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Investor

Cemex Ventures

www.cemexventures.com ↗ ·Madrid ·Early stage ·Actively investing

Cemex Ventures is the corporate venture capital and open innovation unit of Cemex, the global building materials company, investing in and partnering with construction technology (contech) startups worldwide. It focuses on green/sustainable construction, construction supply chain, enhanced productivity, and the future of construction, and runs the Leaplab accelerator and an annual Top 50 Contech Startups report. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Madrid, it has backed roughly two dozen startups to date.

Portfolio

3

Team

8

AUM

n/a

Rounds

4

SectorsConstruction technology (Contech), Green/sustainable construction, Decarbonization & CCUS, Construction supply chain, Productivity & digitization, Circular economy/materials VC MapCorporate VC

Profile updated 18 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 0 Investment Team 2 Others 6

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Ibon Iribar

Investment and Open Innovation Advisor

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Liliana Cruz

Investment Analyst (Decarbonization)

Portfolio companies 3

Company Series A Vitoria-Gasteiz

SAALG Geomechanics

Company Series B Barcelona

Company Series A Barcelona

Funding rounds 4

Optimitive · Series A · €5M

Optimitive completed a €5M Series A for its OPTIBAT platform, which applies real-time AI to optimise energy-intensive industrial processes. …

2026-02-17

Waste to Energy Advanced Solutions (WtEnergy) · Series A · €10M

WtEnergy raised €10M led by SC Net Zero Ventures, Suma Capital's climate tech fund, with Shell Ventures joining and existing shareholder Cem…

2026-02-09

Optimitive · Other

Cemex Ventures made a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount in Optimitive, an Álava-based company whose Optibat software applies AI …

2025-04-22

SAALG Geomechanics · Seed · €500K

SAALG makes Daarwin, software that analyses ground behaviour in real time on civil engineering projects. It closed a €500K round led by Mott…

2021-05-26

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