France startup Vizcab secures €1.6 million to advance low-carbon construction technologies

With the support of Banque des Territoires and A/O PropTech, France construction tech startup Vizcab has completed a first round of financing that also includes the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield group.

The fundraising will enable the marketing acceleration of its SaaS solutions for building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to players involved in the shift to low-carbon construction.

Based on a technology developed by the EPFL building 2050 research group led by Thomas Jusselme, Vizcab is a SaaS platform that enables construction and real estate players to catalyse their carbon transition at the scale of the different phases of a project thanks to data science.

Guillaume Lafont, CEO, Vizcab: “This €1.6 million fundraiser will allow us to consolidate our technological progress, structure our teams but also move up a gear in terms of marketing and presence, first on the French market, then medium term on the European market”.

Vizcab aims to become the number one partner of real estate and construction players in their energy-carbon management challenges by choosing to make accessible and multiply the use of building life cycle analysis.

By combining the best of data science and operational support as close as possible to the field, Vizcab contributes every day to accelerating the carbon neutrality trajectory of construction players.

Nurturing decision-making at all stages of a real estate project’s life cycle

The Vizcab range is positioned where current eco-design tools are no longer sufficient to take the step towards generalised Life Cycle Assessment.

VizcabExplo: a decision support tool that enables project owners and their advisors to build secure and competitive carbon energy strategies, right from the upstream phases of real estate operations.

VizcabEval: LCA calculation software used by engineering firms and general contractors to optimise and validate the achievement of “regulatory” carbon levels.

VizcabDashboard: platform for capitalizing and reporting energy-carbon data from major real estate accounts, enabling them to manage and accelerate their carbon neutrality trajectory.

Géraldine Welter, deputy director of the Digital Transition department, Banque des Territoires: “Vizcab is a key investment for Banque des Territoires which illustrates the relevance of using innovative digital solutions to accelerate low carbon construction. We believe that this tool will be of great help to local authorities in their dialogue with developers around projects for urban planning regulations or for monitoring the energy and environmental performance of buildings. Our commitment alongside them is fully in line with the work of the Banque des Territoires in the service of more sustainable territories.”

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