The Cologne-based PropTech company aedifion draws a positive balance for the 2025 financial year, achieving sales growth of 86 percent compared to the previous year, thus continuing its growth course. With 18 new customers, the total number of customers rose to 113 companies as of January 1, 2026. The number of buildings under management grew by 150, so that aedifion now manages a total of 582 commercially used properties with an area of around 9.6 million square meters in Germany and ten other countries.
The customer portfolio includes fund and asset managers such as BNP Paribas REIM, AEW Invest and Art-Invest Real Estate, facility and property managers such as Strabag Property and Facility Services, building automation equipment suppliers (OEMs) such as Phoenix Contact, project developers such as MOMENI and corporate real estate departments of international companies, including Henkel.
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fütterer, CEO of aedifion GmbH, comments: “Building operations are on the verge of a fundamental change: Digitalization, AI-supported platform solutions and, in particular, generative AI are increasingly becoming a prerequisite for economical, legally compliant and resilient real estate operations. The fact that we were able to grow significantly again in 2025 shows how great this demand for integrated, data-based solutions is in the market.”
Sustainability and efficiency in building operation
By using the aedifion platform, around 5,600 tons of CO₂ could be saved in 2025. This corresponds to the CO₂ emissions caused by an average car with a combustion engine over around 29 million kilometers. The savings achieved result primarily from data-based optimization of technical building operation, reduced energy consumption and more efficient maintenance strategies.
The company also continued to grow in terms of personnel: As of December 31, 2025, aedifion employed 102 people (end of 2024: 90). An expansion to around 140 employees is planned for the end of 2026, and the team is expected to grow to around 186 people by the end of 2027.
Product innovations and AI as growth drivers
In 2025, aedifion successfully launched several innovations on the market. With aedifion.dynamics, the company expanded its portfolio to include a solution for AI-supported electricity cost optimization. The platform reduces load peaks through demand side management and enables the optimal use of dynamic electricity tariffs through intelligent consumption control. In addition, it maximises the use of its own electricity, for example from photovoltaic systems, and uses the buildings themselves as thermal energy storage systems in addition to the existing storage options. The solution has already been successfully implemented in projects such as KATHARINENKAI in Hamburg and Quartermile 3 in Edinburgh. For 2026, aedifion plans to expand to include grid fee optimization, load smoothing for district heating and the integration of large e-mobility infrastructures, among other things.
Another milestone was the launch of the AI Assistant, which is based on generative AI, in the fall. The intelligent building assistant receives requests and instructions in natural language via chat and responds with precise answers and recommendations for action. For the first time, it bundles operating data, project knowledge, technical documents and external information in one system and supports technical operators and asset managers in information search, analysis and decision-making. In 2026, the AI Assistant will be gradually rolled out and further developed for all customers.
aedifion received several awards for its innovations in 2025, including FOCUS Business Growth Champion 2026, the immobilienmanager Award in the “Digitalization” category together with BNP Paribas REIM, and the best digital solution partner in the ESG report by Bell Management Consultants.
Series B financing creates basis for international expansion
A key milestone in the 2025 financial year was the successful completion of a Series B financing round of around EUR 17 million. The round was led by European growth investor Eurazeo as lead investor. Existing investor Drees & Sommer significantly increased its commitment, and other investors such as World Fund, the Hopp Family Office, BitStone Capital as well as Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures, MOMENI Ventures, Bauwens Capital and LARTIS participated again.
In addition to the technological development of its AI-based cloud platform, aedifion is using the capital to drive forward its European expansion. The company has already doubled the number of its international projects in 2025. With the successful market entry in France and Great Britain, a further foundation stone was laid for European market leadership. In addition to Germany, aedifion is now active in France, Great Britain, Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.
“Our developments show that digitization and AI in existing buildings have long since ceased to be a topic of the future, but create concrete economic benefits. We firmly believe that intelligent, data-based building operations can also have an impact across national borders. Our goal is to scale this impact across Europe and establish aedifion as a leading digital solution partner for building operations in Europe,” Johannes Fütterer concludes.
