Skema.ai Raises Seed Funding to Connect AEC Design Data With Bi-Directional Revit Workflows
There is a quiet tax in construction. Not in the budget. Not in the contract. In the handoff. In the translation. In the moment a model leaves one tool and enters another and loses a little bit of its soul. Skema.ai just raised a strategic seed round to go after that tax like it owes them money.
Congratulations to Charlie Cichetti, CEO and Co Founder, Marty Rozmanith, CTO and Co Founder, Richard Harpham, CRO and Co Founder, and Kristina Bach, President and Co Founder, for closing a round backed by people who actually build the world. Robin Bienfait, board member and CEO of Atlanta Tech Park and Emnovate, led the round. AEC Angels and Dar Ventures stepped in. Threadneedle Family Office joined. Strategic capital came from Bear Label Consulting Engineers, Eastern Companies, Frischhertz Electric, Marnell Group, Newcomb and Boyd, SHoP Architects, STO Building Group, Syska Hennessy, Thornton Tomasetti, TLC Engineering, and Winter Construction.
Skema.ai is building a generative data intelligence and infrastructure layer for AEC. Not another shiny design toy. An analytic spatial model that acts as a system of record. Open APIs. Bi directional synchronization with Revit. Grasshopper access. Version control. Model federation. Continuous, structured building intelligence from early concept through BIM deliverables.
In 2023, Skema.ai acquired intellectual property and a dedicated development team from Kreo Limited. That move was less feature grab and more foundation pour. They saw the gap between generative design and production reality, then decided to own the space in between. Where design intent usually goes to die in a PDF.
Charlie Cichetti brings the sustainability edge. LEED Fellow. WELL AP. Decades in green building and real estate. Marty Rozmanith helped shape Revit before most firms knew what BIM meant. Richard Harpham lived through the rise of Revit and Autodesk and carried that battle rhythm into revenue strategy. Kristina Bach is a licensed architect with deep sustainability credentials who understands that coordination is not a slogan, it is survival.
The takeaway is simple and sharp. If you want smart money, solve an expensive problem for the people writing the biggest checks. Skema.ai did not chase vanity metrics. They embedded themselves in the workflows of architects, engineers, contractors, and owners who are tired of rebuilding the same data 5 times.
If you are in AEC and still treating your data like disposable scaffolding, pay attention. The firms backing Skema.ai are not betting on hype. They are betting on continuity. On fewer rebuilds. On models that mean what they say.