CivilGrid, the civil design platform that consolidates all site data into a collaborative map with design workflows to enable builders to deliver safe and affordable projects, announced a $26 million Series A. The platform gives infrastructure teams what they’ve never had before: a comprehensive view of underground assets and conditions. The round is led by Spark Capital with participation from Energy Impact Partners, Afore Capital, A*, Ford Street Ventures, and SNR Ventures. As the U.S. embarks on historic infrastructure investment, CivilGrid helps major utilities and engineering firms including Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Atmos Energy, Mark Thomas, and GHD to de-risk billions in annual project spend. The funding will accelerate CivilGrid’s national expansion and deepen its product capabilities, redefining how infrastructure gets delivered.

“America is entering a once-in-a-generation period of infrastructure renewal with experts calling for over $3.7 trillion in investment,”[1] said Josh Mackanic, CivilGrid CEO & Co-Founder. “Teams are building with incomplete site data and disconnected workflows that slow projects, increase costs, and create avoidable risks. CivilGrid gives cross-functional teams at PG&E and other leading utilities the confidence they need to plan effectively, reduce risk, and deliver projects affordably. That is how we build stronger communities and maximize the impact of infrastructure investment.”

Legacy data and antiquated systems cause 200,000 utility strikes annually in the U.S.[2] Damages range from cutting water service for entire communities to rupturing natural gas lines that endanger lives. These avoidable mistakes cost the industry $30 billion annually in delays, rework, and emergency response.[3] When trillions in public funding and private capital[4] are on the line, preventable uncertainty becomes an unacceptable cost. Builders need a new way to ensure that these investments—big and small—translate into safer projects, lower costs, and reliable infrastructure.

Before CivilGrid, there was no consolidated view of project design constraints, in particular the subsurface world. Site data like utility assets, municipal projects, environmental regulations, and land ownership only existed in disconnected systems. Builders were still relying on phone calls, PDFs, and a maze of bureaucracy to understand stakeholders and critical data needed to break ground.

CivilGrid is the solution, improving project prioritization, shortening due diligence, eliminating field surprises, and keeping critical work cost-efficient. Now, all stakeholders—asset owners, engineers, construction teams, municipalities, and regulatory bodies—can see all relevant data and, for the first time, understand how they each impact a specific site location. CivilGrid is the only platform that consolidates thousands of fragmented datasets sourced directly from agencies into one on-demand collaborative map.

“California’s energy needs are growing rapidly, and our customers expect us to deliver the infrastructure they need safely, reliably, and affordably,” said Christine Cowsert, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Business and Technology Modernization at PG&E. “That means planning smarter from the start with tools like CivilGrid, which help our teams identify risks earlier, build more efficiently, and avoid unnecessary costs while keeping safety front and center.”

Since deploying CivilGrid, PG&E has realized savings, accelerated schedules, and avoided potential cost overruns:

  • $60M+ in paving conflicts eliminated through strategic portfolio optimization
  • 40% reduction in field research and survey activities
  • Up to 4 months faster project scoping, planning, and design timelines

With the largest infrastructure buildout in decades underway, utilities hardening grids, cities expanding electrical capacity, telecoms closing the broadband gap, and agencies modernizing water and transit systems, project teams need modern technology to prioritize, coordinate, and plan effectively. CivilGrid’s collaborative workspace improves infrastructure delivery by:

  • Increasing project affordability: Reduces costly field surprises, emergency utility relocations, and redesign cycles which can free up 5-10% of project budgets.
  • Improving community safety: Sharpens design accuracy and field crew awareness to reduce the likelihood of utility strikes and other field incidents.
  • Accelerating project planning: Replaces weeks of manual work to cut due diligence time by up to 85% and enables teams to move from scoping to design faster.
  • Strengthening cross-agency collaboration: Gives all stakeholders a shared environment to identify conflicts early, prevent duplicative rework, and prioritize capital deployment with greater confidence.

“CivilGrid isn’t just improving preconstruction workflows, it is establishing a new standard for how America builds,” said Alex Finkelstein, Partner at Spark Capital. “Every major capital investment trend right now—AI data centers, defense infrastructure, grid modernization, affordable housing—requires flawless execution in the physical world. Few people understand the technical and operational requirements of this work better than CivilGrid’s team, whose leadership brings over 70 years of combined industry experience. They’re defining the next generation of construction software in a $2.2 trillion industry[5], and we’re excited to back a company setting industry standards, not just building better tools.”

About CivilGrid

CivilGrid is modernizing how America builds infrastructure. The company’s civil design platform eliminates the fragmented, manual data processes that cause costly delays and utility strikes across the $2.2 trillion U.S. construction market. Trusted by major utilities and engineering firms—including PG&E, Atmos Energy, Mark Thomas, and GHD—CivilGrid delivers comprehensive site data alongside geospatial collaboration tools that help teams accelerate project delivery, reduce risk, and improve portfolio-wide performance. As infrastructure investment surges, CivilGrid is the essential data layer for how the industry plans and builds. To learn more, visit www.civilgrid.com

  1. https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/society-news/article/2025/03/25/asce-report-card-gives-us-infrastructure-highest-ever-c-grade
  2. https://commongroundalliance.com/Publications-Media/DIRT-Report
  3. https://commongroundalliance.com/Publications-Media/Press-Releases/excavation-related-damages-to-utilities-cost-the-us-approximately-30-billion-in-2019-3
  4. https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/legislative-mandates/bipartisan-infrastructure-law-bil-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act-iija
  5. https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/pdf/release.pdf

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