Portugal-based startup Litehaus has secured €1.46 million in pre-seed funding to scale its 3D printing-enabled homebuilding platform. The corporate goals to decrease building prices, scale back construct occasions, and enhance sustainability within the residential sector.
The spherical included participation from Explorer Investments—considered one of Portugal’s largest funding funds—UK-based Cornerstone VC, enterprise capital associate Pascal Levy-Garboua, and the Luxembourgish household workplace Claster Group. The capital will probably be used to speed up the event of Litehaus’s platform, which permits land and property homeowners to construct properties 30% cheaper, 40% quicker, and 60% extra sustainably in comparison with conventional strategies. The corporate additionally plans to strengthen its product, advertising and marketing, and operations groups, and additional set up itself as a key participant in Europe’s building tech ecosystem.
“Portugal’s housing scarcity has triggered a disaster, driving up the price of dwelling as dwelling possession turns into more and more unaffordable. After 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!” stated Rodney Appiah, Managing Companion of Cornerstone VC.
Founders and Firm Background
Litehaus was based in 2024 by Simi and Thibault Launay, drawing from their very own expertise constructing a house in Portugal. The method concerned 14 months of delays, a 20% funds overrun, and the coordination of ten completely different contractors. That have led the couple to design a platform that streamlines and digitizes the whole dwelling building workflow.
Immediately, the corporate affords a technological platform that connects all phases of the development course of—from planning to execution and supply—right into a single, scalable digital resolution.
The Litehaus platform capabilities as a building working system. It permits customers to plan, funds, and visualize their tasks with no need prior experience. It additionally connects purchasers with a vetted community of architects, designers, and contractors, and manages timelines, groups, and prices in real-time to offer larger transparency and decrease delays or sudden points.
“We don’t construct homes – we construct the ecosystem and infrastructure that make constructing homes scalable,” stated Thibault Launay, Co-founder of Litehaus.
Market Adoption and Pipeline
Litehaus’s mannequin is already being applied. The corporate has signed 17 contracts with B2C purchasers totaling €4 million, and has entered into 8 memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with actual property builders, representing a possible building pipeline valued at over €296 million.
Thus far, Litehaus has supported the development of two properties and is concerned within the improvement of fifteen further tasks.
“I’ve all the time wished to construct companies that change folks’s lives. Making reasonably priced housing out there at scale isn’t only a market alternative – it’s one of the vital important methods to create an actual and lasting influence,” stated Simi Launay, Co-founder of Litehaus.
Whereas headquartered in Portugal, Litehaus can also be lively in Spain, Estonia, and the US, with a main concentrate on the Iberian Peninsula.
3D Printed Houses Across the World
Litehaus’s traction displays a broader shift within the building sector, as 3D printing features momentum worldwide. In 2024, Portuguese firm Havelar introduced the completion of what it claims as Portugal’s first 3D printed home. Located throughout the Larger Porto neighborhood, the 80m2 two-bedroom home was produced inside 18 hours utilizing the BOD2 printer by COBOD. This swift printing course of highlights the effectivity and velocity attribute of 3D printing know-how within the building sector. This 3D printed home was constructed with help from architects Aires Mateus, Glória Cabral, and Francis Kéré.
Equally, automated building 3D printing firm VeroTouch accomplished Colorado’s first 3D printed properties in Buena Vista, supported by as much as $618,000 from the state’s Revolutionary Housing Incentive Program (IHIP).
The 1,100-square-foot properties are a part of the VeroVistas challenge, constructed utilizing a proprietary 3D printing system designed for vitality effectivity, sturdiness, and hearth resistance. Partnering with South Principal, VeroTouch plans a 31-home improvement in Cleora to check scalability, automation, and materials effectivity. The challenge goals to deal with housing shortages and improve building effectivity via additive manufacturing.
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