Skillit Announces Strategic Partnership With DPR Construction & Suffolk Technologies

NEW YORK (June 22, 2026) — Skillit, an AI-powered hiring platform transforming how construction workers are sourced, screened and coordinated, announced a strategic partnership with DPR Construction and Suffolk Technologies, the venture capital affiliate of Suffolk Construction. The partnership, supported by equity investments from WND Ventures (the venture capital arm of DPR) and Suffolk Technologies, marks a major milestone as leading construction firms begin investing directly in workforce infrastructure to address the industry’s ongoing skilled labor shortage.

This partnership signals a broader shift as major construction companies work to resolve a skilled labor shortage by investing in AI-native workforce infrastructure.

The investment deepens Skillit’s partnership with two of the construction industry’s largest builders, who will serve as national-scale design partners, as the company continues building the AI infrastructure layer for craft hiring. This partnership will support continued growth of Skillit’s worker network, workflows, data, automation capabilities and executive team, ensuring it is well-positioned to execute at its next stage of scale as the company moves toward onboarding the next wave of workers and becoming the construction industry’s default craft and field labor infrastructure platform.

“The world’s ambition has outpaced its capacity to build, and today we lack both the skilled workforce and the systems needed to deploy that talent to deliver America’s most mission-critical projects,” said Fraser Patterson, founder & CEO of Skillit. “Skillit’s mission is to solve construction’s labor shortage, starting with fixing access to the millions of skilled workers who already exist. Having strategic partners like DPR and Suffolk Technologies supporting that mission is a strong signal that the industry is ready for, and consolidating around, a new category of AI-powered craft hiring infrastructure.”

As labor shortages continue to add pressure on project delivery timelines nationwide, Skillit sees the construction industry entering a new era where workforce infrastructure will become as critical as project management, procurement and scheduling systems.

The announcement also reflects growing momentum around Skillit’s role within the broader construction ecosystem. In addition to DPR Construction and Suffolk Construction, Skillit is also being adopted and expanded nationally by dozens of industry players including Swinerton, Mortenson and Brasfield & Gorrie Industries.

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