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Photovoltaics, battery storage, and intelligent power procurement can turn commercial real estate into active participants in the energy transition. Moverloop develops integrated energy concepts for multi-tenant properties. Co-founder Valerie Laubsch explains in an interview why energy will become part of a property’s infrastructure in the future and how owners can directly benefit from the energy transition.

Location decisions are becoming increasingly complex: companies, investors and municipalities must recognize developments early to seize opportunities and avoid risks. Octoscreen analyzes millions of municipal documents and condenses the information into concrete recommendations for action. In the interview, CEO and co-founder Julian Freese explains how this becomes an early warning system for location and investment decisions.

Munich startup Arctis AI is raising fresh capital for its AI platform for managing construction contracts. The pre-seed round brings together notable investors from the European construction and tech sectors.

Vera Meinert spent a long time working at the intersection of data and artificial intelligence in large corporations. Since 2025, with Diafania and co-founders Michael Brunzel and Johannes Peschko, she wants to tap into untapped potential and transform the real estate industry. In this Women in Tech interview, she speaks openly about what the first time as a founder felt like, how financing is shaping up at the beginning, and what good tools are for her.

Munich-based startup Donexus secures 600,000 euros from prominent investors to make real estate management more efficient with AI agents.

Huge amounts of data lie dormant in the real estate industry – costing time, money, and opportunities. The Munich startup Diafania transforms unstructured information into insights and demonstrates how artificial intelligence can create real added value for technical property and facility management.

Working at 3,000 bar pressure and supersonic speed? You’d rather leave that to robots. Aiina Robotics develops an AI-powered solution and modular robots that relieve construction companies and provide greater safety and productivity on the construction site.

The real estate industry struggles with unstructured and erroneous building data. Alpha Prompt uses AI to standardize information and make it immediately usable – without rigid standards or system changes. Founder Sven Bauer explains why this is the game changer for the industry.

Lisa Oberaigner co-founded the proptech startup Emidat in 2023 together with Florian Fesch, which is committed to a more sustainable construction industry. After school and an apprenticeship in mechatronics near Salzburg, the native Austrian studied business administration with computer science in Munich and completed several internships in startups and the venture capital sector. She also spent two years abroad: including in Monterrey, Mexico, and Singapore. She completed her master’s thesis at the prestigious MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the USA.

The Munich-based proptech Emidat helps construction companies track and reduce the ecological footprint of building materials. This is intended to provide greater transparency regarding the environmental impact of building materials. With a software solution, building material manufacturers can quickly and cost-effectively create and distribute environmental data. The startup was founded in 2023 by Florian Fesch and Lisa Oberaigner. A recently announced funding round of 4 million euros is intended to support further growth.

Munich-based startup Predium develops ESG management solutions for the real estate and financial sectors. In a Series A round, the proptech raises €13 million. Norrsken VC, the investment fund of Klarna founder Niklas Adalberth, leads the round, and existing investors UVC Partners, b2venture, and Mutschler Ventures are also participating again.

The Munich proptech startup Building Radar automates the sales workflow in the construction industry with its software platform. In a financing round, the company has now secured €6.6 million. The investment is led by Socii Capital.