Why we doubled down in 011h’s €25M Series-A to decarbonize European multi-family homes

Why we doubled down in 011h's €25M Series-A to decarbonize European multi-family homes

Wood TF just happened ? Homes. Since the early dawn of man, we have tried to perfect the four walls...

3D becomes FreeD - How Speckle unshackles the global 3D creator economy

The world runs on 3D 3D design. Somehow everyone seems to have an idea of what it is. But it’s...

The future of construction marketplaces

What a start into 2022. Today news broke that our portfolio company Tül had completed its most recent growth round:...

Construction Buy Now Pay Later - The Opportunity of the Decade?

BNPL: These 4 letters have dominated tech news the past few months. Headline after headline, funding round after funding round. ...

The difference between ConstructionTech and PropTech – finally explained

We were asked many times since we started Foundamental 2.5 years ago: What is the difference between ConstructionTech and PropTech?...

Why every epic ending boosts ConstructionTech

Today we all learnt that a major ConstructionTech firm is allegedly about to close shop. It started with much fanfare...

What's bigger this year? ConTech or PropTech? 4 insiders, 4 viewpoints.

We are four months into 2021. As the year-end holidays are approaching in big steps – time to do the...

Time to dust off: 5 reasons why 2021 is the best time to build a tech company in construction

We all know that manufacturing, e-commerce, hospitality and many other industries have faced dramatic changes in the past 20 years....

Why Iron Man is the solution for one of construction's biggest problems

What may sound like a catchy title, is our argument for the use of exoskeletons in the built world. Well,...

A tech orchestra is what construction needs

Don't we all share that romantic notion of a self-managed construction site, where planning and execution are seamlessly integrated and...

How not to build an airport - lessons from an infrastructure disaster made in Germany

We don’t want to blame former US president Ronald Reagan. Still, in his famous Berlin speech in 1987, he not...

The case for solving construction CO2

Why tackling construction emissions is one of the biggest levers we have 'Our house is on fire.' That was the...

Building Smarter, Brick by Brick

These cute backyard houses can be entirely 3D-printed

From Passion to Calling: Why Jeremy Brown Moved to Germany to Pursue Venture Capital

Why VC and data science is a love marriage

Would you believe anyone who says that data and digitisation doesn’t matter in their industry, because their domain is different?...

Free the software stack!

The Future of Blue-Collar Work

Most of us have been chilling , losing our mind, staying calm, operating as WFH professionals for the better part...

What the NFL Draft teaches us about decisions for CO2 reduction in construction

I am a die-hard NFL and college football fan. When I am in Europe, I get up at 1.45am on...

Construction & Workers’ Insurance: a triple threat scenario (lose-lose-lose)

We’ve become quite enamored with exoskeletons … if we’re being honest, ever since we saw Ripley dance toe-to-toe with Aliens...

CO2 in Construction / The Uniqueness of the European Housing Stock

The benefits of being a global investor is that we see trends and themes across markets but also become market insiders of...

CO2 in Construction / Not a plug & play game

On the route to a carbon neutral world, construction can’t be bypassed. Knowing that, we have to go down the...

SafeAI secures funding from strategic investors Obayashi and Foundamental for its autonomous heavy equipment solutions

Covid-19 vs. Construction

First of all, to our loyal subscribers: apologies for the clickbait title. I wish I could say it did not...

The Future of Construction Supply Chains

At a recent panel discussion, one of my colleagues was asked how about a new and improved construction industry could...

CO2 in construction / Highly relevant but often disregarded

Stating the obvious: we have been living on credit for decades. Since 1960 the per capita CO2 emissions have been...

10 steps how we discover patterns across the global ConstructionTech markets

If you follow us regularly, you know: we are investing globally in construction technology and building materials technology. Part of...

Bulldozing the digital chaos: Who will harvest vast data from Construction machinery?

Ready-mix concrete dispatching / Filling knowledge gaps

Multiple sources claim that ready-mixed concrete (RMC) is the second most used substance after water. While we did not validate...

Single family homes / Baking 1000 cookies with 1000 cookie-cutters

Marc Andreessen publicly claimed that “fully loaded construction costs [for end consumers] have doubled” since the year 2000. While the research...

Pre-construction automation / Taming the code with code

With Foundamental we are investing under a clear thesis for the construction sector: we believe in autonomous supply chains in AEC. But...

Automating construction / Why function follows form

In almost all discussions we had at Foundamental in 2019 with corporate partners and our newest LPs, the topic of robotics and...

3D construction printing to date / Chasing product-segment fit

Up until very recently, ConstructionTech has remained a new and surging space in the eyes of many horizontal VCs. At Foundamental we are recently...

Communication on construction sites / Supervisors are super-heroes

Since 1990, the real value added per construction labor hour has dropped by 23%. One fundamental reason is the opacity...

Drivers in ready-mix concrete

Within Foundamental we saw early that deep insights into construction workflows are critical for founders and co-investors. Hence, we decided to do...

Disputes in construction

In Foundamental we look at more than 70 deals of early-stage tech companies in the construction sector per month across Asia, North...

The Future of Autonomous Vehicles

The hype around autonomous vehicles (AVs) is real. And, frankly, it should be. With billions of dollars being poured into AVs...