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.
 

Inkbit

Inkbit: High-precision 3D printing driven by AI and computer vision.

Inkbit is the developer of a multi-material jetting platform designed to build production-ready additive manufacturing systems. The company's platform integrates computer vision systems and artificial intelligence technologies to deliver high reliability, throughput, accuracy and material quality for production parts.

AMT

AMT: Digital Post-Production Hardware Systems for Additive 2.0 Manufacturing.

It’s a UK-based startup providing 3D printing post-processing technologies. AMT automates the manual finishing steps for 3D printed thermoplastic parts that are: unpacking, depowdering, suface finishing (smoothing) and coloring.

AMT and Saint-Gobain Surface Solutions form a partnership to provide surface finishing solutions together.

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: has developed a process for producing carbon-neutral precast concrete.

The Canadian startup replaces cement in concrete with industrial by-products and hardens it with carbon dioxide, avoiding the GHG emissions associated with cement production, while permanently sequestering CO2 in the resulting concrete products. For every ton of concrete produced by this process, 150 kg of CO2 is reduced/eliminated.

Sakowin

SAKOWIN : is accelerating the energy transition through the production of CO2-free low-cost sustainable hydrogen.

Sakowin is a French company that is at the forefront of the energy transition to Sustainable Hydrogen. Sakowin manufactures equipment to produce hydrogen and solid carbon with zero CO2 emission, from gas. Initially started producing H2 through water electrolysis. Currently produces Sustainable Hydrogen with a high energy efficiency at low-cost using biomethane or natural gas as feedstock. The innovative technology’s main benefits are zero CO2 emissions, H2 produced on-site and on-demand.

Continuous Composite

Continuous Composite: 3D printing composites using continuous fibers.

Continuous Composite is a developer of Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D®) process combining high performance continuous fiber with rapid curing thermoset resins to enable affordable manufacturing of complex composite structure.

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.