German AI ConTech startup conmeet secures €1.3 million pre-Seed as it exits stealth mode

conmeet, a Borken, Germany-based AI-enabled cloud platform for process-oriented construction and trade companies, today announced the successful completion of its €1.3 million pre-Seed round as it exits stealth mode. 

The round was led by May Ventures under Managing Partner Maximilian Derpa. The founders have themselves contributed “substantial equity” to the financing. 

“The combination of a serial entrepreneur with exit experience, an AI-ready technology base, and proven traction in a fragmented market makes conmeet an exceptionally exciting investment,” commented Maximilian Derpa, Managing Partner at May Ventures.

conmeet was founded in 2023 by Benedikt Kisner, Leandro Ananias, and Lennart Eckerlein. Kisner is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the netgo group, which he exited through a sale to a private equity investor. Together with Ananias (CTO) and Eckerlein (COO), Kisner built conmeet over two years in stealth mode, self-financed.

According to the German startup, the market for enterprise software in the construction and skilled trades sector is highly fragmented and dominated by outdated on-premise solutions. It also states that medium-sized companies working with an average of 5-8 different tools lead to data silos, media breaks, and high administrative overhead. It adds that many modern cloud-based tools are often insufficient to address the process complexity of these businesses.

conmeet claims to be the first fully cloud-native platform for this target group. The software combines CRM, ERP, project management, controlling, banking, and communication on a central database. The company states that its AI-supported workflows are designed to automate routine processes and orchestrate complex business processes. conmeet reports that this results in a 20-40% reduction in administrative effort while maintaining enterprise functionality.

The company highlights its ecosystem-based approach as a strategic element of its platform. The platform enables cross-company collaboration with subcontractors, sub-contractors, and project partners through structured project hierarchies, shared construction diaries and integrated defect management. The firm states that this approach can contribute to network effects and higher switching costs for existing customers.

“After two years of product development, the first customers have been working successfully with conmeet for several months. The platform’s sweet spot is process-oriented construction and craft businesses with between 10 and 500 employees – a segment with considerable market potential and a high willingness to pay for real efficiency gains,” the company mentioned in the press release. 

The fresh capital will be used for scaling, building up sales and marketing, and strengthening the engineering team for further development of AI capabilities. conmeet has the long-term vision of being positioned as the central AI platform for the entire real estate value chain. 

According to the company’s roadmap, development is planned along two strategic lines. The first focuses on the expansion of AI agents that can increasingly control entire business processes autonomously and replace manual tasks. The second involves expansion into an ecosystem that integrates architects, general contractors, facility management, and maintenance service providers in addition to trades and construction, to offer a comprehensive platform covering everything from planning and construction to operation.

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