Litehaus, a startup headquartered in Portugal leveraging 3D printing expertise for development, has just lately raised a pre-seed spherical of 1.5 million euros with the participation of Explorer Investments (one of many largest Portuguese funding funds), Cornerstone VC, Pascal Levy-Garboua, and the Claster Group.
This funding will likely be used to speed up the event of its platform that helps land and property homeowners construct 30% cheaper, 40% quicker, and 60% extra sustainably (in comparison with conventional processes), strengthen the group within the areas of product, advertising and marketing and operations, and consolidate its place as one of many quickest rising development expertise startups in Europe.
Based in 2024 by Simi and Thibault Launay, Litehaus was born out of the couple’s private expertise: constructing their very own home in Portugal, marked by 14 months of delays, 20% finances will increase, and the troublesome coordination of 10 contractors. In the present day, the corporate is creating a brand new paradigm in residential development with a technological platform that connects all elements of the method – planning, professionals, execution, and supply – in a single digital and scalable resolution.
“Portugal’s housing scarcity has triggered a disaster, driving up the price of dwelling as house possession turns into more and more unaffordable. Once I met Thibault and Simi, I used to be impressed by their imaginative and prescient: to make the method of constructing a home so simple as shopping for one. Litehaus combines transparency, sustainability, and belief in a sector that urgently wants to alter. We’re excited to assist this mission!” mentioned Rodney Appiah, Managing Companion of Cornerstone VC.
The Litehaus platform capabilities as an working system for house development. It permits shoppers to plan, finances, and visualize their tasks (with out prior expertise), connects tasks to a various community of architects, contractors, and designers, coordinates groups, deadlines, and prices in real-time, and ensures complete visibility, fewer delays, and undesirable surprises.
“We don’t construct homes – we construct the ecosystem and infrastructure that make constructing homes scalable,” mentioned Thibault Launay, Co-founder of Litehaus.
This mannequin is already bearing fruit: Litehaus has signed 17 contracts with B2C shoppers price 4 million euros and eight MOUs with different actual property builders, with a development potential of over 296 million euros. The startup has already helped construct two homes and can assist the development of fifteen extra.
“I’ve at all times needed to construct companies that change folks’s lives. Making inexpensive housing obtainable at scale isn’t only a market alternative – it’s one of the crucial important methods to create an actual and lasting affect,” mentioned Simi Launay, Co-founder of Litehaus.
Litehaus additionally operates in Spain, Estonia, and the USA, with a spotlight primarily on Portugal and Spain. The corporate distinguishes itself from different options in the marketplace by combining an asset-light and full-stack method, which integrates the development part by way of 3D printing.
