Artificial Intelligence at Drake Star

Attentive.ai is a leading AI-native construction software platform transforming preconstruction and field-service workflows for contractors and suppliers globally. Founded in 2017 by graduates of IIT Delhi, the company’s flagship product, Beam AI, delivers fully automated, AI-driven quantity takeoffs that significantly reduce manual effort while increasing speed, accuracy, and bid throughput.

Beam AI applies advanced machine learning and computer vision to construction drawings, enabling 100% automated takeoffs and bid-ready outputs. Trusted by more than 1,200 general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers, Attentive.ai allows customers to materially accelerate bid volume while reallocating internal resources toward higher-value activities such as pricing strategy and win-rate optimization.

To support the company’s next phase of growth, Attentive.ai appointed Drake Star as exclusive financial advisor to lead a structured capital raise. Drake Star provided end-to-end advisory support, including capital strategy, valuation, AI positioning, market and competitive framing, investor materials, and management preparation. The mandate was awarded following a competitive pitch process, reflecting Drake Star’s deep sector expertise in AI-driven vertical software and its strong relationships with leading global software investors.

The new capital enables Attentive.ai to accelerate the development of its AI models, expand product capabilities across the entire preconstruction lifecycle, and scale its platform into new geographic markets – further strengthening its position as a category-defining AI solution for the construction industry.

Spiketrap is a leading AI audience intelligence and contextualization platform used by global media and gaming companies to better understand, monetize, and engage their audiences. At the core of the platform is Clair AI, Spiketrap’s proprietary artificial intelligence engine, which enables real-time audience insight, media performance optimization, and advanced ad targeting across platforms, brands, and demand-side platforms. Clair AI is built on an industry-leading natural language processing (NLP) architecture, delivering queryless, real-time brand and content identification across more than ten major languages.

In response to inbound M&A interest, Spiketrap’s Board of Directors initiated a structured M&A process and appointed Drake Star as the exclusive financial advisor. Leveraging deep expertise in digital media and data infrastructure, Drake Star identified and engaged Reddit as a highly strategic buyer, recognizing the strong tech and product synergies between Spiketrap’s AI capabilities and Reddit’s global platform. Through a highly competitive process, Drake Star generated strong interest from multiple buyers and ultimately negotiated a highly attractive deal with Reddit. The transaction delivered an outstanding outcome for all stakeholders, offering a superior valuation, favorable transaction terms, and an attractive long-term incentive plan for Spiketrap’s management team.

The transaction was recognized as Digital Media & Marketing Deal of the Year at the M&A Atlas Awards, underscoring the strategic importance of AI-native audience intelligence platforms in the evolving digital media ecosystem.

With over 15 years of experience in AI-driven video creation, simpleshow serves a global enterprise customer base of more than 1,500 corporate clients, predominantly Fortune companies. Combining this expertise with D-ID’s pioneering real-time avatar technology will enable companies to deploy fully digital employees across a wide range of corporate functions.

Whether it’s a sales development representative, product expert, trainer, coach, or HR onboarding assistant – enterprises receive interactive, personalized avatars that can engage in two-way conversations, perform actions (agentic capabilities), answer questions in real-time, conduct role-playing, and deliver hyper-personalized content. The solution is scalable, multilingual, secure, and easy to integrate into existing workflows.

Drake Star supported simpleshow in systematically identifying and evaluating a broad set of potential strategic buyers, then thoroughly assessed each potential partner’s strengths, strategies, and synergy potential to determine the best fit. Our team prepared comprehensive marketing materials showcasing simpleshow’s growth, retention metrics, and market positioning. In addition, Drake Star developed a detailed financial synergy model with the buyer to quantify value creation opportunities and guide decision-making but also emphasizing advantages beyond financials – from product complementarity to market presence

The newly formed joint company is set to revolutionize enterprise communication through the power of conversational visual agents, immediately assuming a leading position in the Enterprise AI Video and Interactive Avatar markets.