Contech company Skillit announced that it has launched into business with a $5.1 million seed round led by Building Ventures and including MetaProp, HOLT Ventures, Great North Ventures, 1Sharpe Ventures and Takeoff Capital.

"The platform is already in the hands of select ENR contractors including industry leader Messer Construction," a company press release said. "It vets workers with proprietary, trade-specific assessments while collecting hundreds of data points to create the first rich, taxonomized view of skilled construction labor across the entire employee lifecycle. The result is a single platform for sourcing, skills assessment, hiring, training, evaluation and win-back that meaningfully improves workforce ROI for contractors facing record labor shortages."

A taxonomized view of skilled construction labor would refer to workers associated with descriptive categories of work over the period they are employed or contracted by a company. That could in theory include types of tools and techniques someone is familiar with and the general categories of work in which they have experience. As an example, someone might have done roofing and siding but not windows, or the person might have done framing but not finish carpentry.