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Higharc

Category: AI in Construction

AI-powered home design and construction platform that helps builders design, sell, permit, and build homes through a connected cloud platform. Higharc was founded in 2018. The company is led by Marc Minor. Based in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Team size: 101-500. Total funding raised: $173.8M. Latest round: Series C. Key investors include Insight Partners, Spark Capital, Pillar VC, Wellington Management, Fifth Wall, Lux Capital, SE Ventures (Schneider Electric), Home Depot Ventures, Ferguson, Starwood Capital, Simpson Strong-Tie, PSP Partners.

Founded
2018
Headquarters
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Team size
101-500
Total funding
$173.8M

Value proposition

Higharc's homebuilding AI platform generates homes as spatial databases — capturing code requirements, construction standards and geometry — and creates the structured data foundation required for production-grade AI, enabling builders to design homes from scratch, configure market-proven plans, and turn every home into shoppable 3D visuals, plan-based estimating data, and permit-ready construction documents.

Products and solutions

Higharc Enterprise (design-to-construction platform), Studio (generative design), Config (plan configuration), Showroom (3D sales experience), Estimate (AI estimating), Build (construction documentation), Photoreal (3D visualization), Ready to Build (turnkey system), AutoTranslate AI (floorplan-to-3D spatial model), AI Estimating for Distributors (material takeoffs at enterprise scale)

Unique value

Only end-to-end AI-native platform purpose-built for residential construction that uses spatial AI (not LLMs) trained on thousands of residential architectural drawings, with a multimodel validation architecture to prevent hallucinations. AutoTranslate AI converts 2D floorplans into 3D spatial data models with material takeoffs.

Target customer

Homebuilders (production builders, custom builders), building materials distributors (LBM dealers), and construction firms in the US residential construction market

Industries served

Residential homebuilding, Building materials distribution, Construction technology

Technology advantage

Spatial AI trained exclusively on residential architectural drawings (not general-purpose LLMs); multimodel validation architecture to prevent hallucinations; generates homes as spatial databases with code requirements, construction standards, and geometry; AutoTranslate AI converts 2D floorplans to 3D spatial data models; cloud-native connected platform replacing siloed legacy software

How they differentiate

Unlike general-purpose AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude) that lack spatial understanding, Higharc's spatial AI is purpose-built for residential construction. Unlike legacy BIM tools (Revit/Autodesk), Higharc is a cloud-native, AI-first platform that automates the entire design-to-construction lifecycle. The company's multimodel validation architecture ensures production-grade reliability that frontier models cannot achieve for construction.

Main competitors

Autodesk (Revit/BIM 360), PlanGrid (Autodesk), Built Technologies, traditional homebuilding ERP/software providers

Key partnerships

US LBM (largest privately owned building materials distributor in US) — partnership for AI-powered material takeoffs, ECI Software Solutions (MarkSystems ERP integration), Homes for HOPE (nonprofit partnership), GAF, Ferguson, Schneider Electric

Notable customers

Signature Homes, Epcon Communities, Buffington Homes, Ashlar Homes, Legacy Design Homes, New Home Inc., Jagoe Homes

Major milestones

2018: Company founded, 2021: $21M Series A led by Spark Capital, 2024: $53M Series B with participation from Home Depot, Ferguson, Schneider Electric, 2025: Ranked #28 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500, 2026: Named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, 2026: $95M Series C led by Insight Partners, total funding >$170M, 2026: Launched AutoTranslate AI and partnership with US LBM for materials supply chain

Growth metrics

Customers build over 40,000 homes annually representing $19B in new home sales volume; 15% increase in margin for builders; 50% decrease in time to open new communities; 80% faster product development; 75% faster soft cycle time

Market positioning

Leader in AI-powered homebuilding technology for the $350B US homebuilding industry; named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2026; ranked #28 on Deloitte's 2025 Technology Fast 500; customers build over 40,000 homes annually representing $19B in new home sales volume

Geographic focus

United States (primarily), with expansion into Canada

About Marc Minor

Ex-VP Marketing at Desktop Metal; Head of Marketing at Carbon3D; Managing Producer at Apple; B.A. in Producing for Television and Music from New York University; Master's in Design and Technology from Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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