its platform capabilities, deepen integrations with AEC workflows, and extend its tools across the full spectrum of design and construction phases. The round was led by Robin Bienfait, a board member of Skema and CEO of Atlanta Tech Park and Emnovate. The investor base includes strategic industry partners, venture investors, and family offices.
Strategic investors participating in the round include Bear Label Consulting Engineers, Dar Ventures, Eastern Companies, Frischhertz Electric, Marnell Group, Newcomb & Boyd, SHoP Architects, STO Building Group, Syska Hennessy, Thornton Tomasetti, TLC Engineering, and Winter Construction. Venture and angel investors include AEC Angels and Dar Ventures. Threadneedle Family Office also participated as a key investor.
Skema said the new funding represents an inflection point as the company evolves from a generative design solution into a core infrastructure platform supporting interoperable project delivery across the built environment.
The company previously strengthened its technology capabilities through the 2023 acquisition of intellectual property and a development team from Kreo Limited, which added AI and machine learning technology to its AEC platform.
As customer adoption expanded, Skema said firms increasingly demanded deeper integrations across production environments, including bi directional synchronization with Revit and API access within computational design tools such as Grasshopper.
These integrations introduced version control across connected systems and enabled model federation across multiple authoring environments. The company developed an analytic spatial model designed to align models and versions within a unified project context.
Skema’s platform architecture is built around APIs intended to preserve design intent across systems, reduce translation loss, and support continuous coordination from early design concept through building information modeling deliverables.
The company said the new capital will support continued expansion of platform capabilities, ecosystem integrations, and demand for data rich project infrastructure across the AEC industry.
KEY QUOTES
“This investment reflects not just capital but a shared belief in Skema’s potential to transform how design data is created and reused across the built environment. The depth of participation from firms that live inside these workflows every day signals something real – and something worth backing.”
Robin Bienfait — Board Member Of Skema And CEO Of Atlanta Tech Park And Emnovate
“We’re grateful for the confidence from this extraordinary group of backers. Their investment validates our mission to make rich, interoperable design data accessible earlier in the project lifecycle through a data intelligence layer — helping teams deliver better outcomes faster. This funding empowers us to further accelerate our roadmap and deepen value for our customers.”
Charlie Cichetti — CEO Of Skema
“We’ve spent years working around the data problem Skema is solving. Every project carries the cost of rebuilding information that should have traveled forward from the last one. We invested because we believe the teams who get structured data right earlier in the design process will outperform the ones who don’t.”
Grant McCullagh — Managing Director Of AEC Angels
“Family offices invest differently than funds. We don’t have a harvest date — we have a thesis. Ours is that the firms building the infrastructure layer of the built environment will quietly become indispensable, and Skema is building exactly that. The AEC industry has tolerated data loss between project phases for so long that most practitioners have stopped seeing it as a problem. Skema sees it clearly. Threadneedle is glad to be in early and intends to stay in.”
Trey Taylor — Managing Director Of Threadneedle Family Office
