Urban Odyssey, in collaboration with three innovative start-ups – Time to Beem, Lokimo, and SeveUp – is accelerating the French real estate sector’s shift towards low-carbon practices and sustainable land use through the power of digital technologies. These ventures offer cutting-edge solutions, from optimizing carbon footprints to biodiversity analysis, empowering professionals to create a more sustainable and resilient built environment.
The real estate and construction sector accounts for a staggering 23% of French greenhouse gas emissions, necessitating swift action to reduce carbon footprints and meet the objectives of the RE2020. Embracing digital technologies has emerged as a powerful lever for driving this transition. Urban Odyssey, a French start-up studio dedicated to real estate and urban development, has rapidly fostered and invested in three cutting-edge digital start-ups, including AI, to accelerate low-carbon and land transitions in the industry. Let’s delve into the innovative solutions offered by these promising ventures: Time to Beem, Lokimo and SeveUp.
Piloting and Optimizing Carbon Footprint: Time to Beem
Time to Beem, founded by Camille Vivien in late 2022, aims to facilitate digital and environmental transitions in the real estate sector. The start-up has developed a collaborative digital solution incorporating 3D modeling technologies. This innovative platform empowers project owners and managers to dynamically evaluate and manage the carbon cost of their real estate operations during the design phase. By reliably assessing their commitments to the RE2020, professionals can drive low-carbon practices. Time to Beem’s expertise in building life cycle analysis and mastery of 3D technologies, such as BIM, has already attracted prominent clients, including national developer Icade.
Mastering Land Challenges and Biodiversity Potential: Lokimo
Lokimo, co-founded by Martin Noël and Binta Gamassa, harnesses the power of data and artificial intelligence to serve real estate professionals. The platform offers a comprehensive, multi-criteria analysis of land challenges, including a thorough assessment of the biodiversity potential in buildable areas. By providing real estate developers and social landlords with invaluable insights, Lokimo helps them embark on projects that align with sustainable practices. Constantly enriching its solution with diverse datasets, spanning social, economic, financial, technical, and climate risks, Lokimo aims to enhance the accuracy of its predictive tool for better diagnostics.
Analyzing and Optimizing Performance: SeveUp
SeveUp, founded by Julien Mercier and Julian Bringold in December 2022, introduces a data movement platform that seamlessly connects project data from various sources with powerful analysis solutions like Business Intelligence. By employing dedicated data conversion technologies, specifically designed for the construction and real estate sectors, SeveUp processes and harmonizes these data, providing stakeholders with contextualized dashboards. This comprehensive and reliable information empowers professionals to act decisively, considering economic, operational, and environmental aspects. Within a few months, SeveUp’s platform has generated substantial cumulative revenue, exceeding €500,000.
Driving Urban Transitions: Urban Odyssey’s Unique Approach
In response to climate challenges, cities are proactively preparing for transitions in three key areas: low-carbon practices, land preservation, and the development of resilient buildings. As the real estate and urban development sectors lie at the heart of these transformations, Urban Odyssey has implemented a unique methodology to provide concrete support to start-ups and entrepreneurs. As a start-up studio closely affiliated with Icade, a major player in the French real estate industry, Urban Odyssey offers operational, financial, and commercial partnerships to its ventures. This comprehensive approach has yielded remarkable results, with 13 start-ups already launched since its establishment in 2019. These start-ups, with an average age of 2 years, have generated an impressive average revenue of €300,000, largely attributable to Urban Odyssey’s collaboration with Icade. Encouraged by this success, the innovation studio aims to launch 3 to 5 new projects annually and continuously explores new investment opportunities.
Urban Odyssey, in collaboration with its three dynamic start-ups, Time to Beem, Lokimo, and SeveUp, is propelling the real estate industry towards low-carbon and land transitions. By leveraging digital technologies and innovative solutions, these ventures are making significant contributions to building a more sustainable and resilient future. With Urban Odyssey’s unwavering support, these start-ups are poised to scale their impact and inspire further advancements in the sector. As the challenges of urban development and climate change persist, the alliance between entrepreneurial endeavors and established industry leaders, like Icade, will continue to drive transformative solutions. Urban Odyssey stands at the forefront of this movement, pioneering change and forging a path toward a more sustainable urban landscape.
