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SymTerra secures £1.1m from strategic angels to replace WhatsApp communications for construction project teams

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SymTerra
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Sarah Crawley; John Ryan
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£1.1m
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London, United Kingdom
Oct 14, 2025

SymTerra, the UK-based infrastructure and construction communication and reporting platform, has secured £1.1 million in strategic funding from a group of industry and technology angels, alongside innovation funding from Innovate UK, to accelerate its growth and expand its AI capabilities.

The raise builds on SymTerra’s previous pre-seed round, which helped the company achieve profitability and scale its platform across more than £10 billion worth of infrastructure and construction projects, including water networks, rail upgrades, and transport operations.

The round is led by strategic angel investors, including Fabienne Viala, former Chair and CEO of Bouygues UK and one of the UK’s most respected infrastructure and construction leaders, alongside members of HERmesa and Enterprise 100 (E100) as well as innovation funding from Innovate UK.

Viala will also join SymTerra as its first Non-Executive Director, bringing decades of leadership experience in large-scale infrastructure delivery to support the company’s next phase of growth.

The new funding will drive key hires and the further development of SymAI, an intelligent layer that turns field communication data into actionable insights.

Recognised by Bloomberg as one of the UK’s Top 25 Startups, SymTerra continues to gain traction across the built environment as it redefines how projects communicate, faster, smarter, and with data that works as hard as its people.

The industry thrives on collaboration, yet the way teams communicate is structured for failure. On-site teams have the most amount of knowledge, yet it’s largely untapped. We are solving one of the industry’s biggest productivity problems by making it easy for on-site and office-based teams to communicate and report in real time. This funding allows us to accelerate product development and scale across the sector.
Sarah Crawley, Co-founder & CEO
SymTerra is addressing one of the most critical challenges facing infrastructure delivery: communication. The platform’s simplicity and understanding of life on site are exactly what the industry needs to drive lasting change. Sarah and her team combine real-world project experience with technology that scales, and I’m delighted to support their next stage of growth.
Fabienne Viala, Angel investor
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