The Venture Codex

Participated · Series B · Jun 2025

aedifion provides a smart, AI-powered cloud platform for real-time operational optimization of technical building systems. The platform helps building operators reduce energy use and portfolio CO2 emissions by up to 40 percent. Customers across Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK and the US use aedifion to manage nearly 500 buildings totaling over 5.8 million square meters. The company was spun out of RWTH Aachen University in 2017. aedifion has experienced rapid growth, with annual recurring revenue increasing by 100 percent year-on-year in 2024–2025. The product roadmap includes advanced AI-powered energy management features (load optimisation and demand-side management) and a generative AI "virtual building assistant" to streamline reporting, troubleshooting, and maintenance. aedifion offers a built environment cloud management platform that helps commercial building operators monitor, manage and reduce energy usage across their estate. The platform combines engineering and information technology expertise across a broad portfolio of solutions. The company plans to use the newly raised funds to further develop the platform. Led by founder and CEO Johannes Fütterer, aedifion was spun out of RWTH Aachen University’s Institute for Building Technology in 2017. It has participated in research initiatives funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection and collaborated with research institutions including FU Berlin, University of Stuttgart and Fraunhofer ISE. Aedifion has partnered with industry players such as Eon, Uniper and Züblin. aedifion operates a plug-and-play, AI-based cloud platform that autonomously analyses and optimises technical building operations to boost energy efficiency, reduce CO2 emissions and lower operating costs. The software is used across more than 1,000,000 m² and by over 50 customers, including Art-Invest Real Estate, Commerz Real and ECE. The company employs more than 30 people and focuses on applying its automation to both existing buildings and new construction to meet tightening ESG and regulatory requirements. aedifion plans to use fresh capital to continue development of its software and accelerate digital decarbonization of real-estate portfolios. The platform emphasises rapid deployment without additional hardware and claims payback within months for many customers. Founded in 2017 and based in Cologne, the firm positions itself as a specialist in building-efficiency software for non-residential properties. aedifion develops software that analyzes building operating costs to help property owners identify and reduce expenses. The platform is positioned as an IoT backbone for efficiency measures in both existing buildings and new projects, according to its investor. Its solution is already in use at customers including E.ON, ROM Technik and ZWP Ingenieur-AG. Management says the recent seed financing will allow the company to accelerate product development and expand sales. The company is led by founders Johannes Peter Fütterer and Felix Dorner. The financing is intended to support growth beyond 2020.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2022

Alcemy offers an AI-powered software platform that provides quality predictions across clinker production and at ready-mix concrete plants, delivering real-time insights along the entire value chain. Its algorithms enable producers to reduce clinker content step by step, with reported emissions reductions of up to 65 percent, while improving quality and lowering production costs. The company has demonstrated its solution in commercial settings, including a partnership with Spenner to produce a low-clinker, low-carbon cement mixture. Alcemy has also secured TITAN America as a customer and will deploy its quality-control software at a Titan cement plant in Florida. Founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, the startup plans to use new funding to continue research and development and to enter multiple new markets in 2024, including the United States. alcemy builds machine-learning and control-technology software that provides precise quality predictions for cement and concrete mixtures and their ingredients before shipping. The product enables manufacturers to counterbalance limestone and cement fluctuations, incorporate recycled ingredients safely, and produce higher-quality material at lower cost. The company says its solution can save up to 50% CO2 during production and that the startup and customers reduced 80,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2021. Founded in 2018 by Leopold Spenner and Dr. Robert Meyer, alcemy targets decarbonisation and regulatory compliance challenges in the cement and concrete industry. The startup will use the Series A proceeds to accelerate growth of its software development team and to build a sales team. alcemy positions its offering as a way to scale more sustainable cement and concrete production in a historically high-emission sector.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2021

Comgy, founded in 2017 by Ruben Haas, Lukas Krauter and Simon Stürtz, builds digital metering solutions for the housing and energy industries. Its offerings range from a full‑service solution for real estate managers to modular self‑service SaaS products for self-billers, energy service providers and other metering services. The company emphasizes continuous, easy-to-understand consumption feedback for tenants aimed at cutting heating costs by 10–30% and avoiding unnecessary billing shortfalls. Comgy reports managing over 60,000 residential and commercial units and employs about 60 people. It has received multiple investments and intends to use new growth capital to expand its reach in Germany and across the EU.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2019

Zenhomes operates a digital platform that connects landlords, tenants, and service providers through its core brand Vermietet.de, which provides rental management, asset management, and building maintenance services. The platform aims to increase transparency and reduce time-consuming, repetitive tasks and financial losses from mismanagement. Zenhomes envisions an ecosystem of connected, digital platforms that aggregate housing and bring together stakeholders across the real estate value chain. The company targets younger investors with modern assets and plans to position Vermietet.de as a leading aggregator of housing in Germany. Founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Zenhomes emphasizes a holistic, end-to-end proptech approach. Financially, the startup has raised a total of €19 million to date.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2018

WiredScore operates the WiredScore and SmartScore certification and education programs that rate digital connectivity and smart building technology. The company helps landlords, developers, and occupants assess and promote buildings’ digital infrastructure and smart capabilities. Its offerings include certification services and an Accredited Professionals Program that currently includes over 650 professionals from more than 275 companies. WiredScore has certified over 800 million square feet of commercial and residential space, impacting roughly 8 million people across 27 countries, and recently expanded into 13 new countries with a Singapore office. The company has entered the multifamily market with WiredScore Home to bring greater connectivity transparency to residential buildings. Over the next 24 months it plans to expand its geographic footprint across North America and APAC as it pursues a goal of enabling one billion people to live and work in connected, smart buildings over the next decade. WiredScore operates Wired Certification, an internationally recognized rating system that assesses the infrastructure, connectivity and technological capacity of commercial real estate buildings. The certification provides transparency to tenants and gives landlords insights to improve and future‑proof building connectivity. The company says it works with more than 450 landlords and developers and that nearly 450 million square feet of office space is committed to Wired Certification. According to the release, 1,700 buildings are committed to certification and roughly 4 million people work in Wired Certified buildings across North America and Europe. In the first three quarters of 2018 WiredScore expanded into eight new cities and recorded a 45% uptake in certified buildings. WiredScore launched Wired Certification in 2013 and, following recent investment activity, plans to expand geographically and vertically into new product and service areas supported by the Series A financing. WiredScore operates Wired Certification, a standard that evaluates and rates technological infrastructure and internet connectivity in commercial buildings. The company launched Wired Certification in 2013 in partnership with Mayor Bloomberg and the City of New York and has certified more than 1,000 buildings totaling over 350 million square feet globally. Iconic properties such as the Empire State Building, Chicago’s Willis Tower, and The Shard in London hold Wired Certification. Tenants use the Wired Certification seal to verify that buildings provide best-in-class connectivity infrastructure. WiredScore has expanded operations to the United Kingdom, France and Germany, and plans to enter Canada soon. The company says the new investment capitalizes WiredScore for continued rapid growth and market expansion.