Formwork Labs 2026
“It is not the beauty of the building you should look at: it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” – David Allen Coe
The Formwork Labs 2026 Program is finalized.
November 7, 2025 | Applications Open
December 15, 2025 | Rolling Interviews Begin
January 4, 2026 | Applications Close
January 12, 2026 | Second Round Interviews Begin
Jan 23, 2026 | Notification of Winners and Announcement
Pre-Program Sessions | Open to all 2026 Formwork Labs applications
February 19, 2026 at 8am PT | Why an MVP is Extremely Important for Construction Tech by Aditya Thakur (Autodesk/Plangrid)
February 27, 2026 8am PT | Building Construction Tech - Software Tech Stack 101 by Abhishek Garg (Neeviq)
Official Formwork Labs 2026 Sessions
Sessions took place on Wednesdays at 1pm PT / 4pm ET
February 18, 2026 | Program Kick Off
February 25, 2026 | Customer Discovery by Aditya Thakur (Formerly Autodesk/Plangrid, Brick & Mortar Ventures)
March 4, 2026 | Crunching Numbers, Telling Stories: A Comprehensive Approach to ROI and Case Studies by Erin Khan (Erin Khan Consulting, formerly Suffolk)
March 10, 2026 | Customer Conversations Kick Off [In-Person, San Francisco, CA] — See Below for Additional Details
March 11-12, 2026 | BuiltWorlds Venture West [In-Person, San Francisco, CA]
March 18, 2026 | Tools and Techniques for Outreach and Product Validation by Sergey Grushko (Airtasks, Formwork Labs 2023 cohort)
March 25, 2025 | How to Build a Sales Team by Mark Facciani (PATH, formerly Tenna)
April 1, 2026 | The Importance of Branding and Storytelling in the Early Days by Scott Suiter (Suiter&Company, formerly ENJOY)
April 8, 2026 | Construction Creators: How to Build an Audience on Social Media panel featuring Matt Graves (Construction Yeti), Angelo Suntres (Human Side of Construction), and Kelsey Formost (Magic Words Copywriting, Togal AI) moderated by Bhragan Paramanantham (Last Week in ConTech, Formwork Labs)
April 15, 2026 | Building a REAL Target Account List by Brian Vizaretta (DroneDeploy)
April 22, 2026 | How to Close your First 100k in ARR by Martin Roth (Formerly Levelset)
April 29, 2026 | Pitching to Venture Capital vs Pitching to Construction panel
May 4, 2026 | Pitch Practice Week
May 14, 2026 | Demo Day [In-Person, San Francisco, CA] — See Below for Additional Details
Throughout this 3 month accelerator program, Formwork Labs will connect the cohort with additional customer conversations mentors to provide feedback on product development and product strategy. We expect to make 50-80 introductions during the program [depending on experiences and interest of the customer conversations mentors and their relevancy].
March 10, 2026 | Customer Conversations Kick Off [Tentative Schedule Below]
8am | Breakfast and Networking
8:45am | Welcome and Kick Off by Alice Leung, Bhragan Paramanantham, and Darren Bechtel
9am | Fireside Chat with Zach Scheel (The Rhumbix Story) by Darren Bechtel
10am | Legal Best Practices by David Richardson (DLA Piper)
11am | Brick & Mortar Ventures Team Introduction & AMA featuring Darren Bechtel, Kaustubh Pandya, Austin Yount, Guillaume Bazouin
12pm | Networking Lunch
1pm | Customer Conversations Kick Off and Pitches
1:30pm | Customer Conversations Rotation
4pm | Formwork Labs Happy Hour
May 13, 2026 | Pre-Demo Day
8am | Breakfast and Networking
9am | AMA with Javed Singha (Co-Founder of Fieldwire)
10am | Winning Construction Company CFO's: Make it Easy to Buy Your Solution by Sue Bhattacharjee (Gilbane Building Company)
11am | Construction Jobsite Visit
1pm | Lunch
2pm | Pitch Practice
6pm | Dinner
May 14, 2026 | Demo Day
11:30am | Lunch and Networking
1pm | Demo Day Welcome by Darren Bechtel (Brick & Mortar Ventures)
1:10pm | State of Construction Tech Fireside Chat
2pm | Demo Day [Virtual and In-Person]
4pm | Formwork Labs Demo Day Mixer at Brick & Mortar Ventures Office
Hear from the cohort
“Formwork Labs has opened many doors for us in the construction industry that otherwise would have taken us a long time to do so. The rare opportunity to speak with many construction enterprises helped us rethink about the problem we are solving in our users’ perspectives.”
— Hao Li, Founder & CEO, SupHub
“Formwork labs was an incredible program for us. We started as a stealth company with no website and left the program with real revenue and multiple press articles. Everyone in construction knows Brick & Mortar, if you are in construction then this is the only program for you.”
— Alex Bell, Founder & CEO, Automatic Construction
“Formwork Labs helped us gain exposure with international Venture Capital funds and potential clients. Speaking with potential clients and talking with them about us being in the Formwork Labs acceleration program backed by Brick & Mortar and BuiltWords gave them confidence to believe in our team and product.”