Post by Jesse Landry

Enlaye just raised $5M in seed funding. Construction has spent decades wrestling with delays, cost overruns, documentation challenges, and risk hiding in plain sight. Glasswing Ventures and Link Ventures led the round, with Imad Ventures, AiSprouts VC, Hannah Grey VC Ventures, and Apprentis Ventures participating. That is a strong group of investors backing a future where project risk becomes more measurable and manageable. The story starts long before the funding announcement. Co-Founders Philippe Rival, CEO, and Stamati Liapis, PhD, CTO, first met in high school in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. Years later, they reunited in Boston. One brought construction expertise and a Harvard Business School MBA. The other brought a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Boston University School of Medicine and more than a decade of experience in machine learning and human cognition. Different backgrounds. Shared conviction. The company name points back to that beginning. Enlaye is a reference to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, connecting the business to the place where the founders first met. Strong companies are often built on long-standing relationships and complementary expertise. Construction has never lacked ambition. Visibility is another challenge. Delays emerge. Costs rise. Errors compound. Teams often discover risks after schedules and budgets have already been affected. Enlaye built an AI-native Risk Lifecycle Management platform designed for the built world, helping contractors, owners, and developers identify, assess, compare, and manage risk throughout a project's lifecycle. The platform uses graph-based approaches to analyze project relationships and identify risks before they become claims, disputes, budget overruns, or missed deadlines. Construction projects are complex networks of stakeholders and dependencies. Understanding those connections can make the difference between staying ahead of risk and reacting to it. Investor interest did not appear overnight. Enlaye was built on industry knowledge, technical depth, and execution. Harvard Innovation Labs. The 2023 Boston University New Venture Competition. Selection into VINCI's Leonard SEED program. The financing brings Enlaye's reported funding to at least $6.7M, including its earlier $1.7M pre-seed round. More important than the total is what it signals. Capital continues flowing toward technologies that help industries reduce uncertainty and improve decision-making. This funding round reflects confidence in the vision being built by Philippe Rival and Stamatios Liapis. As construction and infrastructure projects become more complex, managing risk effectively is becoming increasingly valuable. Enlaye is focused on that challenge, and investors have provided additional resources to accelerate the journey. #ConstructionTech #PropTech #RiskManagement #Infrastructure #VentureCapital