Barcelona-based development know-how firm 011h has raised €20 million in a brand new funding spherical led by Ship2B Ventures and CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación). Current traders, together with Seaya Ventures, Breega Enterprise II, and the French fund Sicar, additionally took half, alongside trade entrepreneurs comparable to Alex Valls (Social Level, Exoticca), José Ojeda (GFG, Lyst), and Juan Velayos (previously of Renta Corporación and Neinor Houses).
The funding marks the ultimate deliberate spherical earlier than 011h shifts its focus towards increasing its recurring enterprise mannequin. Based in 2020 by Lucas Carné and José Manuel Villanueva — the entrepreneurs behind style e-commerce platform Privalia — together with Josep Barberá and Carlos Llibre, 011h is reimagining how buildings are designed and constructed by way of a completely digital, sustainable, and industrialised method.
The corporate specialises in modular buildings that use sustainable supplies comparable to engineered wooden, mild steel constructions, and prefabricated concrete. Its platform connects design, manufacturing, and development processes into one digital system, considerably decreasing waste, emissions, and supply instances whereas rising transparency throughout the provision chain.
011h at the moment has housing developments price €50 million underneath development throughout Spain, together with tasks with AEDAS Houses, Culmia, and Renta Corporación. It has additionally secured commitments for an extra €100 million in tasks for 2026.
“Conventional development stays one of many world’s most inefficient industries,” stated co-founder Lucas Carné. “Our mission is to show that constructing might be quicker, cleaner, and extra sustainable by integrating know-how, modularity, and digital design. This newest funding spherical brings us nearer to scaling that imaginative and prescient.”
With tasks comparable to Habitat Hospitalet (Barcelona), Fioresta (Alicante), and Casernes (Barcelona) already accomplished, and others like Distrito Z (Málaga) and Mar de Calonge (Girona) underway, 011h expects to ship greater than 600 new houses by 2027.
Robin Weninger, Accomplice at Ship2B Ventures, commented: “011h represents the way forward for sustainable development — one which merges environmental duty with digital effectivity. We’re proud to assist an organization that’s redefining how cities are constructed for future generations.”
The corporate’s built-in, low-carbon mannequin positions it as one in every of Europe’s most promising gamers in sustainable actual property and industrialised development.
