ATechX, Aroundtown's innovation and venture platform, together with its international partner network, achieves an asset base of over €400 billion and aggregated venture capital funding of over €1.5 billion. Since its launch in 2024, ATechX has quickly established itself as a globally relevant platform for PropTech innovations. Today, the partner network is active in Europe, North and South America and Asia and combines a large and diverse real estate portfolio. Across various asset classes, including residential, office, hotel, retail and logistics, a strong foundation is emerging for the development and scaling of new PropTech innovations. With the addition of Apleona and Zacua Ventures, this global network will now be further strengthened in a targeted manner.
The Apleona Group, one of Europe's leading facility management providers and market leader in Germany, is contributing extensive operational expertise to its partner network. With its focus on long-term customer relationships and efficient, sustainable building operations, Apleona is strengthening its ability to implement and scale PropTech innovations directly during the ongoing operation of real estate. In this way, the company is making a significant contribution to the practical implementation of new technologies in existing buildings.
With Zacua Ventures, ATechX has gained an international venture capital investor specializing in the built environment. The global company with locations in San Francisco, New York, Singapore, Madrid and Mexico City brings extensive expertise in the areas of ESG, construction innovation and technology-driven efficiency improvement. In particular, Zacua Ventures strengthens the investment perspective within the network and supports the development and scaling of sustainable PropTech innovations worldwide.
"The successful scaling of ATechX since its launch in 2024 shows the great need for practical innovations in the real estate industry. With our expanded partner network, we offer young companies direct access to global market players and real real estate portfolios with PropTech and AI solutions," says Barak Bar-Hen, CEO at Aroundtown.
"The partnership with ATechX enables us to gain access to new ideas and innovations at an early stage of development and thus the opportunity to integrate them into the operational operation of real estate in a targeted manner and thus create added value for owners and users alike," says Dr. Pascal Engel, CTO at Apleona.
"ATechX combines access to high-quality real estate portfolios with a strong international partner network. For us, this is an ideal platform to drive innovation in the built environment globally and scale sustainable solutions," says Mauricio Weiss, CEO at Zacua Ventures.
With a view to the upcoming fourth cohort, ATechX is once again opening up the opportunity for start-ups to develop, test and scale their PropTech innovations directly in the international real estate portfolio. ATechX's fundamental approach is to provide immediate access to real assets and partner portfolios, where innovations are validated under real market conditions and further developed together with leading industry players.
