The green building design tools company was backed by Google's corporate venturing arm, along with venture capital firms.

US-based Flux, a Google-backed building and construction collaborative design software provider, has secured $8m in series A funding in a round led by venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson with participation from corporate venturing unit Google Ventures.

DFJ and Google were joined in the round by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Borealis Ventures.

Flux aims to promote sustainable design by providing design tools that help to reduce the environmental footprint of architecture and to enable the growing global demand…