CEMEX

Cemex Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Cemex, that mainly focuses on urban development, new construction trends and technologies, improving connectivity within the construction ecosystem and reinforcing project finance resources. The firm also provides with an open and collaborative platform to lead the evolution of the construction industry by engaging startups, entrepreneurs, universities and other stakeholders to shape tomorrow's value ecosystem. It also offers incubator and accelerator services within the construction industry and technology partnerships. Additionally, it provides global and local network to an established startup in the construction ecosystem that will help scale their business.

Gonzalo Galindo

CEO and Head

Cristina Aparicio Maeztu

Insight and Business Development Director

Mateo Zimmermann

Investment Manager

Past deals in Construction and Engineering

StructionSite, Inc

Seed Round in 2019
StructionSite makes construction companies more competitive and allows them to win more work by automating their production tracking and site documentation processes. Combining off-the-shelf 360 camera technology with machine vision, quantities of installed work and percentages of completion can be automatically tracked and aggregated across projects and regions. More accurate production tracking allows for more accurate and competitive bids on new work, creating a virtuous cycle for the builder or building owner using the tool. It was established in 2016, based in Oakland, California.

GoFor

Seed Round in 2020
GoFor is a provider of last-mile, on-demand, and same-day delivery services and solutions for suppliers and retailers. The company's streamlined SaaS platform encompasses a full suite of logistics capabilities including eCommerce integration, dispatching, and reporting. GoFor’s delivery model allows businesses to supplement their busy fleets or act as a complete out-sourced logistics partner. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Soil Connect Services, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Soil Connect Services, Inc. develops an application for soil transport and management. The company through its platform connects individuals with excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers, and other building professionals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Plainview, New York.

PuntoCom Holdings

Seed Round in 2000
Puntocom Holdings is out of business. The firm is an accelerator for Latin American e-businesses. Focusing on business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce, the firm adapts successful U.S. and European models for its clients, and applies them to Latin America's unique conditions. PuntoCom Holdings S.A. is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

GoFor

Seed Round in 2020
GoFor is a provider of last-mile, on-demand, and same-day delivery services and solutions for suppliers and retailers. The company's streamlined SaaS platform encompasses a full suite of logistics capabilities including eCommerce integration, dispatching, and reporting. GoFor’s delivery model allows businesses to supplement their busy fleets or act as a complete out-sourced logistics partner. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Modulous

Seed Round in 2021
Our planet doesn't have sufficient homes. Our technology will help change that. We're a team of designers, engineers and technologists dedicated to creating a technology platform designed to enable the high-speed design & delivery of quality, sustainable, healthy & affordable housing, globally.

Ready Mix USA

Acquisition in 2011
Ready Mix USA, Inc. produces and distributes ready mix concrete for residential, commercial, industrial, and government projects in the Southeastern United States. The company offers ready-mix concrete products, including flow able fill, grout, integral color concrete, lightweight concrete, pervious concrete, and shotcrete. It also provides grey concrete masonry units, architectural concrete masonry products, natural stone products, concrete pavers, retaining walls, and construction products; and aggregates comprising sand, gravel, limestone, and granite.

Arqlite SPC

Series A in 2020
Arqlite has developed a new proprietary process that differs from traditional recycling systems as it is low cost and also capable of recycling all kind of plastics, even the ones that today are considered as non-recyclable and represent about 70% of the stream (laminated, aluminized, degraded by water or UV, etc). 
The output of the process is a light artificial gravel used at the construction industry, precast concrete companies and landscapers among others. Arqlite is greener, cheaper, 10 times better insulator and 3 times lighter, representing an eco-friendly solution and a cost optimization.

Synhelion

Series B in 2021
Synhelion engages in experimental development on natural sciences and engineering.
Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective. Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plants and industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power-plants or retrofitted to existing ones. Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers.

Energy Vault SA

Post in 2022
Energy Vault SA offers an energy storage technology utilizing fundamental principles of science to deliver a storage solution that's as compassionate to the planet as it is efficient to build and operate. The Energy Vault solution utilizes the same fundamentals of physics and kinetic energy as pumped hydro but replaces the water with custom made cylindrical blocks utilizing an extremely innovative use of low-cost materials. The system is modular and can be designed with a capacity of between 10 and 35MWh and a power output of up to 5MW. The system has been designed for a 30+ year life with no degradation in storage capacity.

Saalg Geomechanics

Venture Round in 2021
Saalg Geomechanics is owner and operator of an engineering company intended to offer specialized advanced geological and numerical services. The company offers numerical model calibrations and soil and rock parameters characterization by backanalysis and inverse analysis, 2D and 3D geomechanical and geotechnical simulations, manily for TBM Tunnel Excavations, Conventional Tunnels, Large and deep excavations, reinforced earth retaining walls and wellbore stabity analysis, enabling their customers to build a bridge between academic research in the field of geomechanics and the industry.

Saalg Geomechanics

Venture Round in 2018
Saalg Geomechanics is owner and operator of an engineering company intended to offer specialized advanced geological and numerical services. The company offers numerical model calibrations and soil and rock parameters characterization by backanalysis and inverse analysis, 2D and 3D geomechanical and geotechnical simulations, manily for TBM Tunnel Excavations, Conventional Tunnels, Large and deep excavations, reinforced earth retaining walls and wellbore stabity analysis, enabling their customers to build a bridge between academic research in the field of geomechanics and the industry.

Voyage Control

Venture Round in 2021
Voyage Control Limited provides cloud based platform for for inbound logistics management. It manages, optimizes, and tracks freight deliveries. The company offers solutions for on-site logistics management, delivery scheduling, and resource allocation. Voyage Control Limited was founded in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective. Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plants and industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power-plants or retrofitted to existing ones. Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers.

Ipsum

Seed Round in 2017
IPSUM is a provider of an online productivity management platform for the construction industry called ProPlanner, which is a collaborative and integrated ecosystem for planning and managing engineering and construction projects based on Lean Construction and BIM methodologies. They also developed other features such as Doc Managing, QA/QC Checklist, Meeting Minutes, Subs Evaluation, Lean-BIM 4D and more. Focusing on changing the way construction projects are scheduling and planning their projects with a different approach and step by step easy-to-follow methodology. From Chile, with offices in Santiago and also Lima, Peru, and clients in 7 countries with some of the biggest construction companies in Latam. From buildings, industrial plants, civil works up to mining projects, ProPlanner can be used for any type of project.

GoFor

Seed Round in 2019
GoFor is a provider of last-mile, on-demand, and same-day delivery services and solutions for suppliers and retailers. The company's streamlined SaaS platform encompasses a full suite of logistics capabilities including eCommerce integration, dispatching, and reporting. GoFor’s delivery model allows businesses to supplement their busy fleets or act as a complete out-sourced logistics partner. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

X3 Builders

Venture Round in 2019
X3 Builders provides commercial construction services to the Bay Area's leading Owners and Developers. They pair their experienced teams with powerful software to deliver your projects with accountability and a peace of mind.

Soil Connect Services, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Soil Connect Services, Inc. develops an application for soil transport and management. The company through its platform connects individuals with excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers, and other building professionals. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Plainview, New York.

Concrete Sensors

Venture Round in 2018
Embedded sensors analyze data from concrete as it is curing to report the strength of the concrete in real time. Using known methods from ASTM and their library of concrete mixes, all you need is their sensor and a smartphone. With real-time feedback about the curing status of concrete, you will know: - Concrete cured under acceptable conditions - Concrete is not too cold - Concrete is not too hot - When to take the forms down - When to move on with work

Southdown

Acquisition in 2000
Southdown produces, distributes, and sells building materials in the United States. It offers cements, such as bulk and bagged cement; ready mix concretes; aggregates, such as stones, sand, and gravels; fly ashes; pipes/precast; concrete blocks; architectural products; gypsum; landscaping solutions; and asphalt products.

Energy Vault SA

Venture Round in 2019
Energy Vault SA offers an energy storage technology utilizing fundamental principles of science to deliver a storage solution that's as compassionate to the planet as it is efficient to build and operate. The Energy Vault solution utilizes the same fundamentals of physics and kinetic energy as pumped hydro but replaces the water with custom made cylindrical blocks utilizing an extremely innovative use of low-cost materials. The system is modular and can be designed with a capacity of between 10 and 35MWh and a power output of up to 5MW. The system has been designed for a 30+ year life with no degradation in storage capacity.
Developer and provider of a logistics software intended to optimize goods delivery. The company's software streamlines the management of your deliveries, improve routes with a browser specialized in heavy traffic, plan delivery, assign a driver to execute the order, enabling it's users to monitor the package in real time and improve customers' satisfaction.

RMC Group

Acquisition in 2004
RMC, headquartered in the UK, is a leading international producer and supplier of materials, products and services used primarily in the construction industry.

Beck ReadyMix Concrete Co

Acquisition in 2021
Beck ReadyMix Concrete supplies concrete for residential, commercial, and governmental jobs. Beck ReadyMix Concrete has two permanent locations as well as two portable batch plants in the San Antonio area that allow for the flexibility and output capacity to handle the most demanding jobs.

jelp

Venture Round in 2017
Developer of an on-demand expert finding application designed to find certified technicians for accomplishing household tasks. The company's platform provides a searchable database where one can find and connect to technicians, plumbers, electricians, masons and related service providers for carrying out home-based works, enabling users to find, hire and pay certified experts for on-demand household services with ease, without having to rely on third party contractors.

Prysmex

Venture Round in 2018
PRYSMEX develops state of the art industrial IoT capable of detecting and predicting industrial accidents and illnesses, while boosting efficiency in plants, factories, and mines.Their solution integrates wearable devices, collaborative app, management platform, data analytics, and a powerful customizable dashboard encouraging users to make decisions in real time that increases safety and boosts productivity.