Smart Solutions for a sustainable value chain
The PropTech Innovation Award goes into the next round – and this year some huge innovations are waiting for applicants, participants and guests! We are once again looking for the best innovations in real estate and technology.
Winners will get an investment of the GERMANTECH Innovation Funds of up to 100.000 EUR and access to the new platform of experts from all areas of the real estate value chain!
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About this year’s Award
Union Investment, Townscape and GERMANTECH are organizing the international PropTech Innovation Award for the sixth time at the PropTech Innovation Summit taking place on 27th September 2022.
In the last few years the PropTech Innovation Summit has created an international network that allows young tech companies to access and invigorate the real estate innovation sector. For many non-German startups, applying to the PropTech Innovation Award with its strong integrated network and professional audience, is key to entering the German real estate market.
This year, the circle of organizers will be expanded to include the Berlin-based project developer Townscape. The additional partner expands the PropTech innovation ecosystem and offers PropTechs further contacts and access to additional areas of the real estate value chain.
For 2022 we are not only looking for the most creative and innovative solutions, but also for the most sustainable that meets today’s ESG challenges in the real estate sector. Please showcase your product to how it addresses the challenges and trends of the sustainable real estate value chain.
Deadline is the 31st May! Apply to one of the three categories below that best identifies with your solution:
Smart Planning
We look for solutions that support processes that take place BEFORE the actual construction. Here, we look for concepts that help to plan greener, smarter and more resource-efficient, while taking social aspects into account!
- Integrated and smart planning tools
- 3D modeling
- Building information modeling
- Tendering platforms & accelerated approval procedures
- Access to local resources
- Planning Processes
- Site analysis
- Structural inventory
- Scenario analysis e.g. for investment processes
- Innovative location usage concepts
- And other ideas fitting this part of the value chain
Sustainable (Re)Construction & Building
We will keep building. And we know that we will have to convert existing buildings to make them more sustainable and future proof. Do you support these upcoming challenges? Then this category is for you!
- Taxonomy / ESG
- Modular Construction
- Sustainable & minimal invasive reconstruction
- Minimal efforts maximal results
- Construction Robots
- Renewable / Recyclable Materials & Insulation Systems
- Risk management tools
- Digital support for circular buildings
- Innovative energy concepts
- Construction site planning & management software
- Circular Economy of building materials / debris platforms
- And other ideas fitting this part of the value chain
Responsible Use & Management
The usage of buildings changed – and will change even more in the future. To make letting, renting, managing, using and living more sustainable we are looking for your solutions in this category!
- Smart facility & office management
- Investment management
- Digital asset management
- Sensoric solutions
- Letting tools
- Community tools
- AI & Big Data in Real Estate Management
- Personal needs, health, habits & environmental factors
- Smart process optimization
- Environmental & social impact of buildings
- And other ideas fitting this part of the value chain
The Prizes
The winners will get an investment of up to:
100.000 EUR
by the new GERMANTECH Innovation Funds.
What is special about the funds?
The investors of the funds are all experts of the PropTech Innovation ecosystem. Thus the winners do not only get a valuable investment but also access to experts, mentors and innovative formats to accelerate their businesses. The PropTech Innovation ecosystem is growing strong and you can be a part of it.
Apply to the PropTech Innovation Award until the 31 May!
Additionally, all applicants receive a 10% discount code from our partner St. Oberholz on their first 6 months renting an office at the PropTech House Berlin!
PropTech Innovation Summit 2022
We are more than happy to welcome you back to one of Berlin’s most beautiful event locations. We will be able to meet, talk and make connections in real life again – let’s celebrate the achievements of the last few years but especially the innovations that are yet to come!
PropTech Innovation Summit – LIVE
Berlin, 27th September 2022
Pre-register now!
Attend the live event in Berlin
Interested in attending the Summit and PropTech Innovation Award and experiencing the future of PropTech live?
Pre-register now for the live event in Berlin on 27th September 2022 at the Holzmarkt, and be one of the first to know when the official registration is open!
The Jury of the PropTech Innovation Award 2022
Dr. Christoph Holzmann
COO, Union Investment
Philipp Janssen
Managing Partner, Townscape
Benjamin Rohé
Founder & Chairman of the Board, GERMANTECH
Dr. Stephan Plesser
Managing Director,Synavision / Head of quality management and digitization, TU Braunschweig
Tina Paillet
Senior Vice President, RICS & Co-Founder, Circotrade
Dan Gildoni
CEO & Co-Founder, PlaceSense
Stefanie Frensch
CSR Committee Chairwoman & Executive Board, ZIA / Supervisory Board, Becker & Kries Unternehmensgruppe
Nicole Büttner
CEO & Co-Founder, Merantix
Markus Börner
CEO & Founder, OptioPay
Voices about the PropTech Innovation Award
"The planning and realization of modern office spaces is the focus of Townscape.
Our special attention is primarily on modern building materials, smart planning tools, energy-efficient architecture and AI-based solutions for living and working environments. That is why we are delighted to be invited to participate in the PropTech Innovation Awards from this year on and to accompany the winners of the award in the future as well."
Philipp Janssen, Managing Partner at Townscape
"The planning and realization of modern office spaces is the focus of Townscape.
Our special attention is primarily on modern building materials, smart planning tools, energy-efficient architecture and AI-based solutions for living and working environments. That is why we are delighted to be invited to participate in the PropTech Innovation Awards from this year on and to accompany the winners of the award in the future as well."
Philipp Janssen, Managing Partner at Townscape
"The planning and realization of modern office spaces is the focus of Townscape.
Our special attention is primarily on modern building materials, smart planning tools, energy-efficient architecture and AI-based solutions for living and working environments. That is why we are delighted to be invited to participate in the PropTech Innovation Awards from this year on and to accompany the winners of the award in the future as well."
Philipp Janssen, Managing Partner at Townscape
"We are full of anticipation for the sixth edition! With all the experience we've gained over the last few years, we're now going to take on specific challenges in the field of sustainability for the most promising start-ups and technologies - we're very excited about this! In addition, our competition will culminate this year in the big Proptech Innovation Summit, where we will bring back the real estate scene to a physical space. Additionally we are excited that this year’s “prize money” will be a real investment by the all new PropTech Innovation Funds that is being set up. This will not only help the winners financially but give them exposure to our many investors of the funds, who are all real estate experts along the value chain."
Maria Gross, Managing Director at GERMANTECH
"We are full of anticipation for the sixth edition! With all the experience we've gained over the last few years, we're now going to take on specific challenges in the field of sustainability for the most promising start-ups and technologies - we're very excited about this! In addition, our competition will culminate this year in the big Proptech Innovation Summit, where we will bring back the real estate scene to a physical space. Additionally we are excited that this year’s “prize money” will be a real investment by the all new PropTech Innovation Funds that is being set up. This will not only help the winners financially but give them exposure to our many investors of the funds, who are all real estate experts along the value chain."
Maria Gross, Managing Director at GERMANTECH
"We are full of anticipation for the sixth edition! With all the experience we've gained over the last few years, we're now going to take on specific challenges in the field of sustainability for the most promising start-ups and technologies - we're very excited about this! In addition, our competition will culminate this year in the big Proptech Innovation Summit, where we will bring back the real estate scene to a physical space. Additionally we are excited that this year’s “prize money” will be a real investment by the all new PropTech Innovation Funds that is being set up. This will not only help the winners financially but give them exposure to our many investors of the funds, who are all real estate experts along the value chain."
Maria Gross, Managing Director at GERMANTECH
"This year, the focus is on an area where innovative proptech solutions have a particularly important role to play – sustainable transformation and repurposing of existing buildings,The potential for new business models that meet the need to revitalise our city centres is huge, right through to specific aspects such as material recycling and managing interim use during the transformation process. Close cooperation between the real estate sector and proptechs is critical to the success of transformation and overcoming the associated challenges. The digital economy can provide valuable input and creative ideas here."
Christoph Holzmann, COO and member of the management board at Union Investment Real Estate GmbH
"This year, the focus is on an area where innovative proptech solutions have a particularly important role to play – sustainable transformation and repurposing of existing buildings,The potential for new business models that meet the need to revitalise our city centres is huge, right through to specific aspects such as material recycling and managing interim use during the transformation process. Close cooperation between the real estate sector and proptechs is critical to the success of transformation and overcoming the associated challenges. The digital economy can provide valuable input and creative ideas here."
Christoph Holzmann, COO and member of the management board at Union Investment Real Estate GmbH
"This year, the focus is on an area where innovative proptech solutions have a particularly important role to play – sustainable transformation and repurposing of existing buildings,The potential for new business models that meet the need to revitalise our city centres is huge, right through to specific aspects such as material recycling and managing interim use during the transformation process. Close cooperation between the real estate sector and proptechs is critical to the success of transformation and overcoming the associated challenges. The digital economy can provide valuable input and creative ideas here."
Christoph Holzmann, COO and member of the management board at Union Investment Real Estate GmbH
The Partners
Union Investment Real Estate
To help shape digital transformation, Union Investment engages closely with the international Proptech scene. We believe a collaborative approach is the best way to promote ideas and benefit from innovation at an early stage. To promote this approach, we launched the PropTech Innovation Award together with GERMANTECh six years ago, which is now the leading event for boosting awareness of innovative solutions in the real estate sector and bringing Proptech companies into contact with established players in the real estate industry.
Our work has always been marked by a commitment to innovating the property sector. We particularly focus on modern building materials, smart planning tools, energy-efficient architecture and AI-driven residential and office space solutions. As a result of this approach our office developments GROW, ENTER and SCALE have already attracted premium tenants such as Bonial, Merantix, Contentful and BASF. Our current SPARK office development will be a hybrid timber construction.
The principles that we embrace in our development projects also apply within our own organisation: both the senior management and the entire Townscape team are committed to short decision-making processes and collaborative relationships.
GERMANTECH brings innovative projects to life, develops digital products and creates new jobs. In doing so, the company accompanies clients from the private, public and social sectors along the entire innovation lifecycle and creates individual solutions that combine technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Depending on the partner’s requirements, the spectrum can range from topic-related individual workshops to the development and implementation of a completely new company.
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