NavigateAI launches with $25M seed

NavigateAI launched with $25 million in seed funding at a $225 million post-money valuation to build hands-free AI copilots for construction and other field workers, TechCrunch reports. Its product runs on smartphones and Meta AI glasses, while newer contracts reportedly take a share of customer savings instead of token-plus-margin pricing. Builders should file this as a field-agent business model priced against measured job savings, not API usage; the valuation test already facing physical-AI startups shows why deployment evidence matters more than a large round.