Collaboration and support accelerated growth

In spring 2023, Make a BIM won the Location Intelligence for Smart Cities hackathon co-organised by the Location Innovation Hub. The company was founded later that same year. The Location Innovation Hub supported Make a BIM in its early stage with, among other things, funding and IPR advisory.

Since then, the company’s growth has been rapid. Today, Make a BIM already serves major players in the construction industry and has raised growth funding to expand operations and continue developing its tools. The main investor is Kiilto Ventures.

“We have actively participated in various startup programmes and received valuable mentoring from our investors as well. For early-stage entrepreneurs, any support that helps build connections to potential customers is incredibly valuable. In B2B, this usually means building connections with large, established companies,” Salomaa notes.

Next, Make a BIM is aiming for further international growth.

“We are particularly pleased that companies as far as the United States and Asia have already discovered us and used our AI directly through our website. We are currently focused on ensuring our AI produces increasingly accurate, independently generated information models tailored to customer needs,” Salomaa says.

In the longer term, the vision is that Make a BIM’s tool could model thousands of buildings at once — combining drawings, documents, photographs and point clouds.

“Bringing all that data together would be truly disruptive. It would multiply the industry’s productivity and create a new market for intelligent building solutions,” Salomaa envisions.

• Find out more about Make a BIM on their website: makeabim.com

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