Monumental Lands $32 Mn to Grow AI Bricklaying Robots Across Europe and Beyond

The funding round was led by Khosla Ventures, with support from existing investors Plural and Hummingbird. The company develops autonomous robots and software to help improve construction work.

"Every robot we deploy expands the industry’s capacity to build. Khosla’s investment lets us put many more of them to work, in more countries, and beyond bricklaying." said Salar al Khafaji, co-founder and CEO

"Construction costs have exploded while the industry itself has barely changed in decades. That combination has produced the housing crisis: we know how to build, we've just made it too expensive and too slow. Monumental is solving this by bringing robotics into the physical world, and the proof is already standing: canal walls, houses, a school, nearly 100 structures already built by robots. Beautiful buildings, built at scale, don't have to cost what they cost today." said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures

Founded in 2021 by Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser, Monumental is helping solve the labour shortage in the construction industry by using AI-powered autonomous bricklaying robots through its Atrium platform.

The company's electric robots use advanced sensors, computer vision, and cranes to lay bricks and mortar with high accuracy. These robots work independently on construction sites as autonomous subcontractors.

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The new funding will help Monumental grow its business by hiring more hardware and software engineers and expanding its robot fleet across Europe and the UK. It will also strengthen the company's operations in the UK.

The company will also use the funding to increase the number of construction tasks its robots can perform and support its planned expansion into the United States.