Canvas’ Post

Last week I had the privilege of joining fellow female founders Jiayue (Jenny) He (Ergeon), Shaily Garg (GlobalFair), Maria Davidson (Kojo), and Anna Cheniuntai (Apis Cor) for an incredible panel on the intersection of technology and construction.Key takeaways from our conversation: - Technological evolution in construction has to translate to impact. Despite the allure to build a cool new product for a "slow-moving" industry, you need to solve a real problem and understand the constraints that have made it difficult to introduce innovation into the industry. - Understanding your customer's pain is everything. As lifelong engineers with no construction experience prior to Canvas, Kevin Albert and I became a drywall subcontractor for two years to learn directly about problems in the field before iterating our product. - Construction is so much larger than just what happens on-site. I met incredible folks driving innovation in adjacent fields like site law, finance, planning, and design. It was a great audience! Thank you to Female Founders Edge, Hilti Venture, and Women in Construction Tech in Construction for hosting an event that left us all inspired.It was a reminder that ConTech is not the future - it is happening now.