Female-led UK construction data startup Qflow secures €2.3 million strategic investment from Autodesk

Qualis Flow (Qflow), a London-based construction data platform, has secured a €2.3 million (£2 million) strategic investment from San Francisco-based software firm Autodesk to fuel its plan to link construction data back with design intent.

According to the company, this investment builds on the existing product collaboration between Qflow and Autodesk Construction Cloud, with the shared goal of creating an integrated solution that helps close the loop between design intent and construction reality.

“Construction teams are being asked to deliver more than ever before: better margins, lower carbon and stronger compliance. However, they can’t do that without better data from site. This investment from Autodesk is a strong endorsement of our approach and vision of the role that construction-phase data and intelligence must play in building more responsibly. Together, we aim to eliminate the disconnect that causes billions in waste and unnecessary carbon emissions across the industry every year,” said Brittany Harris, co-founder and CEO of Qflow. 

Qflow was founded in 2018 by Harris and Jade Cohen with a vision to build an automated data collection/aggregation platform for construction projects and create the industry’s most comprehensive dataset of construction materials.

Qflow is a digital platform that captures real-time materials and waste data at the source, enabling project teams to make informed decisions on cost, carbon, and quality.

According to a UK startup, this investment supports a shared goal to reduce rework, cut waste and improve quality by bringing trusted, real time construction phase data into design workflows.

Autodesk also claims that this collaboration reflects its ambition to help the construction industry reduce waste, improve data quality, and enable better sustainability outcomes.

“We believe that meaningful progress towards more sustainable design and make processes starts with better data: captured earlier, verified at the source, and connected across the lifecycle of a project,” explained Joe Speicher, Autodesk’s chief sustainability officer. 

The focus of the collaboration will be to leverage Qflow’s field-verified data and AI-driven document processing, alongside Autodesk Construction Cloud. Qflow notes that this will enable construction teams to validate that delivered materials match design specifications, reduce rework caused by substitutions, delays or quality issues, track as-built conditions to support alignment with design intent, and identify potential supply-chain risks linked to sustainability credentials and compliance. 

Sidharth Haksar, VP and head of construction strategy and partnerships at Autodesk, said, “Our customers are under increasing pressure to deliver projects that perform better across cost, schedule, quality, and sustainability outcomes. While project performance is shaped in preconstruction, it is realised and proven through reliable construction-phase data. That intelligence helps teams understand material flows, reduce waste, and strengthen carbon reporting, supporting the shift towards more circular construction. 

“By investing in Qflow, we’re supporting their mission to help project teams improve quality control, better coordinate site and office teams, and ensure fewer disruptions to programmes, in turn, transforming construction-phase data from a compliance burden into a genuine competitive advantage.”

According to a UK firm, access to real-time data is critical, not just for profitability, but for accurate reporting and regulatory compliance around sustainability. This investment seeks to address these issues, claims Qflow. 

The fresh capital will support Qflow’s continued product development and accelerate collaboration with Autodesk Construction Cloud. It will also help expand Qflow’s presence in the UK and internationally, including North America, where demand for construction data quality solutions is growing rapidly.

“The industry is at a tipping point. Teams are no longer satisfied with rough estimates and retrospective reporting. Instead, they want data and insights that they can trust, while there’s still time to act on it. This collaboration with Autodesk allows us to deliver that capability on a worldwide scale, supporting better decision-making for projects, protecting profits and the planet,” added Harris. 

In 2025, Qflow announced that it had officially achieved B Corp Certification, earning a score of 100.3. Last year, the company also won the King’s Award for Innovation. In May 2023, it closed a €8.3 million Series A funding round led by Climate Tech VC Systemiq Capital. 

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