BasisBoard
Bid management for construction subcontractors, and the earlier basis CRM.
BasisBoard is the bid-management product in the fundraising essay: a platform for subcontractors. The seed round was $3.4m in 2021, about two years after the company started, raised with an email blurb and a long memo. The decks and the memo are in the fundraising essay .
The old On a Whim homepage described the company as “basis”, a CRM for construction trade contractors, cofounded while Andy was at Uber ATG. The July 2020 essay says Andy and Kevin started it with no construction experience, by talking to owners, general contractors, project managers, estimators, and superintendents, and that it was accepted to Y Combinator S19.
TODO(andy): Should BasisBoard and Downtobid stay as two case studies? The fundraising essay tells them as one raise history. Confirm the public name (BasisBoard vs basis) and that https://basisboard.com/ still works. The 2020 essay’s “accepted to YC S19” is about this company; Ikigai’s YC outcome is a separate open question on the Ikigai page.