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MITER LANDS $40M SERIES B FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE TOOLS

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FRI, OCT 2, 2026

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Construction workforce management platform Miter raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $78 million.

Miter, led by CEO Connor Watumull, secured the funding to expand its platform that helps construction companies manage their labor operations. The Series B round demonstrates continued investor interest in digital tools targeting the construction sector. In other funding news, Miami-based Doxx.net raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The platform provides serverless peer-to-peer calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, now entering open beta. Meanwhile, Salesforce agreed to acquire Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research startup, for approximately $2 billion. Listen Labs had raised $69 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation in January. The acquisition signals Salesforce's push into AI-driven customer intelligence as companies seek to modernize customer research processes.

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