WakeCap, a Saudi Arabian construction technology company, acquired Frontline, a Singapore startup that makes AI software for planning construction projects, the companies announced on June 14, 2026. Terms were not disclosed.
WakeCap said the deal extends its business from real-time monitoring of construction sites into project planning and optimisation. It plans to connect Frontline's planning tools with its own live data from the field, so that construction teams can compare what was planned with what is actually happening, spot deviations and make decisions earlier.
It was WakeCap's second announced acquisition in about seven months, following its purchase of Brazil's Trackfy in November 2025. Frontline's chief executive, Luis Martinez, said joining WakeCap was a step towards the future he and his team had always believed construction deserved; the companies did not say whether Frontline would keep its brand.
What Frontline built
Frontline was founded in Singapore in 2021 by Luis Martinez and Ricky Ding. Its software helps project teams build construction schedules, working out the order of activities and how to allocate people and equipment so that a project takes less time and costs less.
The main feature is simulation. Planners can run scenarios and stress-test a schedule before work begins, to find bottlenecks and check that a plan is likely to hold once conditions on site change. Frontline sells to contractors and to the clients who commission projects, across industrial, energy and infrastructure construction.
Frontline's funding, investors and headcount were not reported. Martinez said the company was built to close the gap between planning and execution, noting that projects are often won on one set of assumptions and delivered on another.
“Construction's hardest problem has never been a lack of data. It's the drift between the plan and what happens on site.”
What WakeCap does
WakeCap was founded in 2017 by Hassan Albalawi and Ishita Sood. It sells wearable devices and software that track workers on construction sites in real time, giving contractors and project managers data on labour activity and safety. The company says it has tracked more than 150 million labour hours on Saudi giga-projects including Aramco, NEOM, Qiddiya and King Salman Park, and it also has projects in the UAE, the United States, Brazil and Japan.
Wamda reported that WakeCap raised $28 million in May 2025. Six months later it bought Trackfy, a Brazilian workforce safety and operational intelligence platform for industrial clients, and made Brazil its regional headquarters for Latin America. Neither acquisition price was disclosed.
Why WakeCap is buying
WakeCap's argument is that the costliest failures in construction start before anyone reaches the site, in plans built on assumptions the field never confirms. Its own sensors capture what happens during execution; Frontline is meant to make the plans themselves better before work begins. Putting the two together, WakeCap said, lets it work with customers across the whole life of a project rather than only during construction.
Albalawi, WakeCap's co-founder and chief executive, said the industry's hardest problem was not a lack of data but the drift between the plan and what happens on site, and that Frontline would help move project controls from reactive to predictive.
Martinez described the combination as a continuous loop of information running from the planning table to the last worker on site, and said WakeCap had been tackling the same gap between plan and execution on the jobsite through real-time data and what he called worker-first technology. In November 2025 Wamda reported that WakeCap's systems were deployed across about $120 billion of active projects.
A large construction pipeline at home
The deal comes as infrastructure spending grows in WakeCap's home market. The company noted that Saudi Arabia is investing nearly $1 trillion in construction and urban development, and tied the acquisition to the Vision 2030 programme's goals for safer and more sustainable building.
Arab Founders, which also reported the deal, described it as combining Frontline's predictive AI planning and simulation tools with WakeCap's real-time execution data. WakeCap said the acquisition strengthens its position where AI, connected devices and the digital transformation of construction meet, and with Trackfy and Frontline it has now added both a Latin American operation and a planning product within a year.
