Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million

Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool, an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in their careers as architects.

Along with Patrick’s brother, Daniel Chopson, the two Georgia Institute of Technology  graduates have developed a suite of software products that are now used by thousands of architects, engineers, contractors and developers in 22 countries around the world, like EYP, P2S, Skanska and JLL. The company’s software is also taught in universities, including California Polytechnic State University, the University of Illinois and UNC Charlotte, along with their alma matter, Georgia Tech.

Now the company is $5.7 million richer following the close of its series A funding led by the Los Angeles-based investment firm Mucker Capital  and including previous investors Urban.us, Knoll Ventures and Atlanta’s own TechSquare Labs.