Led · Equity · Oct 2024

Founded in 2019 in Vienna by Delivery Hero co-founder Markus Fuhrmann and former Zalando CIO Philipp Erler, Gropyus applies advanced robotics and end-to-end digital planning to industrialise multistory housing construction. Its Richen factory employs 50 KUKA robots and achieves 86% automation, producing timber-hybrid walls and ceilings in about 16 minutes for modular on-site assembly. The approach shortens construction timelines by 30-50 %, lowers costs and carbon emissions, and allows high customisation of apartment layouts. Gropyus aims to scale output to 3,500 apartments, or roughly 250,000 m² of living space, per year by moving from one to three production shifts. The company is currently piloting a 68-unit klimaaktiv GOLD project in Salzburg with Rhomberg Bau and plans to run multiple projects in parallel across the EU. Financially, equity raised now exceeds €400 million, supplemented by €40 million in European Investment Bank (EIB) venture debt, with profitability targeted for 2027-28.