conmeet closes €1.3m pre-seed round with May Ventures and founder investment

conmeet, the AI-enabled cloud platform for construction and trade companies, has successfully closed a €1.3 million pre-seed financing round. Lead investor is May Ventures under Managing Partner Maximilian Derpa. In an unusually strong constellation for pre-seed rounds, the founders themselves also participated in the round with substantial equity.

A founder with a track record

conmeet is backed by a team of founders with industry and technology expertise. CEO Benedikt Kisner is a serial entrepreneur with a proven exit track record. As founder of the netgo group, he realized a successful sale to a private equity investor. At the time of his exit, the company employed over 1,300 people and generated triple-digit million sales.

The combination of a serial entrepreneur with exit experience, an agentic AI-enabled technology base and existing traction in a fragmented market makes conmeet an exceptionally exciting investment

Maximilian Derpa, Managing Partner at May Ventures

Together with CTO Leandro Ananias and COO Lennart Eckerlein, Kisner developed conmeet over two years in stealth mode with his own funding.

Too many tools, too little overview

The market for business software in the construction and trade sector is highly fragmented. Medium-sized companies today often work with 5 to 8 different software solutions, from ERP to project management to communication.

The consequences:

• Data silos and media disruptions
• High administrative effort
• Little transparency regarding projects, costs and processes

Although modern cloud tools are often simple, they do not reflect the actual complexity of process-oriented companies.

A central platform with AI automation as a solution

This is exactly where conmeet comes in. The platform is fully cloud-native and combines

• CRM
• ERP
• project management
• controlling
• banking
• Communication

on a common database.

AI-supported workflows automate recurring tasks and control complex processes. The result: 20-40% less administrative effort with enterprise functionality.

More than just software

A key strategic advantage of conmeet is its ecosystem approach. The platform enables structured collaboration across company boundaries - for example with subcontractors, sub-suppliers or project partners.

The team has proven that it can build and scale complex companies.

Dominik Lohle, Managing Partner at May Ventures

Functions such as shared project hierarchies, digital construction diaries and integrated defect management create network effects and significantly increase switching costs for existing customers.

First customers are live

After two years of product development, the first customers are already working successfully with conmeet. The sweet spot is process-oriented construction and trade companies with 10 to 500 employees. This is a market segment with a high willingness to pay and great potential for digitalization.

Use of funds: scaling & AI expansion

The fresh capital will flow primarily into

• the development of sales and marketing,
• strengthening the engineering team,
• and the targeted expansion of AI functionalities.

In the long term, conmeet wants to establish itself as a central AI platform for the entire real estate value chain.

The roadmap has two main focuses:

1. AI agents that increasingly control entire business processes autonomously
2. Expansion of a cross-industry ecosystem that also integrates architects, general contractors, facility management and maintenance service providers

conmeet is a cloud-native all-in-one platform for process-oriented construction and trade companies. Through intelligent automation and complete integration, conmeet makes the complexity of medium-sized companies manageable.