Accelerator program
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What it’s about:
With 42 startups accelerated to date, the Holcim MAQER Ventures Accelerator is an equity-free 6-month accelerator program fostering innovation in the construction space, with technical and market expertise from Holcim and world-class corporate partners.
Discover the program
ACCESS & OPPORTUNITIES
Gain access to technical/business experts and actual markets from which you can gather valuable feedback. Use R&D facilities of the involved international partners for product testing and as a launchpad.
COACHING & NETWORKING
Access to high level mentoring by working with top managers from international companies all along the construction value chain.
CO-CREATE IMPACT
Work with Holcim country operations directly to create impact with your solution in tests and demonstrations during the program.
What’s in it for
you as a startup
Develop your early product with real market and technical feedback from Holcim and other corporate partners
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Whether you’re a startup or a potential partner, we want to hear from you. Contact us!
Matthieu Horgnies
Marjorie Chantin
STARTUPS
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2026
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2024
A focus on driving circularity within the construction industry. Presented in partnership with Acciona, Amazon, BloombergNEF, Cambridge Cleantech, EU Business School, Mott MacDonald and Suez.
Participating startups:
- Carbon to Stone
- Concrete Watcher
- Co-reactive
- Demet’Air
- Dowmann
- Ecolocked
- Eva GreenTech
- Holedeck
- Mykor
- Pyrowave
- Solid Carbon
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2022
A focus on carbon efficient construction, with pain points highlighted by the business units around recycled and sustainable building materials, social housing, reuse of demolition waste and bio-based concrete solutions. Presented in partnership with Sika, Bouygues Construction and Mott McDonald.
Participating startups:
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2019-2020
Operations-driven pain points such as construction waste, CO2 neutrality, digital design, performance monitoring and real time quality control in cooperation with Sika and CCCC.
Participating startups:
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2018
Open call to all construction-related pain points in cooperation with Sika and China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). Close collaboration with Holcim’s corporate entities.
Participating startups:
- Advanced Construction Technology
- Alice Technology
- Bulldozair
- CarbonCure
- Carbon Upcycling Technologies
- Performance Biofilaments
- Precast Technology
- Resolving
- Strayos
- 3D Structural Formwork