The TOP Swiss Proptech Startups 2021

Proptech startups improve our lives with solutions that range from planning to building to managing buildings, workplaces, and homes. Discover which seven proptech startups impressed the TOP 100 Jury and the public the most in 2021, and find out how they make real-estate-related technologies, materials, processes more efficient and sustainable.

The TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award showcases the most promising Swiss startups. The annual ranking has become a benchmark in Switzerland’s startup ecosystem—and beyond. Every year, a panel of 100 leading investors and startup experts chooses the 100 most innovative and promising Swiss startups. Each jury member nominates 10 Swiss startups that are less than five years old and show the greatest commercial potential. The first-placed company gets 10 points, the second nine points, and so on. The individual rankings are compiled to generate the final TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award ranking. In parallel, the TOP 100 Public Voting allows everyone with a LinkedIn account can cast one vote and choose the most promising startup per vertical.
 
This year, the TOP 100 Jury and the public selected seven proptech startups to be among the TOP 100 Swiss Startups:



30. MOBBOT
MOBBOT’s system for the automated production of shotcrete elements produces them faster, cheaper, and more ecologically than with the traditional casting process—a MOBBOT system processes 1.5 tons of concrete in 15 minutes. The first beta system was delivered in autumn 2020, and now the Fribourg startup is working on making the system usable for recycled concrete as well.

32. PriceHubble
PriceHubble has set out to automate the valuation process in the real estate industry. The platform uses data—such as information on the location, development, and local prices—from many millions of properties in Europe and Asia. In addition, the system learns from the difference between the historical evaluation and the realized price. Customers include banks, estate agents, and asset and property managers in the DACH region, France, and Japan.

38. Archilyse
The Zurich-based proptech startup Archilyse combines floorplan data of buildings with 3D models of the environment and simulations of the field of vision and noise emissions. On this basis, it is possible to calculate exactly how high the rent that can probably be realized is, based on historical rental transactions. Customers include large property owners, such as Swiss Life and Migros.

93. ImmoZins
Swiss startups that start with seed funding of CHF 12.5 million are rare. But ImmoZins did it. Now, Louis-Philippe Müller and his team want to stir up the Swiss real estate market. They give private individuals the opportunity to invest in selected construction projects together with third parties—ImmoZins and other investors. The processing software documents the construction project from planning to commissioning.

95. Urbio
District heating networks and local power consumption communities turn residential areas into complex energy systems with growing optimization potential. EPFL spin-off Urbio is developing software that supports energy providers and energy consulting companies in the system planning for the generation and storage of energy, building renovations, or new distribution networks.

96. Oxara 
Materials scientist Gnanli Landrou developed a chemical mixture at ETH Zurich that turns excavated material into an environmentally friendly building material. After completing his doctorate, he applied for a patent for his innovation and has been building the spin-off Oxara since autumn 2018. The additives save construction companies landfill and transport costs and help to reduce the real estate industry’s carbon footprint.

99. Workspace2go
Workspace2go’s platform allows about 1,000 meeting and workshop rooms in 100 Swiss locations to be booked. The restrictions on contact and mobility of the past 18 months have hit the Zurich startup hard, but it has stuck to its growth plans, and a financing round concluded in March for a mid-six-digit amount has created the conditions for this.

Public Voting: ImmoZins
The Zurich-based startup was a double winner this year: ImmoZins was chosen as a TOP 100 Swiss Startup by both the expert jury and the public! For more information, see the description above.