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.

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Venture West 2024 Winner:

Swyft Cities is a mobility startup aiming to transform real estate and enable more vibrant, livable communities. The startup, which started at Google in 2019 out of a need for efficient transportation across campuses, was spun out in 2021 to deliver smart gondola systems to the public. The startup is the sole licensee of its Whoosh technology-a modular, sustainable and autonomous gondola.

(Startup Profiles are for Venture Forum members only)

Buildings conference 2024 Winner:

Heartland is a material science company that functionalizes natural fibers to reinforce plastic. Our proprietary additives can reduce the carbon footprint of plastic by more than 50%. Heartland’s team is leveraging natural fibers as a vehicle to solve a sustainability problem for the largest manufacturers on earth.

Paris summit 2024 Winner:

GScan is the world leader in cosmic-ray muon tomography and the driving force behind its applications in the field of 3D scanning and chemical composition analysis. Our mission is to bring the capability to scan anything and detect everything to infrastructure testing, security, and customs, pursuing further avenues in the future.

Construction tech 2024 Winner: