Adam Zobler

Investing at the intersection of AI and the physical world

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
25
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Sep 2025
Two next gen AI tools and more coming soon - AI building code research and analysis agent that helps architects design compliant buildings fast and AI-enabled quantity takeoff service that help contractors get accurate takeoffs, fast. Preconstruction is the digital birth of every building, yet today it’s fragmented, slow, and full of conflicting interpretations and assumptions. MeltPlan brings order to the chaos with Construction-Aware AI built specifically for the built environment. We’re building the Planning Engine that sits between design and construction...a shared source of truth for Owners, Architects, GCs, and Trades so every project starts aligned and everyone builds from the same plan, literally.
Angel Investor
Apr 2025
The intelligent canvas for architects, built to save thousands of hours. Illoca is building the new AI interface for architectural design: Tracing Paper enables architects to work directly through sketches, markups, and natural language, while AI agents understand intent and generate editable 2D and 3D designs in real time. By reducing time spent on manual modeling, Tracing Paper helps architects and stakeholders move fluidly between exploration and refinement, with more space to test ideas, respond to feedback, navigate tradeoffs, and focus on the decisions that bring projects to life. Try Tracing Paper for free: https://illoca.com
Seed Investor
Mar 2025
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
Investor
Jun 2023
Conversant is redefining product research for ecommerce. Our AI platform powers interactive multimodal product research experiences that seamlessly transform the process of finding the right product into a delightful and efficient journey.
Investor
May 2023
Auba’s premise is that supply chain professionals should have tools that help them automatically detect and proactively avoid delays and disruptions before they have a financial impact.
Investor
Jan 2023
Tangible uses AI to power smarter design and material decisions.
Investor
Sep 2022
We are on a mission to unlock resilient housing as a basic human right. To achieve that mission, were developing low-cost robotic microfactories to build and retrofit net-zero homes 2x faster, 2x cheaper and with 10x lower carbon.
Investor
Apr 2022
PermitFlow is the nations leading permit application and management platform. We help builders across the country to simplify and speed up the process of obtaining construction permits.
Investor
Apr 2022
Cottage was founded with the belief that there had to be a better way for homeowners and contractors to work together. We are building a SaaS-enabled marketplace that allows homeowners to design online, get upfront pricing and access vetted contractors who run their business on our platform. We're starting with Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), which provide much needed housing, a smart investment for homeowners and consistent work for contractors.
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Apr 2022
We’re rebuilding the financial stack for the built world so builders can spend less time in spreadsheets and more time building hospitals, schools, and neighborhoods. Walk any Main Street in America and you’ll see our customers’ work: the corner cafe, a new apartment building, the community theater revamp. Behind every project is a small business owner wrestling with disconnected systems, leading to zero visibility into what profit is, nor what drives it. Were building the first AI-native platform to fix this. Since launching in 2023, weve grown rapidly to 500+ customers, and have built partnerships with 6 of the top 100 CPA firms. Weve also raised $26m from Emergence, a16z, and the operators behind Brex, Ramp, Square, and Shopify. We value diligence, creativity, urgency, and teamwork. If that sounds like you, and you are excited by the opportunity to reshape this massive, consequential industry, wed love to meet you. Check out our open roles at: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Adaptive
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2022
The Future of A&D 3D Virtual Sampling and Visual Curation. Design material boards online with no physical library. Drag & drop 100s of materials, experiment online & stay on-trend with a catalog of domestic and international products and new materials! Mattoboard is connecting interior designers and material trade suppliers with an online virtual studio table.
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Oct 2021
CarbonBuilts Carbon XPrize-winning technology enables the production of ultra low-carbon concrete products, driving gigatonne-scale greenhouse gas reductions through the cost-effective mineralization of carbon dioxide. Our revolutionary approach reduces overall carbon dioxide emissions by 70-100%+, with no compromise on price, performance, or plant operations.
Investor
Jul 2021
The ally app for the hardware and construction sector in Latam. 🤳 The products your business needs. Download it now!
Investor
Jul 2021
Forge is on a mission to build and power the next-generation trades worker. With a unique combination of a real-world trades school and next-generation technology, Forge is giving people who love to work with their hands the chance to build a great career while tackling the tradesperson shortage head-on.
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Oct 2020
1build is the only construction estimating software powered by real-time material, equipment, and labor costs in your county. As we're collecting thousands of data points about construction projects in the US, our ultimate goal is to standardize construction data and to codify building assembly and design as an explicit algorithmic language. Over the last 9 months, we've grown 13x in revenue and facilitated $1B+ in construction spend. Join a team with backgrounds at Tesla, Uber, Bechtel, and CloudKitchens. We've raised a total of $20M in funding from investors like Y-Combinator, Initialized Capital, co-founders of PlanGrid and Greycroft since launching 18 months ago.
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2026
Limited Partner
Mar 2026
Kodiak is a dedicated investment partner and growth platform for owner-led businesses in the lower middle market. We partner with the next generation of owner-operators - providing patient capital, strategic resources, and operational support to help scale enduring, high-quality companies. Our focus is on durable business models and exceptional operators, where we can deploy both investment discipline and hands-on partnership to compound value over time. We believe in thoughtfully backing small businesses with the potential to become significant, sustainable enterprises.
2025
Investor
Sep 2025
Two next gen AI tools and more coming soon - AI building code research and analysis agent that helps architects design compliant buildings fast and AI-enabled quantity takeoff service that help contractors get accurate takeoffs, fast. Preconstruction is the digital birth of every building, yet today it’s fragmented, slow, and full of conflicting interpretations and assumptions. MeltPlan brings order to the chaos with Construction-Aware AI built specifically for the built environment. We’re building the Planning Engine that sits between design and construction...a shared source of truth for Owners, Architects, GCs, and Trades so every project starts aligned and everyone builds from the same plan, literally.
Angel Investor
Apr 2025
The intelligent canvas for architects, built to save thousands of hours. Illoca is building the new AI interface for architectural design: Tracing Paper enables architects to work directly through sketches, markups, and natural language, while AI agents understand intent and generate editable 2D and 3D designs in real time. By reducing time spent on manual modeling, Tracing Paper helps architects and stakeholders move fluidly between exploration and refinement, with more space to test ideas, respond to feedback, navigate tradeoffs, and focus on the decisions that bring projects to life. Try Tracing Paper for free: https://illoca.com
Seed Investor
Mar 2025
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
2023
Investor
Jun 2023
Conversant is redefining product research for ecommerce. Our AI platform powers interactive multimodal product research experiences that seamlessly transform the process of finding the right product into a delightful and efficient journey.
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