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Berlin VC - construction
June 29, 2022

Building On It: Why A Berlin-Based VC Is Focused On Construction Tech

On the face of it, the average construction site hasn’t changed very much over the past twenty years or so. A casual passer-by who manages to catch a glimpse of what’s going on behind the surrounding fencing will probably see a lot of people going about their labor-intensive tasks, aided and abetted by familiar pieces of equipment, such as excavators, bulldozers and concrete mixers.

And that same passer-by might conclude that this is an industry that remains largely untroubled by the disruptions of the innovation economy. Building is building, after all. One brick on top of another.

And when analysts put together lists of the sectors that are sucking in VC cash, these days it’s likely to be topped by deep-tech, biotech, fintech and variations on the distributed ledger theme. Construction tech rarely features in the rankings.

Which is why I was keen to find out more about Foundamental, a Berlin-based investor that specializes in the construction sector, not just in Europe but also in the Americas and the Asia Pacific region.

And as General Partner, Adam Zobler acknowledges, this is an industry that – reputationally at least – is thought of as slow to change. He recalls the process of looking across a range of sectors for investment opportunities. “When my partner suggested construction, I giggled,” he says. “But when we began to peel back the layers of the union, we began to see there were investment opportunities.”

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