Scalera Funding News- Zürich-based Scalera Raises $6.5Mn In Seed Round

The funding round was led by firstminute capital and Speedinvest, with support from angel investors, including Google executives, founders of billion-dollar startups, and experts from the construction industry.

Scalera was founded at ETH Zürich and is working to modernize the construction industry, which is known for being behind in adopting technology. With increasing delays in infrastructure projects and growing demand for homes, transport, and energy, Scalera wants to help speed up building across Europe.

“The opportunity is enormous, but the system is broken,” said Leonardo Reinhard, co-founder and CEO of Scalera. “To win public tenders today, companies still comb through thousand-page PDFs, copy line items into Excel, and email suppliers one by one. We started Scalera to end that madness and get vital projects moving again — faster, more affordably, and with total transparency.”

Scalera’s main product uses AI to speed up and simplify the construction bidding process.

It also supports common industry standards like NPK, BKP, VOB, and ÖNorm, making it easier for companies in different European countries to work together.

By automating these steps, Scalera reduces the time it takes to prepare bids and helps replace slow, manual methods with a faster, more accurate system.

“LLMs and Generative AI are one of the most exciting platform shifts in technology,” said Sam Endacott, Partner at firstminute capital. “We believe much of the commercial value will be built by teams focused on verticalised use cases in sectors which have yet to fully undergo digital transformation. The construction sector is a perfect example of this, which is why we are so excited to partner with the Scalera team.”

“The construction and real estate sector, the largest in Europe, is still stuck in outdated, cumbersome, and inefficient processes,” said Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, General Partner at Speedinvest. “We believe AI has the power to bring construction companies to the next level by automating essential mid- and back-office functions, improving overall efficiency and profitability.”

About Scalera

Scalera is a startup from Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2023 by Sven Affeltranger, Federico Gossi, and Leonard Reinhard. It provides AI-powered software that helps with tender processes in the construction industry. So far, the company hasn’t raised any funding.