Vikas Enti spent a decade at Amazon deploying robots in fulfillment centers and then cofounded Reframe Systems in 2022 to apply those skills to housing construction. The U.S. faces a shortage of millions of homes and hundreds of thousands of construction workers, while buildings account for around 40% of global emissions. Reframe combines software and robotic microfactories to lower the cost and speed of factory-built housing. The company raised $20 million in a Series A led by Eclipse and VoLo Earth Ventures. The construction industry is fragmented, underinvested in R&D, and has seen some modular builders struggle to scale.
"The biggest catalyst was me becoming a dad of twin daughters,"
"My kids being born prompted introspection on where else I could be applying my skills that had greater benefits to society."
"It's been a function of how fragmented the industry is," Enti says.
"Construction as an industry has chronically underinvested in R&D because there have actually been very few players that have grown large enough to be able to afford an R&D budget," he says.
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