Net Zero Real Estate Investment and Renovation Planning
Short Business Description:
Real estate is under pressure to re-strategize towards efficient, renewable, and affordable building renovations. The ETH-spinoff Optiml offers AI-powered software to provide cost and CO₂-conscious decision support for real estate owners, asset managers, and consultants. The startup aims to create data transparency on renovation needs and risks (status quo), to optimize asset and portfolio investment decisions, to derive actionable measures per asset, and to anticipate long-term regulatory compliance.
Real estate is largely un-digitalized and has a critical impact on our climate. In Europe, 90% of buildings will stand by 2050 and the majority of them do not reach CO2 targets. The ever-changing landscape of regulatory, economical, and geopolitical forces are putting pressure on owners to re-strategize towards efficient, renewable, and affordable buildings. Current building cost and CO2 assessments and strategies are consulting-based, simplistic, and static.
Optiml tackles the urgent need in Real Estate to adhere to sustainability goals (ticket to play) while being profitable. The startup aims to empower real estate asset managers with a digital solution to take impactful, realistic, and sustainable actions. Optiml does so by offering a complete solution for managing building costs and CO2 emissions to make decision-making easier for ESG reporting and energy consulting, helping with Europe’s “Net Zero Action Planning.” Optiml simplifies the process for its customers by creating databases, optimization and statistics models, 3D digital twins, and offering an easy-to-use platform. This allows real estate managers, even without technical skills, to use the tools to plan their capital expenses, operating expenses, revenue, energy, and CO2 strategies for their buildings.
At the intersection of PropTech & CleanTech, Optiml enables the field of Real Estate to accelerate renovations; a 300% increase is required to decarbonize the sector which accounts for 40% of global emissions. Optiml’s AI-powered, B2B SaaS solution provides cost and CO2-conscious decision support for owners and consultants.
Founder Evan Petkov has over ten years of experience as a sustainable building engineer. During his PhD, he worked with real estate stakeholders to develop the Optiml platform. His two cofounders are Jordi Campos (CTO) and Nico Dehnert (CCO).