The entrepreneurs behind Veev are returning with a new startup, this time targeting one of the real estate industry’s biggest pain points: the planning stage.
Israeli startup Spacial has developed a platform that can generate complete construction plans at the click of a button, in line with regulations and ready for permitting. The system combines technology, artificial intelligence and human expertise.
Spacial was founded by CEO Maor Greenberg, who has a background in entrepreneurship and construction, and Ami Avrahami, a co-founder of Veev, which shut down after a major funding round was canceled. Drawing on their experience with the industry’s challenges, the founders aim to reduce delays and costs caused by municipal bureaucracy and limitations in the planning process.
According to a report by Oshry Alkeslasi on Geektime, the company recently completed a $10 million seed round led by TLV Partners, with participation from Mango Capital, Re Angels and HTV. Spacial employs about 20 people, some at its development center in Tel Aviv and others at its Palo Alto headquarters.
Spacial’s system is designed to produce engineering plans, identify design conflicts, verify compliance with municipal standards and generate signed documents ready for submission. The process currently takes weeks or months and is often prolonged by repeated errors and endless coordination.
“Our system reviews the architectural model and performs an automatic design validation within seconds,” CEO Maor Greenberg told Geektime. He described the platform as a network of AI agents, each specializing in a different field – engineering, regulations, municipal codes and more – that work together to streamline the planning process.
The platform also includes a human component. “Municipalities still require a professional signature from a licensed engineer, so we bring engineers into the final stage to ensure the output meets all requirements and to improve the model, which continues to learn and update itself based on actual corrections from the field,” Greenberg said. This combination of automation and human review gives Spacial a competitive advantage: the process is substantially faster, the plans and documents receive professional review, and the final output meets the required standards.
Another advantage is the platform’s integration with Revit and AutoCAD, the software used by architects and engineers. Professionals can continue working with familiar tools and send their plans through Spacial for review and approval. The workflow remains familiar while becoming considerably more efficient.
When bureaucracy becomes code and checks are carried out in real time, the question is no longer how long a permit will take, but how quickly construction can begin.
