Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, money it will spend putting more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States.
Plural and Hummingbird, both backers of the company’s $25m round in early 2024, took part again. The Amsterdam company says the funding will grow its engineering team, expand the fleet across Europe, deepen its UK operation, teach the robots more than one trade, and pay for the American launch this year.
The fleet now runs to more than 150 robots, according to Monumental, working on live sites rather than in demonstration yards.
The machines are fully electric, use sensors, computer vision and a small crane arm to place brick and mortar, and are coordinated by the company’s software platform, Atrium.
What they have built so far is prosaic, which is rather the point: the walls of more than 100 homes in the Netherlands and the UK, plus a school, a community centre, a hotel, and a stretch of Amsterdam canal wall.
