Unity Homes

Unity Home: Flexible off-site construction w/digital design​.

Unity Homes builds high-performance homes throughout the US Northeast. By precisely manufacturing building components in the controlled conditions of a shop and then assembling them rapidly on site, Unity is able to provide its clients with predictable quality, schedules, and costs. The resulting homes are comfortable, healthy, and energy efficient, with heating and cooling costs that are consistently low.

Q-Bot

Q-Bot: Robotics for improving on-site construction​.

Q-Bot develops smart tools, using robotics and AI, to construct, maintain and upgrade buildings. Their range of innovative technologies for the built environment includes a robotic underfloor insulation method, a ground-breaking digital twin solution, and a prototype robot applied wall insulation/render. 

They ensure that people have a cost-effective and non-disruptive way to make their homes warm, comfortable and energy-efficient, while at the same time bringing much-needed quality, accountability, and informed, data-based decisions to building management.   

In Deco

In Deco: Efficient office renovation via digital design​.

InDeco provides one-stop solution platform in office decoration with software developed in-house to manage the entire supply chain to improve productivity of office renovation.

Inovues

INOVUES: Revitalizing windows for better buildings.

INOVUES transforms the windows and glass facades of buildings into high-performing systems that incorporate the latest energy-saving and smart glass technologies without replacement or reglazing. Their patented insulating glass retrofit technology offers building owners a cost-effective and non-disruptive solution to upgrade the windows to save up to 40% on energy consumption, improve occupant thermal and acoustic comfort, and increase the value and sustainability of the building.

Okibo

Okibo: Robotic solutions for wall finishing​.

Okibo is developing intelligent, mobile, autonomous robots for finishing work in construction sites. The company’s first product is a robot for wall and ceiling finishing (painting and plastering) that will be used to simplify and lower costs of handling high level finishing, and is an answer to workforce scarcity.

Hyperframe

Hyperframe: Snap-together steel framing.

Hyperframe is designing and manufacturing a new class of building components that can be installed without tools or training. Their first product is a metal wall framing system for commercial buildings, which can be installed up to 15 times faster and 20% cheaper than traditional materials.

Factory_OS

Factory_OS: Changing the Way We Build

Factory_OS is reducing the cost and time of multifamily housing production by up to 40 percent through the utilization of offsite factory construction.
 

Sweeten

SWEETEN : Digital marketplace for home renovation​.

Sweeten operates a platform that connects home- and small business owners who have renovation needs with architects, interior designers and general contractors.

GetNinja

GetNinja: Digital marketplace for home services​.

GetNinjas is the largest service contracting platform in Brazil. They connect professionals from all over Brazil with people requesting service, meeting all types of needs with quality, ease and speed.  GetNinja completed a successful IPO in Q2 2021.

Vuxx

Vuxx: Last mile package delivery services for Industrial companies.

Vuxx is a Brazilian startup that Provides urban logistics platform intended to connect companies to cargo drivers. The company's platform offers instant ordering, vehicle allocation in minutes and real-time control, enabling companies to seamlessly carry fractional volumes of cargo to their customers.

Ossia

Ossia: Safe, wireless power delivery at distance​.

Ossia’s flagship technology is Cota Real Wireless Power, a patented, award-winning technology designed to deliver power over-the-air, without cables, charging pads, or line-of-sight.

Cota technology can deliver meaningful power to many devices at the same time, in motion, at a considerable distance, safely and efficiently.
 

Maxterial

Maxterial: Protective coating (hard-chrome replacement).
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Maxterial™ modifies the surface shape or texture of versatile materials, through a method that is very affordable and easy to introduce into the existing manufacturing process. The resulting microtextured materials dramatically reduce the contact area for the objects and droplets that contact the material surface.
 

Transaera

Transaera: New energy efficient AirCon approach.

Transaera is developing a new class of affordable, energy-efficient, sustainable cooling systems.​
Cooling is set to become the world’s single largest use of electricity in buildings by 2050. The majority of new demand will come from emerging economies with hot and humid climates and a growing middle-class.

As a result, air conditioning represents one of the largest risks to our climate. Residential use alone is set to account for an increase of more than 0.5 ⁰C in global surface temperature.

Ecodrop

Eco Drop: Digital App for construction waste collection .

Ecodrop is the most practical, economical and eco-responsible solution for the site waste of building tradesmen.

The company was born from a simple observation: craftsmen see the management of their waste as a complex and expensive problem, and find it difficult to pass the cost of their treatment on to the quotes of their private customers. Too much of this waste therefore ends up in our forests, or along our roads. While this waste could be as much recycled material, and reintegrated into the production of new products, or transformed into energy.

Ecomedes

Ecomedes: Sustainability-focused procurement platform.

Ecomedes is a cloud-based software as a service platform that leverages product data for their clients. Their platform is designed to simplify product selection and to grow brand value, sales and market share.

The Ecomedes team has over 20 yrs of experience working on sustainability issues for a wide range of industry leaders. Collaborating with architects, engineers, designers, contractors and manufacturers has provided them with a deep understanding of how project teams select sustainable solutions for their projects.

Tri’N’Collect

Tri’N’Collect: Recycling services for construction waste​.

Founded in 2019 in Nantes, Tri'n'Collect offers an innovative solution for sorting and collecting construction waste on site for better recycling and waste recovery.

This service facilitates the daily life of craftsmen (saving time, logistical comfort, less accident-prone worksites...) and accompanies construction and public works actors concerned with complying with regulations thanks to the sorting at source of 15 material flows.

Tri'n'Collect ensures perfect traceability by providing, at the end of the construction site, a certificate attesting to the recycling of 90% of the waste.

CarbiCrete

CarbiCrete: Cement-free, carbon-negative concrete

Carbicrete, originating from Canada, has developed a patented technology: cement-free concrete blocks that capture carbon dioxide using industrial by-products and carbon dioxide. Cement is replaced with steel slag (or "slag"), a metallurgical by-product that serves as a binder in precast concrete products.

ETF Partners

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations and family offices. ETF Partners creates value by investing in technology companies that make a difference – they call it “sustainability through innovation.”

Navitas Capital

Navitas Capital is a venture capital firm with a unique focus on investing in technology for the built environment whose mission is to identify, invest in and help build the next generation of defining companies in its space.

Phoenix Venture Partners

Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP) is the leading venture capital firm that invests in and partners with entrepreneurs to commercialize breakthrough materials science innovations. PVP’s team has a track record of founding, building and investing in successful materials science startups. The firm has two funds under management and has a unique investment strategy that is flexible and predicated on assisting entrepreneurs with customer and supply chain partnerships, business development as well as strategic and operational support. PVP collaborates with a select set of forward-looking global corporations on business development and innovation interests. PVP is based in Silicon Valley with satellite offices in Singapore and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Richard Capital

Richland Capital is a leading investment firm for emerging technology in China, focusing on investment in advanced materials, high-end manufacturing equipment, and digital technology.

Founded in 2011, Richland Capital is a first-line investment institution in industrial technology in China. With new materials as its main direction, it focuses not only on high-end equipment and digital technology, but also on pan-semiconductors, new energy vehicles, 5G, digital manufacturing, and other application markets. Since its establishment, Richland Capital has adhered to the strategy to drive investment with industry research and is good at discovering leading enterprises and hidden champions in the field of segmentation.