PropTech1 Ventures invests in Archilyse, the Swiss Army knife for real estate data analysis

Berlin, 13 November 2018 - PropTech1 Ventures, Germany's first venture capital fund focusing on European PropTech startups, is investing in the pre-series A financing round of Swiss PropTech startup Archilyse, the holistic data analysis and simulation platform for the entire real estate lifecycle. PropTech1 invests alongside Ringier Digital Ventures, Zürcher Kantonalbank, and PropTech business angel Stefan Heitmann, founder of MoneyPark and PriceHubble. Archilyse was recently voted one of the top 25 European startups at EXPO REAL. Archilyse is PropTech1's first investment in Switzerland's very mature PropTech ecosystem, where it intends to further expand its investment activities.

Archilyse measures data-based architectural characteristics of real estate properties and provides these for project developers, architects, and asset owners as a software as a service (SaaS) solution for optimizing a variety of processes in the real estate value chain. Through data enrichment, Archilyse's algorithms can portray this real estate data to a new extent and quality. To this end, floor plans of the respective properties are loaded onto the Archilyse Cloud, which are then converted into geo-referenced, three-dimensional BIM light models. This data enhancement optimizes and automates a wide range of use cases: The Archilyse software enables an automated compliance check regarding local building standards in the planning phase. Asset owners and managers can digitalize their portfolio and use data enrichment to determine more precise real estate values, for example the quality of the location and the view or the amount of sunshine, and thus competitive rental prices. Room planners, interior designers, and consultants have access to visualizations and room utilization analyses.

Nikolas Samios, Managing Partner of PropTech1 Ventures, comments on the investment decision, "In addition to the product, which raises enormous value creation potential without the need for time-consuming handling of data points, we were especially impressed by the founder Matthias Standfest. After his Ph.D., he has conducted extensive research on real estate data analysis at ETH Zurich and has established Archilyse using his findings. The result is a target-oriented application of big data in the real estate industry, which represents a major step in its long-dormant digitalization endeavor."
 

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About PropTech1 Ventures
PropTech1 Ventures (www.proptech1.ventures) is Germany's first venture capital fund focusing on European PropTech startups. After the real estate industry, the so-called "sleeping giant", has shied away from real innovation for decades, it now faces drastic change due to digitalization. This provides tremendous opportunities for PropTech startups focused on the optimization, digitization, and disruption of the real estate industry. The VC fund was co-founded by real estate entrepreneur Marius Marschall von Bieberstein (Managing Partner evoreal) and the Managing Partners of COOPERATIVA Venture Group, Nikolas Samios and Anja Rath, and is actively supported by the Venture Partners Andreas Wende (Managing Partner NAI apollo), Christian Vollman (CEO & founder nebenan.de and "Business Angel of the Year 2017"), Kristofer Fichtner (co-founder Thermondo), and Nicholas Neerpasch (CEO & co-founder of Doozer). The shareholders of the fund so far consist of 15 real estate companies and entrepreneurs from all areas of the value chain. In addition to venture capital, PropTech1 provides PropTech companies with expertise and market access from leading experts in the traditional real estate, PropTech, and venture capital areas. Through its analyst team, which covers the DACH, UK, and Nordics focus regions and monitors international trends, PropTech1 offers its fund investors access to what we consider to be the most interesting startups in the scene, proven venture capital method expertise, financial participation both through the fund as well as through direct co-investment opportunities, and the moderated exchange with other innovative real estate companies and the PropTech startups themselves.