Construction Startup Competition 2023 winners revealed

The winners of the Cemex Ventures Construction Startup Competition 2023 have been announced.

Eight startups were announced as this year’s winners, each corresponding to one of the competition’s four vertical segments: Green Construction, Enhanced Productivity, Construction Supply Chain and Future of Construction.

The eight finalists will go on to compete for the gold, silver, and bronze medals at Pitch Day 2023, held at Trimble’s Dimensions User Conference on November 7, 2023, in Las Vegas, US. 

Since its start in 2017, the competition has received almost 3,000 applications from over 80 countries, and participating startups have gone on to create notable change in the construction industry.

Winners of the Cemex Ventures Construction Startup Competition 2023 include:

■ Civ Robotics (US) builds autonomous layout systems with an emphasis on solar farm and road projects that require thousands of coordinates a day with a press of a button.

■ Construex (Ecuador) digitizes construction suppliers across Latin America, offering software tools to suppliers to help them manage their digital presence, find and manage clients, and grow their businesses with data.

■ Firstplanit (UK) provides designers, developers, and manufacturers with insights on the environmental, social, health, and monetary benefits of building materials and products through a holistic, transparent, data-driven, user-friendly digital platform.

■ Frontline (Singapore) is a construction planning simulation and optimization platform that has developed proprietary optimization algorithms enabling construction companies, operators, and contractors to quickly identify best-in-class construction plans with optimal activity sequencing and resource allocation.

■ FYLD (UK) is an AI-driven work execution platform bringing real-time remote site visibility to construction operations. Workers use the FYLD platform to record work and safety-related activities using unstructured data (video, audio, text) that FYLD’s AI analyses in real time to enable remote managers to make better operating decisions.

■ RodRadar (Israel) offers Live Dig Radar (LDR), which automatically detects underground utility infrastructure in real-time, during excavation, without the need for expert analysis, improving construction safety and productivity.

■ sensmore (Germany) is an AI Automation 2.0 software company leveraging novel radar technology and artificial intelligence to solve automation challenges for heavy machinery in even the most severe conditions in contrast to vision-based systems.

■ sensmore (France) is the leading 360° Building Carbon Platform, focusing on the embodied carbon impact of materials and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), offering comprehensive solutions from carbon budgeting to regulatory accounting and reporting.