Candidates can apply until 28 February to the 4th edition of the PropTech Startup & Scale-Up Europe Awards. The semi-finals will take place on 27 and 28 June 2022 in Brussels. The finals will be organised in September 2022.
The European PropTech Association has launched its 2022 PropTech Startup & Scale-Up Europe Awards. The competition aims at identifying the most promising property technology European startups and scale-ups innovating in real estate.
The awards aim to help startups to get visibility and support amid legal barriers, fragmented market and funding issues.
“This 4th edition is expected to have a tremendous impact because of the unique transformation context of the real estate value chain caused by covid-19,” the association says in a press release. “More than 400 applications had been submitted in January 2021 and the 2022 edition is expected to outnumber that result”.
Over 250 of the major real estate and tech corporations of Europe are contributing to the pan-European event, which includes five main subcategories: Invest, Market, Design & Build, Manage & Operate, Live & Work.
All candidates have until 28 February 2022 to submit their applications. The semi-finals will take place on 27 and 28 June 2022 in Brussels in front of a live jury.
“The competition is a unique opportunity for startups and scale-ups to get tremendous pan-European recognition.”
Dirk Paelinck
Innovation and funding
Jury members include construction and real estate companies such as Cushman & Wakefield, Segro, Proximus, Allianz, Immobel, EPRA, RICS, Patrizia, Deloitte, CBRE, Skanska, Schneider Electric, Gartner, Aedas Homes, BPI, Inowai, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Alstria, Bouwinvest, Covivio, Cofinimmo, Colliers, Savills, Merlin Properties, Azora, Besix, Innogy, PwC…
Judging procedures are due to end on 30 April 2022.
The ceremony for the awards and pitching for the finals will be held in Brussel in September 2022, in the presence of a representative of the European Commission.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Brussels, the European PropTech Association’s mission is to support a sustainable European PropTech market while creating a positive impact on the European built environment.
“Our objectives are to scale up cross-border collaborations, to standardise the European PropTech markets, to create a legal framework adapted to PropTech, to foster innovation in real estate and to facilitate access to funding,” explains Dirk Paelinck, the association’s chairman.
The organisation includes 24 national PropTech Associations: Finnovating (ESP), Holland PropTech & ConTech (NL), LuxPropTech (LU), PropTech Bulgaria (BG), German PropTech Initiative, Nordic PropTech Initiative, PropTech Foundation (PO), PropTech Slovakia (SK), PropTech NL, PropTech Sweden, UK PropTech Association, Proptech Lab (B), Czech-Slovak PropTech Association (CZ), PropTech Finland, PropTech Romania, PropTech Denmark, Swiss PropTech, PropTech Norway, PropTech Association Slovenia, PropTech Baltic, Spanish PropTech, French PropTech, The Italian PropTech Association, Austrian PropTech Initiative.
“The awards are supported and promoted by the European Commission & FINNOVA (EU), supported by the President of the European Parliament, the President of the European Committee of the Regions, the Vice-President of the Economic and Social Committee, and the 24 PropTech National Associations of Europe,” Paelinck details.
“The competition is a unique opportunity for startups and scale-ups to get tremendous pan-European recognition. And for jury members, it is an efficient market intelligence tool to source technology and to identify the potential future unicorns”.
The European PropTech ecosystem includes 3,134 proptech companies in Europe, which have raised over €4 billion in 2021.
