Monumental raises $32 million to bring its bricklaying robots to US sites

Khosla Ventures is backing Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser's subcontractor model after more than 100 European structures.

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Monumental is testing a practical route into construction automation: own the robots, sell completed work and make contractors pay only for the wall. Its US expansion will reveal whether that model scales economically across unfamiliar sites.

Monumental's bricklaying robot meticulously placing bricks on a growing wall at a construction site.

Salar al Khafaji (@salar) and Sebastiaan Visser have raised a $32 million Series B for Monumental, giving the Silk co-founders and former Palantir colleagues fresh capital to bring their autonomous bricklaying operation from European construction sites into the United States.…

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