Construction Venture by Bouygues Construction

Construction Venture by Bouygues Construction will be at Tech Tour GreenCity Investment Forum in March, with Stephanie Dalquist representing us at the on-site expert jury. The day is designed to support startups in Series A or later funding rounds by connecting them with investors and potential strategic partners.  Major themes of GreenCity are 🛣️ Urban Development and Management ⚡ Urban Energy 🌿 Sustainable Construction 🏗️ Built Environment Decarbonization 🚲 Mobility and Accessibility 🫁 Healthy Urban Neighborhoods. ⏱️ Startups, if you're Series A and you're European or working in European markets, you can still apply to pitch until February 2! See link in comments Thank you to Descartes Développement & Innovation for hosting

Being on the Construction Venture team means more than dealflow and due diligence. To realize the best outcomes for Bouygues Construction and the startups the company works with, we get out of the office to understand user needs. Our analyst Maureen BUCKET recently visited the open trench portion of a civil works project on the new Grand Paris Express.

Wishing a happy end of year to the ConTech ecosystem! 👷 Bouygues Construction Venture is proud to finish the year with a total of 4 transactions including 1 new investment (to be announced in 2025!) 🎁 and numerous contributions to the success of innovation at Bouygues Construction. 💡 Those successes are a result of partnering with portfolio companies, those in the pipeline and many more. From the Construction Venture team: Tim Aidan Halter Stephanie Dalquist Pierre Mustiere Viviane André Maureen BUCKET

Construction Venture by Bouygues Construction is a partner of the CRH Ventures Sustainable Building Materials Accelerator Program for pilot-ready startups worldwide (Seed to Series A/B). The Accelerator Program seeks to accelerate materials and applications with lower emissions, waste, energy use, or water use and / or circular, enabling the embedding of sustainability into reinventing the way our world is built.   The three focus areas: ♻️ Sustainable binder solutions 🏗️ New materials & applications 🪨 CO2 Mineralised materials   Benefits include: Market validation, Financial support, Pilots and access to the CRH Network. Limited time offer! Apply by December 16th. https://lnkd.in/eJtMtXEm    Also partnering with CRH Ventures: Arup , AXA XL, Dysruptek (The Haskell Company), and Climate Investment (CI)

These days every startup is looking for an added-value investor, and Construction Venture is definitely one of them! Bouygues Construction recently opened a "sandbox" construction site in suburban Paris. Scale One is open for, among other things, testing startup solutions. If you are looking for a strategic investor or partner, especially to enter the French market, this is a great entry point. See below for more information & contact info

🚀 Engaging with the ConTech Ecosystem: Highlights from an Exciting Week! This month, Tim Aidan Halter, Head of Construction Venture, and Viviane André, Associate for our North American scope, had the privilege of attending the Ventures East event organized by BuiltWorlds in Boston. This was an incredible opportunity to reconnect with the construction tech ecosystem, meet innovative startups, and explore the latest advancements in ConTech. 🎤  A special shoutout to Aidan, who took part as a judge for the Demo Day competition—a fantastic way to spotlight emerging talent and groundbreaking ideas. During the same week, we visited the Reframe Systems' factory and met with Nextera Robotics for an impressive robot demo. A big thank you to both teams for their warm welcome! We were delighted to see their cutting-edge innovations. But that’s not all! We attended Suffolk Technologies' Boost Demo Day, and Bouygues Group was an official partner. We were thrilled to collaborate with them on this startup accelerator program. The ConTech space is buzzing with activity, and we’re excited to continue fostering connections, supporting startups, and driving forward innovation in construction. #ConstructionTech #Innovation #Startups #ConTech #Collaboration

Tim Aidan Halter and Stephanie Dalquist just got back from Slush, with their ConTech-related takeaways and lots of salmiakki: ☺️ DAY -1: Human experience matters! Remote control or automated operation of equipment may affect productivity, but it also means an operator gets to have lunch with the crew.  🌊 DAY 0: With CO2 assessments becoming "business as usual" with the reform of Finland's building act, the new focus is on biodiversity, climate change adaptation and the circular economy. Anecdotally, local companies in circular economy for the built environment say business is way up.  🪵DAY 1: Finland is gifted with loads of natural resources for construction, including wood.  Carbon-footprint-friendly, right?  However, until recently, waste has been burned, and no local recycling centers exist. Until the circular economy reaches Waste wood at scale, a lot of that material is exported for recycling elsewhere.  🔭 DAY 2: Investors ought to be taking more advantage of science-based future foresight, ("prospective" in French). A good foresight framework can identify emerging trends in the operational environment across geography and time. Indeed, Construction Venture is fortunate to be sitting right next to the foresight team of Bouygues Construction, led by Virginie Alonzi Glad to have shared the experience with other Bouygues Group colleagues including Gustavo Boriolo, Julien RIPOCHE, and Diego S. ALEGRE VEGA (EQUANS). Thanks for the takeaways, inspired by Alon Magal (Skyline Cockpit), Teemu Lehtinen (KIRAHub), Christopher Mills (Kiilto Ventures) and Arash Hajikhani (VTT)

❄ Slush is coming up soon! Stephanie Dalquist will be there to represent Construction Venture by Bouygues Construction. Get in touch via LinkedIn or the Slush matchmaking tool. ✉  

🤝 Construction Venture by Bouygues Construction is excited to collaborate with CRH Ventures as a partner in the Sustainable Building Materials Accelerator program.     🌿🏗 The development and adoption of sustainable building materials is essential to advancing sustainability along the entire value chain. As part of that ecosystem, they play a key role in the strategy and climate objectives of our parent company, Bouygues Construction.   🗓 Applications are only open until December 16, 2024 https://lnkd.in/eJtMtXEm

Now you see us, Now you... still see us! #ConTech is increasingly active, and so is Construction Venture by Bouygues Construction. This week Stephanie will be on Tech Tour Sustainable Construction 2024, driving home the importance of the sustainability transformation in planning, financing, constructing and renovating building. There are 5 speakers and 30 startups pitching, elaborated on the Tech Tour post (linked below)