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🙌 It’s inspiring to see the progress made and the promising potential of the 12 selected startups! 🚀 Excited to see the results of the acceleration plans unfold over the next 6 months. 👀 Looking forward to witnessing the growth and achievements that will come as we approach the final demo days in January 2025

📢 MAQER Announcement! 📢 🏗️ Aggregate Industries UK, a proud member of the Holcim family, leads in recycling construction demolition waste and pioneers sustainable, low-carbon products and solutions. Did you know Aggregate Industries UK recently achieved the UK's first carbon-neutral road scheme? ♻️ With Holcim, they're driving industry-wide decarbonization, accelerating green growth through innovative solutions for a net-zero future. 🌟 We are thrilled to present our MAQER of the Month for June - Jon Collyer Director London Concrete at Aggregate Industries UK Industries (AIUK). Swipe through the carousel to explore: 🤝The importance of collaboration 🚀An exciting, innovative startup 🌙Jon’s moon shot ambition for Holcim Thank you for your exceptional insights, Jon Collyer! The Holcim MAQER Ventures team feels fortunate to have you among us and eagerly anticipates celebrating your future successes! 🏆 #BeaMaQer

Is there a market for ConstructionTech in Europe? How can startups scale in a fragmented market and what might be future exit opportunities in this vertical? The answer is a resounding YES! The construction industry in Europe is ripe for transformation, driven by the pressing needs for sustainability and solutions to the skilled labor shortage. Innovation is not just desired—it's essential. This was confirmed by the panel of strategic partners and investors attracting a large crowd of startups, investors and stakeholders along the construction value chain during the BuiltWorlds Summit Paris hosted by VINCI / Leonard. Having Holcim and other large multinationals along the construction value chain with well proven open innovation formats of international corporations such as Holcim MAQER Ventures help to validate innovative solutions and to scale internationally in a decentralized market. Get in touch with us if you want to maQe an impact! A big thank you to the Leonard team for uniting the ecosystem and to my panelist colleagues, Colleen Schutte, Thomas Le Diouron, Guillaume Bazouin and Louis COTTIN, for their insightful contributions. #ConstructionTech #Innovation #Sustainability #Startups #Investors #ConstructionIndustry

🤝We're proud to be working with such a forward-thinking team McomTech GmbH. 👀 Check out the great work they're doing with Holcim España after a successful project with Lafarge Holcim Nigeria. 🚀

🚀 We're thrilled to announce Holcim's investment in Travertine! 💡 Travertine's innovative tech upcycles industrial waste and captures CO2 to create valuable products for the fertilizer and #cement industries. 🌱 🤝 This represents a step forward in accelerating #decarbonization in the built industry. Exciting times ahead! 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gjGfCbxs #BeaMAQER #Startup #VentureCapital

♻️ Holcim has invested in Travertine to apply the startup’s proprietary circular technology to the decarbonization of cement. 🏭 By binding CO2 from direct air capture into advanced mineral components, Travertine’s technology permanently sequesters carbon. 🏗️ Holcim’s investment, through its corporate venture capital and open innovation unit Holcim MAQER Ventures, will support the scaling of this technology to decarbonize cement. 🔗 Read more about this exciting news here: https://lnkd.in/gGucYamA #BuildingProgress #DecarbonizingBuilding

💡 What a fantastic milestone Travertine! 🌱 🌍 Driving circularity by upcycling industrial waste into valuable products for the fertilizer and cement industries. 🚀 Thrilled to support such impactful innovation! 👀🔗  Check out our spotlight to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gjGfCbxs

“Don't shy away from corporates because of their size and complexity.” These were Andy Kollegger's opening remarks to yesterday’s SEF.Growth event with UBS, added by "Start-ups are our future, and investing in the future is certainly a good thing to do. Also, working with start-ups keeps us agile and young." 💪🏼 Johannes Tiefenthaler from neustark and Ueli Boetschi from Holcim presented their start-up-corporate Collaboration story and showed how they were ultimately able to achieve transparency and well-aligned goals by jointly developing a roadmap to 2030, which turned an initial "no" into a "yes". 🚀 Julia Ehrler from Holcim MAQER Ventures and Christian Maehr from UBS Switzerland joined the panel. These are our main takeaways: ➡️ 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆: Start-ups benefit from access to the networks and locations of international corporates. ➡️ 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: These accelerate the learning curve in product development. ➡️ 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: This reduces the risk of losing progress if one person leaves the company. ➡️ 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Corporates should have someone to help the start-up navigate the corporate environment. ➡️ 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀: Start-ups should clearly understand what they want to gain from the collaboration and communicate it clearly. A heartfelt thank you to all of the about 100 founders and young entrepreneurs who came together for these valuable insights and to UBS for hosting such a fantastic event! 💜 👉🏼 Read the full review here: https://lnkd.in/epUiJzBD Lukas Froesch | Jana Stucki | Christoph Bernhard | Alyssia Kugler

🌟 Highlights from Digital Construction Week 2024 🌟 🚀 We were thrilled to participate in the recent panel discussion at Digital Construction Week 2024, where Jon Collyer, Valentin Gutknecht, and Jonathan L. , moderated by Gemma Tuck, shared insights on the transformative power of #collaboration and #innovation towards achieving net-zero targets! 📹 Watch the video below for highlights on the keys to achieving a decarbonized future. 👇 Tune in and let us know your thoughts! #DCW2024 #decarbonization

We did it! 🎉 Heute eröffnen wir das #Innovationslabor Winterthur. Es beweist, dass #nachhaltigesBauen möglich ist, wenn wir Synergien nutzen und Neues wagen. Ein herzliches Dankeschön geht an unsere Partner für die inspirierende und bereichernde Zusammenarbeit! ZHAW Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen, Stadt Winterthur Tiefbauamt, CPC AG, Landolt + Co AG Bauunternehmung Mehr Informationen: https://lnkd.in/d_JRW7SW