MeltPlan Raises $10M Seed to Build a Construction-Native AI Planning Engine
Somewhere between a blueprint and a budget, most construction projects quietly go sideways. Not because people are lazy. Not because the math is hard. But because early decisions get locked in before anyone has run the full simulation of reality. That gray zone, preconstruction, is where billions are either protected or politely set on fire.
MeltPlan just raised $10M in seed funding to attack that moment. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Noa, bringing total funding to $14M. Berkeley based. Founded in 2025. Tight. Focused. No fluff. Just a planning engine built for an industry that has been making trillion dollar bets with spreadsheets and crossed fingers.
Congratulations to Kanav Hasija, Co founder and CEO, and Tanmaya Kala, Co founder and COO. Kanav Hasija helped build Innovaccer into a healthtech heavyweight. Tanmaya Kala spent nearly 2 decades inside construction at DPR Construction, rising from Project Engineer to Project Executive. One built data systems for healthcare. The other lived the chaos of job sites and precon meetings. Together they decided preconstruction deserved better than guesswork dressed up as confidence.
MeltPlan is a construction native AI planning platform. Not a generic model rebranded with a new logo. The system is trained on real construction data: specifications, codebooks, drawings, 2D and 3D models. It reads geometry. It reasons through building code. It connects 4 decision systems across code, cost, schedule, and value. That is not marketing poetry. That is operational leverage.
The platform reportedly scores 95% or higher on building inspector exams. Let that breathe for a second. Inspector level code knowledge, embedded upstream before scope freeze. Imagine what that does to change orders, to rework, to those late night “how did we miss that” calls.
Enterprise contractors are already in the mix, including DPR Construction in the United States and Innovo Group in the United Arab Emirates. That matters. Construction is a trust business. You do not get invited into preconstruction unless you are solving real pain.
This capital is about scaling the planning engine across trades and disciplines, deepening the code, cost, schedule, and value systems so owners, architects, engineers, and contractors can run scenarios before concrete gets poured and capital gets committed. In a $14T global industry, small percentage improvements are not small. They are seismic.
