Shovels
The intelligence layer for the built world
Lafayette, United States · Founded 2022 · $6.7M raised
- Headquarters
- Lafayette, California
- Employees
- 1–10
- Founded
- 2022
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- shovels.ai
- Total Funding
- $6.7M
- Last Round
- $5.0M SeedJun 2025
- Rounds
- 2
About
Shovels is the intelligence layer for the built world, using AI to clean and unify building permit data from 2,000+ US jurisdictions into a single platform. With 185M+ permits and 3.3M+ contractor records, it serves building material suppliers, construction technology firms, energy and climate companies, and real estate teams via API, web app, and direct data warehouse integrations (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).
Summary
Shovels is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Lafayette, United States, founded in 2022. It has raised $6.7M in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $5.0M Seed round in Jun 2025. Investors include Base10 Partners, Virta Ventures and Cool Climate Collective.
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Jun 2025
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