Why we invested in leancon
Israel Early-Stage VC
Posted December 2025
Where Construction Really Begins
Most people think construction starts when the bulldozers and cranes arrive on-site. We believe it starts much earlier, in a messy universe of hand-drawn sketches, CAD files, spreadsheets, guesswork, and decisions that quietly lock in the fate of a project months before anyone steps on-site.
Pre-construction is the construction industry’s invisible power center. It decides what a project will cost, how long it will take, how much risk it carries, and whether it succeeds at all. Yet it remains one of the most analog, under-served processes in this multi-trillion-dollar industry.
This disconnect is exactly what LeanCon seeks to bridge.
Turning Pre-Construction into an exact science
LeanCon is building the intelligent operating layer that pre-construction has been missing. Instead of manual workflows and scattered data, the platform delivers automated, structured planning, AI-driven cost & risk insights, faster, more accurate decision-making, and immediate margin improvement for general contractors.
The result: a phase that once relied on intuition and coordination chaos becomes a predictable, data-driven engine
This is why we’re so excited to partner with LeanCon. We are always searching for teams building category-defining infrastructure which can challenge traditional perceptions in massive industries that have been left behind.
A few reasons why we’re so excited about LeanCon
1. It attacks the highest-leverage point in construction. Every mistake upstream becomes exponentially more expensive downstream. LeanCon inserts clarity precisely where it has the greatest ripple effect across the entire project lifecycle.
2. Ripe for disruption. Construction tech and AI are surging, and we believe that pre-construction is the last untouched frontier, with nearly a million general contractors across the United States.
3. Team with deep, authentic credibility. Ziv Levi and Sapir Tubul have intimate knowledge of the problem at hand. Born and raised around construction sites (later serving as engineers on large projects), the founders bring a rare combination of personal experience, technical rigor, and industry trust. Their product vision is built from the ground up based on firsthand experience.
4. It’s built to scale. General contractors and developers feel the pain first, but the ripple reaches the broader infrastructure: banks, insurers, and real estate investors. LeanCon sits at the nexus of cost, risk, and feasibility, making it a future backbone across the breadth of the construction industry.
At Ibex Investors, we’re proud to support Ziv, Sapir, and the entire LeanCon team as they bring precision, automation, and intelligence to the most overlooked and yet most influential stage of construction.
The future of construction is being built upstream, and LeanCon is the platform sketching the blueprint.
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