The Viennese start-up Greenpass has raised a single-digit million amount from investors. The Haselsteiner Foundation Peak Pride, the start-up service aws and the British venture capitalist Pi Labs have invested, the aws announced on Wednesday. Greenpass belongs to the category of “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) companies and offers software for evaluating the environmental impact of real estate and open spaces.
Greenpass is a spin-off of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and Green4Cities GmbH. In the past three years, more than 160 developments in 12 European countries have been “made climate-friendly,” according to the broadcast. These include the Ikea Citystore at Vienna’s Westbahnhof with 160 trees or the Biotope City Wienerberg district.
urban planning
Customers include large builders and developers, but also cities and municipalities such as Vienna, Antwerp, The Hague and Duisburg. Greenpass wants to grow with the fresh money “with a focus on the DACH area, UK and the Benelux countries”.
For Christoph Haimberger, Managing Director at aws Gründerfonds, urban planning with the Greenpass software offers the prospect of reducing the number of hot days in cities. In particular, Greenpass will offer the possibility to prove the climate check and the climate risk analysis according to the new EU taxonomy. The “Taxonomy Check” will be officially launched “in the next few weeks”.