Meet our 2025 PIC regional winners and European finalists below:

In-Country Winner – Germany: Green Fusion 

Green Fusion is driving the heat transition in the housing industry. Its cloud-platform and onsite GreenBox use AI to monitor, analyze, and control energy systems – from gas boilers to heat pumps and PV. The aim: to run systems efficiently, reduce CO2 emissions and help housing companies meet climate change targets.

• Find out more about Green Fusion here.
• View their pitch here.

In-Country Winner – Iberia (Spain & Portugal): Zenova

Zenova is a comprehensive energy management platform for real estate, offering online contracting, invoice centralization, and ERP-integrated reporting. We optimize assetsthrough energy efficiency actions, real-time monitoring, and automated compliance, ensuring cost savings and sustainability while helping companies meet regulatory requirements seamlessly.

• Find out more about Zenova here.
• View their pitch here.

In-Country Winner – the Nordics: Coat-ing

Coat-ing develops a lightweight, carbon-neutral exterior insulation system using cork and architectural textiles. Combining aesthetics, affordability, and performance, our patented solution accelerates sustainable building renovation. Backed by research institutes and industry leaders, coat-ing transforms façades into climate-responsive, customized surfaces—ready for scalable impact across European building markets.

• Find out more about Coat-ing here.
• View their pitch here.

In-Country Winner – United Kingdom and Ireland: AUAR

AUAR has developed a distributed robotic micro-factory network and tech stack for the automated construction of timber houses. AUAR its licenses low-cost systems to home-builders, enabling scalable, affordable, and sustainable timber housing. Its distributed system boosts margins, productivity, and energyefficiency while offering an innovative solution to industry challenges.

• Find out more about AUAR here.

In-Country Winner – France: aloHOMora coliving

aloHOMora transforms vacant office buildings into affordable and sustainable student coliving spaces. Because no student should have to give up their future due to a lack of housing.

• Find out more about aloHOMora here.
• View their pitch here.

In-Country Winner – Poland and Czech Republic: IZODOM

Izodom has developed unique construction technology, which due to double layer of insulation – inside and outside of the buildings, enables construction of buildings with radically low energy demand for both heating and cooling and enable utilisation of renewable electricity – making the building truly net 0.

• Find out more about IZODOM here.
• See their work here.
• View their pitch here.

In-Country Winner – Switzerland: vyzn

vyzn, an ETH spin-off, is an AI-powered SaaS platform that enables developers, engineers and architects to run multiple analyses in just a few clicks, based on BIM/3D models. The result: truly optimized projects that reach their full sustainable potential without sacrificing comfort or profitability.

• Find out more about vyzn here.
• View their pitch here.

In-Country Winner – Greece and Cyprus: 2025 Materials Limited

2050 Materials provides the construction industry with the largest structured database of environmental product data, accessible via platform and API, enabling faster, compliant,and cost-effective carbon assessments across design, procurement, and reporting workflows.

• Find out more about 2025 Materials here.
• View their pitch here.

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Optiml wins the PropTech Innovation Challenge European Final 2024

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has announced that Optiml, a provider of an AI-powered SaaS solution that empowers asset managers, investors,  and their consultancies decarbonize their existing building stock, is the overall winner of the inaugural PropTech Innovation Challenge (PIC) 2024.  The winner was revealed during the C Change Summit in Barcelona.

Read the press release here.