Shovels

- 11/06/2025
- Seed
- $5,000,000
At Shovels, we make building permit data useful. We continuously track, normalize, and categorize hundreds of millions of building permit records across the country. Shovels enables our customers to explore, profile, and derive actionable insights from our database of residential, commercial, and contractor records.
Shovels is headquartered in Silicon Valley and backed by Coelius Capital, Founders Network Fund, and Mission One Capital.
- Industry Data Infrastructure and Analytics
- Website https://www.shovels.ai/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/shovels/
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Ryan BuckleyCo Founder

I'm now building Shovels to solve the GTM problem in the construction industry. We analyze 100M building permits nationwide to help the companies serving the building trades grow their revenue.
I also teach business and entrepreneurship at Diablo Valley College. It's fun!
Past exits:
- Scripted
- TrackJobChanges
- eNPS
- Name2Domain
- Toofr
- MightySignal