Construtech Ventures

Construtech Ventures is a Florianopolis, Brazil-based venture builder and investor founded in 2017 by Rafael Rocha, billing itself as the world's first venture builder exclusively focused on real estate and construction technology — a category its team calls Construtechs. The firm's model identifies genuine problems in the construction and real estate industries, prototypes solutions, recruits entrepreneurial teams, and builds startups with high growth potential. In parallel, it invests directly in existing Construtech companies run by founders capable of driving digital transformation in these traditionally slow-to-innovate sectors. Constructech Ventures leads rounds and deploys checks of $500,000 to $5 million at pre-seed through Series A stages, with 11 portfolio companies and two recorded exits as of 2019. Notable investments include EmCasa, a real estate marketplace that reached Series A, and Infraspeak, a Portuguese cloud infrastructure management platform that marked the firm's first investment outside Brazil. The portfolio is concentrated in real estate and property technology, with a deliberate expansion into Portugal and Europe. The venture builder model distinguishes Construtech from pure capital providers: by co-creating companies alongside founding teams, the firm takes on deep operational responsibility for each portfolio startup from concept through early growth. This hands-on involvement — embedding business designers, strategists, and technologists within each venture — reflects a conviction that the construction and real estate industries require purpose-built founding support, not simply funding.