Formwork Labs 2025
“It is not the beauty of the building you should look at: it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” – David Allen Coe
The Formwork Labs 2025 Program details will be finalized shortly. Virtual session dates may still change up until Program Kick Off.
November 7, 2024 | Applications Open
December 9, 2024 | Rolling Interviews Begin
January 5, 2025 | Applications Close
January 13, 2025 | Second Round Interviews Begin
Jan 24, 2025 | Notification of Winners and Announcement
Pre-Program Sessions | Open to all 2025 Formwork Labs applications
February 2025 8am PT | Building Construction Tech - Software Tech Stack 101 by Praveen Kumar
February 2025 at 1pm PT | Why an MVP is Extremely Important for Construction Tech by Aditya Thakur (Autodesk/Plangrid)
Official Formwork Labs 2024 Sessions [this is for your reference as the 2025 sessions are still being finalized)
Tentatively, sessions take place on Wednesdays at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. Timing may change to 9am PT / 12pm ET / 4pm GMT pending cohort locations.
February 21, 2024 | Program Kick Off
February 28, 2024 | Customer Discovery by Aditya Thakur (Autodesk/Plangrid)
March 6, 2024 | What it Takes to Build Construction Tech In-House: CTO perspective panel featuring Brian Gonzalez (Curri), Chiz Chikwendu (Cumulus Digital Systems), Jeremy Jackson (Alpine), and Renaud Casanova (Stellar) moderated by Austin Yount (Brick & Mortar Ventures)
March 13, 2024 | Crunching Numbers, Telling Stories: A Comprehensive Approach to ROI and Case Studies by Erin Khan (Erin Khan Consulting, formerly Suffolk)
March 20, 2024 | The Importance of Branding and Storytelling in the Early Days by Scott Suiter (Suiter&Company, formerly ENJOY)
March 27, 2024 | Managing Customers, Relationships, and Partnerships by Christian Claus (Rockaway, formerly Holobuilder/FARO)
April 2, 2024 | Customer Conversations Kick Off [In-Person, San Francisco, CA] — See Below for Additional Details
April 3-4, 2024 | BuiltWorlds Venture West [In-Person, San Francisco, CA]
April 10, 2024 | How to Close your First 100k in ARR by Martin Roth (Formerly Levelset)
April 17, 2024 | Sales Metric Reporting for an Early Stage Startup by Anton Marinovich (JoistAI, formerly Holobuilder/FARO)
April 24, 2024 | Helpful Tools for Product Testing by Sergey Grushko (Airtasks, Formwork Labs 2023 cohort)
May 1, 2024 | Pitching to Venture Capital vs Pitching to Construction panel featuring Derrick Morse (Rugged Robotics), Matthew Kleiman (Cumulus Digital Systems), and Phil Lorenzo (StructionSite/DroneDeploy) moderated by Katheryn Madonia (BCG)
May 8, 2024 | Pitch Practice Week
May 15, 2024 | Demo Day [In-Person, San Francisco, CA] — See Below for Additional Details
Throughout this 3 month accelerator program, Formwork Labs will connect the cohort with additional customer conversations mentors to provide feedback on product development and product strategy. We expect to make 50-80 introductions during the program [depending on experiences and interest of the customer conversations mentors and their relevancy].
April 2, 2024 | Customer Conversations Kick Off [Tentative Schedule Below]
8am | Breakfast and Networking
8:45am | Welcome and Kick Off by Darren Bechtel and Matt Gray
9am | Legal Best Practices by David Richardson (DLA Piper)
10am | Going to Market in the Construction Industry panel featuring Kevin Soohoo (Egnyte), Ross Wagner (Autodesk), and Benny Baltrotsky (SBD) moderated by Todd Elkins (FieldNav)
11am | Understanding How End Users Evaluate Technologies panel featuring Evan Reilly (formerly Skanska), Hammad Chaudhry (EllisDon), and Trevor Johnston (XL Construction) moderated by Erin Khan
12pm | Lunch and Networking
1pm | Customer Conversations Kick Off
1:30pm | Quick Startup Pitches
1:45 | Customer Conversations Rotation
4pm | Formwork Labs Happy Hour
May 14, 2024 | Pre-Demo Day [Tentative Schedule Below]
9am | Breakfast and Networking
10am | AMA with Exited Construction Tech Founders
11am | Founders from Outside of Construction
12pm | Fundraising from VCs versus CVCs
1pm | Lunch and Networking
2pm | Pitch Practice
6pm | Dinner
May 15, 2024 | Demo Day [Tentative Schedule Below]
12pm | Lunch and Networking
1pm | Demo Day Welcome (Darren Bechtel, Brick & Mortar Ventures and Matt Gray, BuiltWorlds) State of Construction Panel featuring Darren Bechtel and Sidharth Haksar, Autodesk)
2pm | Demo Day [Virtual and In-Person]
4pm | Formwork Labs Demo Day Mixer at Brick & Mortar Ventures Office
Hear from the cohort
“Formwork Labs has opened many doors for us in the construction industry that otherwise would have taken us a long time to do so. The rare opportunity to speak with many construction enterprises helped us rethink about the problem we are solving in our users’ perspectives.”
— Hao Li, Founder & CEO, SupHub
“Formwork labs was an incredible program for us. We started as a stealth company with no website and left the program with real revenue and multiple press articles. Everyone in construction knows Brick & Mortar, if you are in construction then this is the only program for you.”
— Alex Bell, Founder & CEO, Automatic Construction
“Formwork Labs helped us gain exposure with international Venture Capital funds and potential clients. Speaking with potential clients and talking with them about us being in the Formwork Labs acceleration program backed by Brick & Mortar and BuiltWords gave them confidence to believe in our team and product.”