Dili raises $15M Series A to automate compliance on the US infrastructure buildout
Dili raised a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures to automate compliance on capital projects, and has grown more than 500 percent in six months. The company now powers compliance, monitoring, and audit across more than 700 projects representing $4 billion of project spend for Fortune 500 energy and infrastructure clients.
Context from: Dili | Ycombinator
The decision it puts on your desk
any company managing a portfolio of capital projects with federal compliance requirements should evaluate whether a software layer between their projects and the Department of Labor is cheaper than the alternative. If you are running Davis-Bacon or PWA compliance on spreadsheets across more than 10 active sites, request a demo at dili.ai and calculate the cost of your current audit exposure before the next project starts.
America is going through a once-in-a-generation infrastructure buildout. One missed compliance requirement can put hundreds of millions of dollars at risk.
Dili raised a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures Monday, alongside participation from Y Combinator, Brick & Mortar Ventures, and Allianz. The round lands six months after the company's previous fundraise, and the numbers explain why: Dili has grown more than 500 percent in that window.
The company now powers compliance, monitoring, and audit across more than 700 projects representing $4 billion of project spend. Fortune 500 clients building some of America's largest energy and infrastructure projects use Dili to automate PWA compliance, Davis-Bacon compliance, and more, alongside more than a thousand developers, EPCs, and contractors.
The context matters. The US is pouring money into infrastructure at a scale that has not been seen in decades. Every dollar comes with compliance requirements. Prevailing wage rules. Apprenticeship ratios. Reporting deadlines. On a billion-dollar project, the penalty for getting one of these wrong is not a fine, it is months of work stoppage, litigation, and reputational damage.
Traditional compliance on capital projects runs on spreadsheets, site visits, and manual audit. That worked when a company managed five projects. It breaks at 50. Dili's clients are managing portfolios where missing one Davis-Bacon certification can cascade into a Department of Labor investigation that freezes every active job site.
The round was led by Vinod Khosla and included support from Garry Tan, Darren Bechtel, and existing investors. The investor syndicate reads like a map of the problem Dili is solving. Khosla brings the AI thesis. Bechtel brings the infrastructure. Tan brings the startup velocity. The combination says this is not a SaaS company that happens to sell to construction. It is a compliance automation company attacking one of the most regulated corners of the physical economy.
I think Dili is one of the better examples of AI applied to the real economy that does not require a leap of imagination to understand. The problem is not subtle. The compliance requirements are not going away. The number of projects is not going down. The only question is whether the compliance layer runs on software or on spreadsheets and phone calls.