MAECONOMY Raises €1.5M To Grow Circular Building Materials Platform

The round was led by LUMO Labs, with participation from LIOF, the regional development agency of Limburg.

Founded in 2023, MAECONOMY is a Dutch startup building financial infrastructure for the circular economy. Its platform enables stakeholders to track, verify, and trade materials in the built environment, turning buildings into asset-backed, liquid resources.

The company combines AI-driven material mapping, digital material passports, and blockchain-based trading to standardise and monetise construction materials as financial assets.

This creates transparency, liquidity, and new opportunities for asset owners, municipalities, and investors to capture both economic and environmental value.

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MAECONOMY highlights that over one-third of EU waste comes from construction and demolition, where valuable materials are often lost due to inefficient systems.

Its platform addresses this by digitising material data and converting it into actionable insights, helping unlock value and support large-scale circular reuse.

The company also enables measurable CO₂ reductions helping organisations comply with evolving EU sustainability frameworks such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy.

MAECONOMY is currently active in the Netherlands, working with municipalities and institutional asset owners, and is exploring expansion across Europe and into global markets.

“MAECONOMY is creating a new model for circular building materials. We are building the missing financial infrastructure that makes a market for these materials possible. Our platform introduces a new principle: materials in buildings can be standardised, verified, and traded, even before they are extracted. The support from LUMO Labs and LIOF allows us to accelerate this vision and bring it to scale across Europe,” said Vince Meens, founder and CEO of MAECONOMY.