MAECONOMY, a Dutch startup reworking constructing supplies into auditable, monetisable round property, has raised €1.5 million to speed up its market infrastructure improvement for the round constructed surroundings.
The spherical was led by LUMO Labs, an impact-driven multi-stage enterprise capital fund based mostly in Eindhoven, and LIOF, the regional improvement company of Limburg.
“MAECONOMY is creating a brand new mannequin for round constructing supplies. We’re constructing the lacking monetary infrastructure that makes a marketplace for these supplies attainable. Our platform introduces a brand new precept: supplies in buildings could be standardised, verified, and traded, even earlier than they’re extracted. The assist from LUMO Labs and LIOF permits us to speed up this imaginative and prescient and produce it to scale throughout Europe,” mentioned Vince Meens, founder and CEO of MAECONOMY.
Based in 2023, MAECONOMY is an rising tech startup growing the monetary infrastructure to assist the round financial system. Its platform permits stakeholders to trace, hint, and transact supplies throughout the constructed surroundings, turning buildings and infrastructure into liquid, asset-backed reserves.
MAECONOMY claims to create a system that allows supplies to be standardised, verified, and traded as monetary devices by combining AI-driven materials mapping, digital materials passports, and blockchain-based buying and selling infrastructure.
By creating visibility, verification, and liquidity for these supplies, MAECONOMY permits asset homeowners, municipalities, and traders to seize each financial and environmental worth at scale. The Dutch startup notes that this unlocks beforehand invisible worth, permits round reuse at scale, and introduces a brand new asset class linking actual property, commodities, and capital markets.
The corporate states that over one-third of all waste within the European Union comes from the development and demolition sector. Most supplies concerned in demolition or renovation nonetheless have measurable residual worth, however present market programs are unable to reliably seize, value, or certify this worth.
MAECONOMY claims to deal with this challenge by its platform, which digitises building- and material-level knowledge and applies algorithmic fashions to transform uncooked inputs into commercially actionable intelligence, enabling the round constructed surroundings.
Dagmar van Ravenswaay Claasen, Senior Accomplice at LUMO Labs, mentioned, “MAECONOMY addresses the structural inefficiencies in building and demolition workflows, the place beneficial supplies reminiscent of metal, concrete, timber, and copper are sometimes left unused or handled as waste. By constructing the lacking monetary layer, the platform permits supplies in buildings to be standardised, verified, and traded even earlier than extraction.
“MAECONOMY facilitates a brand new future market and redefines how the worth of constructing supplies is captured and reworked, by AI-driven materials mapping, digital materials identities, and asset-backed monetary devices.”
The corporate additionally gives the muse for measurable CO₂ reductions, supporting compliance with rising EU sustainability frameworks, together with the Company Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy.
MAECONOMY is presently working within the Netherlands, collaborating with municipalities and institutional asset homeowners, whereas exploring enlargement all through Europe and different world markets.
