Infrastructure, Construction & Building Products
Unrivalled expertise to help the construction and infrastructure sector meet the challenges of decarbonisation, productivity, safety and new uses. Impulse Partners is proudly supporting innovation strategies for leading construction groups in Europe, North American, Middle-East and Asia
Accelerating the Digital & Sustainable Transformation of the Construction Industry
Impulse Partners supports executives and innovation teams by helping them accelerate their strategic agenda. We have a team of 50 consultants who work with 200+ corporates and 3,000+ startups. We have built a strong and global ecosystem of entrepreneurs, tech firms, VCs and decision makers in the fields of construction, real estate, energy & infrastructure. Our experience in bringing together value-chain stakeholders allows us to trigger pilot projects and investment opportunities, while supporting construction leaders in their innovation endeavours
Leveraging on our expertise and network.
We have an extensive experience in supporting corporate innovation strategies, designing innovation engines in collaboration with startups and operating incubators/accelerators/investment funds.
- Research, benchmark and case studies: we have a unique access to a large network of innovators and decision makers
- Innovation advisory: strategy, governance, etc.
- Investments, Acquisitions and Due diligences: we leverage on our extensive experience in venture capital to advise corporate investments.
- Intrapreneurship programs & venture studio: we have developed and nurtured specific skills to bring value to your intrapreneurship projects; Our ecosystem approach guarantees impactful acceleration of projects through access to clients, VCs, mentors & experts
- Corporate Accelerator programs: we leverage on our extensive knowledge of corporate-startup collaboration to support our clients willing to engage in start-up challenges, incubators, accelerators, investment funds.
They trust us
Barton Malow - USA
Creation of a start-up acceleration program for Barton Malow on the themes of ‘Solar Factory’, ‘Autonomous Reality Capture‘, ‘Underground Utility Mapping‘ and ‘Landscape Feasibility Analysis‘. Identification of relevant innovative startups.
Tokyo City Tech - Japan
Organizations of individual meetings and group sessions with top Japanese Corporate groups in Construction, Infrastructure and Energy
CRH Ventures - USA
Acceleration program run in 2023 on the ”Water” theme and renewed in 2024 on the “Roads of the future” theme. Identification of relevant innovative startups.
Ellisdon - Canada
Acceleration program run in 2023 and renewed in 2024 on the “Construction Tech” theme.
Hitachi Construction Machinery
Acceleration program run in 2024 on “Planning”, “Equipment autonomy” and “Fleet Management” themes.
Saint-Gobain - France
Acceleration program run in 2021 on “energy renovation of buildings” theme.
Shimizu - Japan
Impulse Partners is carrying out a study on the trends in the use of artificial intelligence in the construction sector.
Our clients and partners testify
‘Impulse Partners are the right people to approach about ConTech, PropTech and digital transformation.
Impulse Partners has a strong ability to work with key accounts in the sector, and to interact with major groups, start-ups and local authorities.‘
‘Impulse Partners has played a fundamental role in our development, providing us with Vinci Construction as an investor and multiple access points to market players, such as Saint-Gobain. ‘
‘Our research priority is start-ups in the fields of building performance, construction productivity and the circular economy.
Working with Impulse Partners provides us with a deal flow and meetings that have led to several collaborations with the Saint-Gobain Group. It has also enabled us to connect with other players, given Impulse Partners' strong presence in the construction sector.‘
‘Thanks to Impulse Partners, we're tuned in to market trends, new businesses, new activities.‘
‘There is a proportion of innovation in construction that is driven by public procurement, so being able to go and talk to these local authorities is a very important element for us, and that's what Impulse is all about.’
‘The aim of SiteFlow is to transform the way we work together in the context of field operations in highly complex and sensitive environments (nuclear power stations, offshore platforms).
Impulse Partners played a key role in putting us in touch with Orano and enabling us to present our solution to them, which led to us being awarded a contract and propelled to help us become a leader. Impulse Partners introduced us at the right time.‘
"This was perhaps the best roadway infrastructure event I have been to and I hope Impulse Partners is able to continue this tradition with CRH Ventures as thought leaders in this space."
“Since 2023, we've been accelerating on Open innovation [...], with the help of Impulse Partners.
Connecting with the Impulse Partners ecosystem has also helped us a great deal to broaden our knowledge of start-ups and innovative solution providers who can help us [...]. There are a lot of things that are thought out here [internally at ADP], but we think even better together, [...] getting inspiration and good ideas from outside too.”
Interested to know more?
If you need help structuring your innovation strategy, accelerating its implementation, or acculturating your employees, contact us!