Belgian Contech Spotable Raises €4M as It Pushes Into the U.S.
The Ghent-based AI construction startup is moving from European traction to a more serious push into the American roofing and building-envelope market.
Belgian construction-tech startup Spotable has raised €4 million in new funding as it prepares to accelerate its international expansion, with the United States emerging as a central part of its next growth phase.
Co-founder Julie Dumoulin announced the round on September 29, saying the company has moved rapidly from an idea that many considered too niche to a platform now used by hundreds of construction SMEs.
“A year and a half ago, people laughed when we said we were building AI software for roofers. Now the US.”
The funding gives Spotable additional firepower to test whether a model that has gained traction with European roofing and façade companies can scale into the much larger American construction market.
Turning a building address into a sales tool
Founded in Ghent, Spotable develops software that helps roofing and façade companies measure buildings and prepare quotations digitally.
A contractor can enter a building address and use Spotable to generate a 3D model of the property. Its technology combines imagery, spatial data and proprietary algorithms to calculate dimensions and translate those measurements into material requirements, project values and quotations.
The pitch is less about introducing AI for its own sake and more about removing one of the industry's repetitive bottlenecks: measuring projects and turning those measurements into quotes.
Spotable has also expanded beyond serving contractors directly, building relationships with manufacturers, suppliers and distributors that already sit inside construction companies' purchasing workflows.
America was already on the roadmap
The U.S. push did not begin with this funding round. Spotable started exploring the American market earlier in 2026.
During one prospecting trip, Dumoulin travelled to Washington and participated in discussions with U.S. lawmakers about technology and productivity in construction.
The company has since built a dedicated American commercial presence. Its website lists a U.S.-focused enterprise and partnership sales manager alongside its European sales operations.
Spotable's geographic strategy is also unusual for a European AI startup. Rather than treating Silicon Valley as the natural entry point, Dumoulin has pointed toward the Southeast.
States such as Florida and Texas offer large roofing and renovation markets, while Atlanta sits close to a significant ecosystem of building-material manufacturers and distributors. For Spotable, those industry connections matter more than proximity to traditional technology investors.
From contractors to the construction supply chain
Spotable's evolution illustrates an important pattern in vertical AI. The company initially built around a very specific customer: roofers.
That narrow starting point allowed it to develop software around a concrete workflow rather than trying to build a generic AI platform for construction. It has since extended that model toward façade contractors and deeper into the industry's supply chain.
Manufacturers and distributors could ultimately give Spotable access to thousands of contractors without having to acquire every individual roofing company directly.
Dumoulin thanked a group of entrepreneurs and investors backing the company, including Jonas Dhaenens, Christophe Morbee, Hilde Cloostermans-Huwaert, Philip Corens and Olivier Saverys. Spotable has not yet publicly detailed a lead investor or the precise structure of the new round.
A Belgian vertical-AI play heads west
Spotable's U.S. expansion comes as European startups increasingly look beyond broad horizontal software products and target established American industries with highly specialized technology.
Construction is particularly attractive because of its size and the amount of work that still depends on manual measurements, fragmented software and local processes.
But entering the United States will also test whether Spotable's technology advantage is enough. The American roofing market already has established measurement, estimating and workflow providers, and sales in construction remain heavily relationship-driven.
Spotable's decision to build relationships with manufacturers and distributors, rather than relying exclusively on direct software sales to contractors, could therefore be as important as the technology itself.
What this means for European companies
Spotable offers a useful lesson for European founders considering America: a U.S. expansion strategy does not necessarily need to start in New York or Silicon Valley.
The right entry point is often wherever the industry's customers, distributors and manufacturers are concentrated. For Spotable, that means construction hubs in the Southeast rather than traditional technology centers.
Its €4 million raise gives the company more capital to pursue that strategy. Now comes the harder part: turning a promising American entry into repeatable U.S. growth.
