Jesse Devitte
Investor at Skillit
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, General Partner
2017 - Current
Building Ventures invests in companies that are reshaping the way we design, build, operate and experience our built environment. We partner with visionary entrepreneurs who will have a profound effect on how and where we can best live as humans on our planet.
Building Ventures invests in early-stage startups.
Co-Founder
2002
Borealis Ventures partners with early-stage entrepreneurs to build market-defining companies in information technology and life sciences.
Investor, Board Observer
2021
Aeroseal is a climate tech company on a mission -- to reduce the world's carbon emissions by 1 gigaton annually through shrinking the carbon emissions from buildings with our climate technologies for duct and air sealing.
Aeroseal is a climate tech company with a mission to shrink carbon emissions from buildings — as much as 1 gigaton of CO2 annually.
Raised $119,000,000.00 from Climate Investment, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Climate Investment.
Investor, Director
2022
Skillit is on a mission to be America’s best matchmaker of craft labor and employers. By doing so, we will make skilled labor one of the greatest assets on Earth.
Skillit is a data-driven recruiting platform for skilled full-time construction labor.
Raised $13,600,000.00 from Building Ventures, MetaProp, Bow Capital, Takeoff Capital, 1Sharpe Ventures, Great North Ventures, Building Ventures, Holt Ventures, MetaProp and Building Ventures.
Investor, Board Observer
2022
Our mission is to help make the construction industry more efficient by using technology to better communicate project costs between companies.
Clearstory is the only Change Order Communication tool designed to reduce risk for all commercial construction stakeholders.
Raised $33,800,000.00 from Jackson Square Ventures, Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Industry Ventures, GS Futures, Building Ventures and Prudence.
Investor, Director
2019
The Join platform enables teams to make better design and construction decisions and unlock dramatic improvements in project delivery by connecting projects and people to data.
The collaborative project delivery platform for the built environment.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from MetaProp, Building Ventures, Ironspring Ventures and SignalFire.
Investor
2020
Mosaic is a technology-focused construction company. Mosaic develops tools and technologies to make the construction process much more efficient, so that beautiful environments can be made available to many more people.
Mosaic is a a tech-enabled general contractor for the residential development industry.
Raised $68,750,000.00 from Bossa Invest, Andreessen Horowitz, Innovation Endeavors, invisionAZ, Tekfen Ventures, Starwood Capital Group, Founders Fund, Peak State Ventures, Building Ventures and Brightstone Venture Capital.
Investor
2017
Sustainability solved with software. We make cloud-based software that collects data, creates investment-grade sustainability reports, and alerts you to improvement opportunities. https://www.measurabl.com/
Measurabl develops an ESG data management platform for commercial real estate.
Raised $172,610,005.00 from Concrete Venture Capital, RET Ventures, Lincoln Property Company, Suffolk Technologies, Sway Ventures, Moderne Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Constellation Technology Ventures, Camber Creek and Colliers.
Investor
2017
Dandelion replaces your existing heating, cooling and hot water equipment with a geothermal system that harvests energy from under your yard. A geothermal system uses a heat pump and underground pipes to move heat between the earth and your home — it’s the most efficient way to heat and cool your home.
Dandelion Energy is a home geothermal company that offers geothermal heating and cooling installations.
Raised $174,500,000.00 from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Google Ventures, NGP Energy Capital Management, LenX and Collaborative Fund.
Investor, Board Observer
2020
enVerid is committed to developing leading products that deliver energy savings while providing healthier indoor air quality (IAQ) worldwide. By reducing greenhouse gases they make the world a cleaner, healthier place - both inside and out.
enVerid Systems provides indoor air quality and HVAC energy-saving technologies for commercial buildings.
Raised $38,679,384.00 from Elemental Impact.