Top 10 sustainable construction startups

Founded in 2021, 2050 Materials is a digital platform for the AEC industry to explore, compare, and source sustainable building materials. The company provides a central platform for sustainable data enabling designers to save time and money at any project stage. By doing so, the company takes scattered and complex data and simplifies it to make decision-making easier. 

Website: 2050 Materials

Founded: 2021

CEO: Phanos Hadjikyriakou

Akanthas

Also founded in 2021, Akanthas is dedicated to helping the entire industrial value chain to better understand, anticipate, and optimise waste production, activity, and quality. Akanthas does this with the assistance of technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI). 

Akanthas’ easy-to-use solution provides users with a waste counter and software to optimise waste management to drive a more circular economy. Optical sensors coupled with AI algorithms collect and analyse raw data to deliver KPIs.

Website: Akanthas
Founded: 2021

CEO: Viviana Conreras

CAALA

Founded in 2016, CAALA is a platform solution to calculate, optimise, and communicate CO2 emissions in the real estate and construction industry. CAALA allows its users to calculate the emissions over the entire lifecycle of a building whether it’s new or existing. The solution also optimises potential and identifies tangible actions. 

Website: CAALA

Founded: 2016

CEO: Philipp Hollberg

Carbon BioCapture

Founded in 2019 and owned by women, Carbon BioCapture capitalises on Clean Energy ESB S.A.’s patented technology and pioneering work with flue gases by developing, building, deploying, and operating point-source carbon capture farms. These farms convert anthropogenic CO2 into microalgae biomass. 

The company boasts an 86% effectiveness at a 13% CO2 feed gas content. 

Website: Carbon BioCapture

Founded: 2019

CEO: Andrea Irarrazaval

Carbon Limit

Founded in 2020, Carbon Limit is a climate technology company that transforms concrete into a carbon capture and storage solution for global CO2 pollution. Carbon Limit’s Capturecretehas the ability to actively capture CO2 pollution directly from the air and store it permanently. 

With this technology, the construction industry can improve performance and generate valuable carbon credits. 

Website: Carbon Limit

Founded: 2020

CEO: Tim Sperry

CleanInnoGen Energy Solutions

Founded in 2020, CleanInnoGen Energy Solutions is dedicated to the commercialisation of clean hydrogen production technology. Led by leading scientists, CleanInnoGen Energy Solutions bridges the gap between knowledge and best practices to develop heat to hydrogen systems to form a decentralised and affordable green hydrogen network.

Website: CleanInnoGen Energy Solutions

Founded: 2020

CEO: Terry Kimmel

CoolBrook

Founded in 2011, CoolBrook provides revolutionary technology to replace the burning of fossil fuels with electrification that is powdered by clean and renewable energy. Electrifying the industry's most polluted industrial processes - including steel, iron, cement, and chemical production - the technology is capable of reducing 30% of total industrial emissions annually. 

Website: CoolBrook

Founded: 2011

CEO: Joonas Rauramo

Ecomedes

Founded in 2016, Ecomedes is a technology company providing climate solutions. The company is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of sustainable products for commercial buildings by making them easy to find, evaluate, and specify. 

The company offers one of the largest networks of commercial building designers, architects, builders, and building projects powder by intelligent and fresh impact-aware building products. 

Website: Ecomedes

Founded: 2016

CEO: Kathleen Egan

iNex Circular

Founded in 2014, iNex Circular is the first European platform that implements synergies in the circular economy to optimise waste and raw materials management. Answering the need for digitalisation in the sourcing of land, recycling units, and wastes, iNex Circular helps detect land, anticipate the related regulatory obligations, and monitor building waste. 

Website: iNex Circular

Founded: 2014

CEO: Eileen Gallagher

Vizcab

Founded in 2015, Vizcab measures and reduces the carbon impact of construction projects. Its mission is to help industry players manage the carbon emissions of projects by securing the achievement of RE 2020 thresholds from the sketch with its Explo solution and getting the most out of regulatory LCAs with its Eval solution. 

Vizcab is dedicated to supporting professionals through every stage of their projects. 

Website: Vizcab

Founded: 2015

CEO: Guillaume Lafont

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