BuiltWorlds Demo Day competitions each month, held both in-person & virtually, are supported by the BuiltWorlds Venture Forum Members - a cohort of 21 leading Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) & innovation teams in the AEC ecosystem (architecture, engineering, & construction).

The Venture Forum's commitment annually provides roughly 100 startups with the opportunity to pitch their venture to this strategically motivated group of investors & innovators, in addition to $250,000 in complimentary conference tickets to furnish these early-stage businesses with the industry exposure they are looking for.

BuiltWorlds would like to highlight those stand-out startups that won their respective Demo Competitions over the past 12 months. This is an opportunity for BuiltWorlds' members to watch the winning pitches below and vote on their favorite startup.

The winner of this virtual competition will be offered 2 free tickets to the Americas Summit in September where they will be presented with an award.

Venture Forum Sponsors:

1. BOSSO

The Bosso platform offers modern tools and solutions for hardware stores and home builders. These are designed to help them break the barriers hindering their growth as well as reduce their emissions and make their processes more sustainable. The company is on an urgent mission to solve the deepening African Housing crisis.

2. JUUNOO

JUUNOO was founded in 2017 and produces circular walls. This innovative clickable wall system allows spaces to be quickly partitioned, dismantled and reused again. JUUNOO walls can be installed 7 times faster than traditional walls, have numerous aesthetic finishes, and can be placed and repositioned countless times, making them sustainable.

3. SYMBIUM

Symbium has launched the Citizen’s Dashboard to streamline citizen-to-government interactions, starting with home improvement and decarbonization projects. The Citizen’s Dashboard enables users to browse information about a property, instantly perform compliance checks with building and planning codes, and perform transactions, e.g., apply for permits and rebates.

4. LULAFIT

Lulafit works with real estate teams and employers to turn office buildings into workplace destinations. Whether consulting on the design of the amenity suite or activating spaces with on-site operations, our hospitality-focused and wellness-forward approach takes the stress out of building amenities to support the future of work. The result is increased retention, higher engagement, and the opportunity to unlock meaningful revenue streams.

5. INVENTABLES

Inventables helps carpenters design, collaborate with homeowners, and build projects using our user-friendly SaaS and connected machines. Inventables offers both software and hardware tools to design and produce carpentry products made out of a variety of materials. Inventables products are designed to help individuals and small businesses do their own manufacturing cost-effectively.

6. URBAN MACHINE

Urban Machine is building machines leveraging the latest robotics and AI for salvaging lumber waste so it can be used to building again at a price competitive to virgin lumber. Salvaged lumber uses less than 1/10th the energy to produce compared to virgin lumber, making it the greenest building product and enabling a circular economy within construction.

7. BUILD SMARTR

Build Smartr Is poising itself to disrupt and innovate traditional home building by striving to press the advantage of steel-framed homes into the construction and manufacturing industries. They have focused primarily on the residential construction sector. Build Smartr aims to expand into commercial homes in the near future.

8. Shape diver

ShapeDiver helps individuals and businesses build applications based on parametric CAD models made with Rhinoceros 3D and Grasshopper. Clients use ShapeDiver's technology to create very cost-efficient 3D product configurators and internal collaboration tools that help them automate, modernize and improve their design, production, sales and marketing efforts.

9. FABRICA AI

Fabrica.AI builds automatic tile grouting robots and eventually automatic tiling robots. the robot is meant to automate the whole tile-grouting process. This robot will help significantly boost productivity & our clients return their investments in a year or two when purchasing our robots.

10. Lightyx

LightYX was founded in 2018 by a team of engineers and construction professionals. It came together in seeking to find a solution to an age-old problem in the business of constructing: human error in the implementation of BIM (3D plans), or blueprints, causing large and unnecessary costs, and delaying the finalization of projects.

11. CEPTION

Ception is a Jerusalem-based startup that develops an AI-based system leveraging lidar and other IoT sensors to reduce accidents and improves the productivity/profitability of heavy equipment at construction sites, industrial plants, quarries, and mines. The system is set to lower operation costs and contribute to sustainability in these demanding work environments.

2023 Demo Competition