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Shovels, Inc. is a venture-backed company that provides an AI-powered platform for building permits and contractor data. Their business model includes SaaS and data platform services, offering…

Shovels, Inc. is a venture-backed company that provides an AI-powered platform for building permits and contractor data. Their business model includes SaaS and data platform services, offering…
What they do: AI-powered platform that aggregates, cleans, and serves building permit, contractor, and property data via web app, API, and data-warehouse integrations
Scale: Database of ~185M building permits, ~3.3M contractors, coverage for ~33M US addresses; adds millions of permits monthly
Customers: Customers across construction tech, energy & climate, building materials, real estate, and home services
Funding: Seed round $5M (June 10, 2025); total funding reported ~$6.1M–$6.5M
Founded 2022; headquartered in Lafayette, California
Fragmented municipal building permit and contractor data that is difficult to access, clean, and integrate for analytics and go-to-market use cases.
2022
Construction technology / PropTech / Data platform
$5,000,000
Company announced a $5M seed round bringing total funding to approximately $6.5M
“Seed led by Base10 Partners; early angel lead Zach Coelius (Coelius Capital) referenced as an early investor”
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