Maria Davidson is the co-founder and CEO of Kojo, a startup building a construction materials management platform for contractors and suppliers. Merge has raised over $85M from leading investors 8VC, Tiger Global and Battery Ventures. We dig into: 

- VCs passing on their $4M seed because construction tech was unproven
- How to acquire sub-contractors when they can't be found online and during Covid
- What most construction tech startups get wrong about the market opportunity
- Raising growth rounds at the height of the market in 2021 

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