Robert Peston

It's the kind of support and sustained support that the firm has previously only shown to the likes of Cognition AI or Anduril.

Now, NETIC has raised $23 million in a Series B funding round, aiming to equip businesses and contractors with advanced AI tools.

Melissa Tokmax here, NETIC's CEO.

Melissa, this is about Main Street.

This is about HVACs.

This is about contractors coming in, repairing.

Why target that part of the market?

Why doesn't some of the enterprise offerings thus far be fit for purpose for these small and medium-sized enterprises?

I did add a heat pump to my home.

It works, but it was a very difficult process.

It was delayed.

You answered the question, but yes.

My small house in Northern California is one end of the scale.

The other is data center build out.

And Jensen Wang was speaking about this at GTC in DC.

I'm going to read you some of his quote.

But in order for us to win that, the market, we need mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, plumbers, construction skill, craft labor.

We need mountains of them.

We need mountains of them.

And that's going to create lots of jobs.