€400B+
Portfolio Value
AtechX Ecosystem Access
NOT A CLASSROOM. A PROVING GROUND.
The people, platform and portfolio powering innovation.
3 COUNTRIES | 8.67M SQM
The Scale-Up Programme Defining the Future of the Built World
Launched by Aroundtown in 2024, AtechX brings together Europe's largest, most innovative real estate players with a shared commitment to find and deploy solutions that will define the future of real estate. The 16-week programme turns these portfolios into live deployment environments, providing selected startups the access, proof points, and traction they need to reach scale. AtechX also partners with the world's leading built-world VCs, who back the most promising solutions and open their networks to the founders that earn it. If you're building the future of real estate, AtechX is where you scale it.
€400B+
13
Partners
Enterprise & Industry Partners
16 Weeks
Accelerator Cycle
Validation to Deployment
5
Focus Verticals
Strategic Focus Areas
One Goal
Transform
The Future of Real Estate
By the ecosystem. for the ecosystem.
What began as Aroundtown's internal testbed has evolved into a platform for the entire real estate ecosystem.
2024
Built to solve our own problems
AtechX began with a simple frustration: promising real estate technologies had few opportunities to prove themselves in real-world environments. Aroundtown opened its portfolio as a live testbed, enabling startups to pilot solutions with real assets, tenants, and budgets. One question mattered: does it work here?
2025
The Realisation phase
After three cohorts, one thing became clear: operators across the industry faced the same challenges. Startups testing across multiple portfolios gained more deployment opportunities, learned faster, and scaled more effectively. The model could go further.
Today
A shared ecosystem
So we expanded AtechX. Today, startups gain direct access to 13 real estate partners across three continents, connecting emerging technologies with the operators who need them most. What started as Aroundtown’s testbed has become a platform for the wider industry.
Themes we're watching
Five shifts reshaping the built world
The technologies, business models, and infrastructure layers shaping the next decade of real estate.
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Real estate runs on fragmented systems that rarely connect. As applications get easier to build, the durable companies are the ones organizing what sits underneath: connecting property and management systems, keeping data fresh and agent-accessible, and making whole portfolios readable. The smartest application in the world is only as good as the data underneath it, and underneath is where real estate is weakest.
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As agents take on operational work, software has to be rebuilt for them: tools agents can call directly, orchestration that keeps long-running work on track, and the plumbing that makes agents affordable to run at scale. This layer is horizontal, and the built world is one of the largest operational arenas it will serve. Our partners are already asking which parts of their operations agents can carry first.
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Real estate runs on sensitive data with no margin for error: tenant records, transactions, compliance filings. Before agents can carry that work, their output has to be checked against gold-standard sources, governed by clear protocols, and auditable after the fact. Evaluation, permissioning, and standards are what let enterprises hand real work to agents with confidence. Trust is the first question our partners raise about any agentic solution, and the reason most pilots stall before deployment.
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Buildings demand physical work at every stage of their life: construction, cleaning, maintenance, inspection, security, logistics. Labor is getting scarcer while autonomous systems that can see, plan, and act in messy real-world environments are finally ready, on the construction site and inside the operating building. Our partners feel the labor gap across every asset class they operate, from the job site to the lobby.
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Demand that is physically anchored never goes away: maintenance, energy, water, land. The opening is in how those essential services are priced, delivered, and integrated, from AI-native delivery to new ownership and pricing structures that rewrite the economics of the work. These services sit in every operating budget our partners manage, year after year, with economics that have barely moved in decades.
