Planera Raises $5.4 Million in Seed Funding to Transform Construction Industry Project Planning
Summary
If our proposals lack precision, we risk decreased project profitability or losing the bid altogether," said Joseph Henry, Estimation Manager of a Planera customer. We decided to adopt Planera because it reduces the type of inaccuracies that led to lost bids or cost risks for the most valuable projects, which are often large and complex in nature. "Historically, construction scheduling and project management solutions have been overly complicated and non-intuitive," said Planera lead investor Ken Elefant of Sorenson Ventures. "Prior to creating Planera, Bhandari was the founder of Zenlabs, which was a company that used screentime monitoring and wellness tools to promote online mindfulness and combat the digital attention crisis. Previously, Bhandari was the founder and CEO of Skyfire, which was acquired by Opera Software.Planers is a collaborative digital whiteboard that can create resource-loaded CPM schedules for the construction industry.