Italy-Based Pillar Raises €12M Funding To Build An AI-powered Operating System For Construction

The round brings the company’s total funding to €15.2 million, just under eight months after its public launch. Existing backers, including Emblem, also took part in earlier financing rounds.

Founded in 2025, Pillar is developing a software platform aimed at modernising construction operations and financial management.

The company offers an AI-powered operating system for contractors that automates back-office and administrative workflows such as quote generation, margin tracking, workforce coordination, and project reporting.

The construction sector remains one of the world’s largest yet least digitised industries with many firms still dependent on fragmented tools, manual processes, and disconnected data systems.

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Pillar’s platform consolidates inputs from accounting tools, bank feeds and on-site updates including communications shared via WhatsApp into a unified interface that delivers real-time operational visibility without requiring contractors to overhaul their existing workflows.

The new funding will be used to strengthen Pillar’s presence in Italy, support international expansion and accelerate product development. The company also plans to expand its platform with additional modules covering procurement, tender management, subcontractor coordination, banking and other construction-related services.

In the long term, Pillar aims to become a central operating system for the construction industry, enabling end-to-end management of projects, payments, and workforce operations across the sector.

Gabriel Guinea Montalvo, CEO and co-founder of Pillar, said the construction sector remains one of the few major industries that has yet to undergo a fundamental technological transformation.

Every project runs on fragmented data, manual processes, and zero visibility - from the contractor's back office to the workers on site. We are building the default operating system this industry depends on, in Italy, in Europe, and everywhere construction still operates in chaos.