NavigateAI

Summary active Updated May 27, 2026

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Location San Francisco, CA
Founded 2025
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $25M
Website https://www.navigateai.com/
Sector
ai construction real-estate physical-ai workforce ai-agents enterprise-software

Investors

Elad Gil Seed (led, $25M; Khosla Ventures, Fifth Wall, Lennar, Tishman Speyer, Helix Electric participated) (2026)
gil-capital Seed (led, $25M; Khosla Ventures, Fifth Wall, Lennar, Tishman Speyer, Helix Electric participated) (2026)

Founders

Eric Wu Co-Founder & CEO

About

NavigateAI is a San Francisco-based AI company founded in 2025 by Eric Wu (Opendoor co-founder) building a field-grade copilot for the physical-world labor market — a real-time coaching, scoping, quality-control, and technical-information layer designed for construction, real estate, and infrastructure field workers 123. The founding team includes builders and researchers from Opendoor, Stripe, DeepMind, Stanford, and Google 1. The $25M seed announced May 26, 2026 was led by Elad Gil with participation from Khosla Ventures and Fifth Wall; strategic partners Lennar, Tishman Speyer, and Helix Electric joined alongside angels Zach Frankel (Ramp), Dallas Tanner (Invitation Homes), Marcus Ridgway (Invitation Homes), Winston Weinberg (Harvey.ai), Gary Beasley (Roofstock), Jesse Zhang (Decagon), Apoorva Mehta (Instacart), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Logan Green (Lyft), and Brian Armstrong 12.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-05-26 Seed $25M Elad Gil Khosla Ventures, Fifth Wall, Lennar, Tishman Speyer, Helix Electric, Zach Frankel, Dallas Tanner, Marcus Ridgway, Winston Weinberg, Gary Beasley, Jesse Zhang, Apoorva Mehta, Tony Xu, Logan Green, Brian Armstrong 123

What Investors Say

“AI copilots for the physical world is the kind of application that will define the next era of AI.”

— Elad Gil, Lead Investor 1

What Founders Say

No independently sourced founder quotes found at this time.

Sources

  1. GlobeNewsWire, “NavigateAI Launches to Build the AI Copilot for the Physical World,” May 26, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/26/3301425/0/en/navigateai-launches-to-build-the-ai-copilot-for-the-physical-world.html↩↩↩↩↩

  2. Inman, “Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu Launches AI Construction ‘Copilot’ Startup,” May 26, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://www.inman.com/2026/05/26/eric-wu-opendoor-navigateai-construction-copilot-startup/↩↩↩

  3. Manila Times (GlobeNewsWire), “NavigateAI Launches to Build the AI Copilot for the Physical World,” May 27, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/05/27/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/navigateai-launches-to-build-the-ai-copilot-for-the-physical-world/2352↩↩