Krane Raises $9M to Take the Chaos Out of Construction Supply Chains with an AI Operations Crew

Krane, the AI-native platform for construction supply chain management, today announced $9M in Seed funding co-led by Glasswing Ventures and Link Ventures with participation from Tunitas Ventures, RoseCliff, New-Normal Ventures, and angel investors. The funding will accelerate the development of Krane’s AI-native operations crew for general contractors (GCs), owners, and subcontractors, ensuring the right materials arrive at the right time, with purchase orders (POs) and invoicing fully integrated.

Construction is a $13 trillion global industry, yet one in five projects is delivered late or over budget, often at a cost of more than $1 million per day on large builds. Teams manage this work across an average of 11 different data environments, creating handoffs, rework, and delays. As data center construction accelerates, with U.S. spending reaching approximately $40 billion in mid-2025, fragile supply chains are becoming harder to manage.

Krane brings control to the chaos of construction workflows. This end-to-end procurement platform provides a single source of truth, unifying spreadsheets, drawings, and materials data into one system where submittals, lead times, deliveries, and purchase orders are created, managed in one place, and updated in real time. With predictive supply chain AI layered on top, Krane operates as a construction operations crew, with each AI team member owning a specific part of the materials workflow:

• Milo turns specs, drawings, and schedules into complete submittal and procurement logs in minutes.
  
• Arlo connects siloed schedules, submittals, and procurement logs into one system and provides a clear procurement strategy for the pre-construction teams.
  
• Chase follows up with trade partners to prioritize submittals, validate lead times, and material statuses.
  
• Lana creates submittal templates and QCs so that GCs and trade partners can improve the quality of submittal packages and submit them on time.
  
• Rio automates delivery scheduling, prevents any conflicts, and analyzes equipment usage.
  
• Theo controls the procurement process from quote comparison, RFP creation to delivery.
  

By removing friction across materials workflows, Krane delivers measurable improvements, including:

• 10× faster response times from subcontractors and suppliers
• 1–2.5% reduction in material overspend per project
• Up to 7 days saved per scope during pre-construction
• 15–20 hours saved per week for project engineers and project managers

Krane is now expanding its platform beyond procurement and delivery coordination to owners and subcontractors with the addition of Theo, a new crew member who helps teams control the procurement process from quote comparison, RFP creation to delivery. This marks a new era for Krane’s platform, opening direct support for the teams responsible for the procurement of material and equipment. The funding will accelerate product roadmap execution and fuel enterprise deployment expansion. Together, these capabilities allow Krane to support every step of the supply chain, helping construction teams deliver complex projects like data centers faster, while accelerating the infrastructure that powers everything from electric utilities to renewable energy.

“Construction supply chain processes were never designed to support the scale and pace of today’s growing industry, and the rapid expansion of data center construction is exposing those limits,” said Eshan Jayamanne, founder and CEO of Krane. “Having spent more than a decade leading large-scale builds, including complex energy and data center projects, I’ve seen how procurement delays and material risk quietly derail schedules and budgets. We built Krane to shift that burden off field teams, using an AI-driven construction operations team to handle the heavy lifting behind the scenes so teams can return to the jobsite faster and keep projects moving.”

Krane integrates with leading construction systems, including Autodesk, Procore, Microsoft Project, CMiC, Microsoft SharePoint, Trimble Viewpoint, and Oracle Primavera P6, so teams can work from connected data without changing the tools they already rely on. The platform spans every step of the supply chain without locking customers into rigid contracts, giving teams a seamless experience and the flexibility to scale capabilities as needs evolve. Through close collaboration with partners such as Boldt, HITT Contracting Inc., and Juneau Construction Company, Krane has continually pushed the boundaries of construction supply chain management.

“On complex projects, delays aren’t caused by one big failure, but rather hundreds of small gaps across submittals, procurement, and deliveries. With the current demand for data center builds, there’s very little margin for error in the supply chain,” said Jackson Craig, Senior Project Manager at HITT Contracting Inc. “Krane helps take the pressure off our teams by automating the constant follow-up and coordination that normally slows projects down. With all the information we need to know in one place, we’re able to stay ahead of issues, move faster in pre-construction, and deliver the speed and certainty our data center clients demand.”

Krane’s leadership team brings deep construction, operations, and AI expertise. Founder and CEO Eshan Jayamanne is a licensed professional engineer with experience across design engineering, self-perform construction, and production analytics on complex energy, infrastructure, and data center projects globally. From day one, Krane has been advised by a group of leaders with decades of experience in the industry, including Amar Hanspal, former CEO of Autodesk and CEO of Motif; Klas Berghede, VP Production and Innovation at The Boldt Company; and Mohsin Hussain, CTO and EVP of LiveRamp.

“Construction drives trillions of dollars in global economic output, yet critical decisions are still managed through fragmented systems that leave projects exposed to delays, cost overruns, and avoidable risk,” said Kleida Martiro, Managing Director at Glasswing Ventures. “With margins under pressure and supply chains increasingly complex, operators need real-time intelligence to protect profitability and keep projects on track. Krane is building an AI-native platform that delivers predictive control over cost, materials, and risk across the construction supply chain. Led by a team that has executed complex, capital-intensive projects at scale, Krane is positioned to become the intelligence backbone for modern construction.”

To learn more, visit: https://www.krane.tech/en

About Krane

Krane is an AI-native platform built to de-risk the construction supply chain, ensuring submittals, lead times, deliveries, and POs are created, managed in one place, and updated in real time. The platform performs like a construction operations team, automating time-consuming material planning, procurement, and coordination workflows across a project’s lifecycle. Built by a team with more than 30 years of combined construction and operations experience, Krane helps contractors and developers reduce friction across suppliers, submittals, and material decisions, saving teams up to seven days per scope during pre-construction before delays cascade into costly downstream impacts.

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