Building management systems (BMS) startups are changing the real estate industry with smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable buildings. These startups utilize artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of technology (IoT), and cloud computing among other technologies to improve energy efficiency, and occupant comfort, and optimize operational costs. They also address sector-specific challenges in industries like healthcare, education, and commercial real estate, tailoring solutions to meet unique requirements.
Global Startup Heat Map highlights Emerging Building Management System Startups to Watch
Through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 5M+ startups, 20K+ technology trends plus 150M+ patents, news articles & market reports, we identified 10 building management system startups.
The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights the top emerging building management systems startups you should watch in 2025 as well as the geo-distribution of 2800+ startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research.
According to our data, we observe high startup activity in digital twin technology, online society management, and smart building monitoring systems, followed by intelligent car park management. The top 5 Startup Hubs for building management startups are London, New York City, Dubai, Sydney, and Bangalore.
Meet Emerging 10 Startups to Watch in 2025
We hand-picked startups to showcase in this report by filtering for their technology, founding year, location, funding, and other metrics. These building management system startups work on solutions ranging from smart security systems and intelligent parking systems to water leak detection systems and radiator management systems.
- Aronia Digital Twin – Digital Twin Technology for BMS
- NextSense – Real Estate Decarbonization
- BEAM Systems – Online Society Management Solution
- ROOMSYS – Smart Building Monitoring Solution
- InstaVision – AI-powered Smart Security Systems
- Watergate – Water Leak Detection System
- Safespot – Structural Integrity Monitoring System
- Resident Connect – Property and Vendor Management Solution
- Parkezi – Intelligent Car Park Management
- Heatmanager – Smart Radiator Management System
1. Aronia Digital Twin
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Tehran, Iran
- Solution: Digital Twin Technology for BMS
Aronia Digital Twin builds a 3D model viewer, which provides the digital twin of buildings. The viewer combines digital twin technology with laser scanning, internet of technology (IoT), and building information modeling (BIM) techniques.
The resultant digital twin is an interactive 3D model that is interconnected, intelligent, responsive, and adaptive and contains precise details about the building system. The digital twin is useful for real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, designing, and prototyping.
2. NextSense
- Founding Year: 2024
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Solution: Real Estate Decarbonization
NextSense builds a smart building platform. It creates a digital twin of the building, which assists in decarbonizing the commercial real estate. The platform uses simulations and AI control to provide a multi-layer investment strategy for reducing carbon dioxide footprints.
The personalized dashboard gathers all-time data from the digital replica of the building and provides control functionalities and optimization suggestions. It also offers a detailed performance report in alignment with the ESG standards for each building. These improve system performance and energy efficiency.
3. BEAM Systems
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Karachi, Pakistan
- Solution: Online Society Management Solution
BEAM Systems builds an app for smart residential management. The app enables users to place maintenance requests and streamline utility management. It features a water tanker management system, which manages the water supply system.
The QR-based visitor management system further ensures the security of the residents by simplifying visitor check-ins. It offers a transparent billing system and a complaint management system, improving community engagement and experience.
4. ROOMSYS
- Founding Year: 2024
- Location: Miami, Florida, USA
- Solution: Smart Building Monitoring Solution
ROOMSYS provides a centralized smart building solution for high-rise buildings. The solution detects water and gas leaks, controls thermostats, monitors humidity, and optimizes air quality. It uses long-range wide-area network (LoraWAN) technology for connecting multiple wireless sensors.
The building staff and all the residents have access to separate customized dashboards. Additionally, real-time alerts are available on mobile apps, SMS, phone calls, email, or WhatsApp. The solution has an easy-to-read screen containing information regarding water and gas leaks, temperature, open doors, and motion collected from multiple sensors.
5. InstaVision
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Carlsbad, California, USA
- Solution: AI-powered Smart Building Security Systems
InstaVision provides an AI-powered smart safety and security platform. The open platform uses AI to track cameras and enables instant streaming. It detects human movement, car, baby sleeping or breathing, fire packages, and provides senior care.
The platform turns any ordinary IP camera into cameras with P2P+ and relay capabilities. It is built on Kubernetes and is deployable on various cloud service providers.
The security system platform supports both A/C and battery cameras, and indoor, outdoor, and doorbell products. The software development kit (SDK) within the platform has Linux and a real-time system interface. It also enables two-way audio.
The cloud platform supports over-the-air (OTA) updates and provides the end users with the latest software version of the camera. Additionally, it is SOC II compliant and provides different secure storage options.
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6. Watergate
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Solution: Water Leak Detection System
Watergate builds an AI-based smart system that prevents water leaks anywhere on the property. The system consists of a Sonic Smart Stopcock and an application that tracks the insights about water usage collected by the stopcock. It comes with an autopilot mode, in which the stopcock autonomously takes actions as necessary.
Users also control the stopcock remotely through the app. The Watergate app optimizes water usage, conducts nightly pressure tests, monitors conditions, and provides alerts for leaks. It additionally initiates telephone calls in case of critical alerts. The smart system also lowers utility bills.
7. Safespot
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Mexico City, Mexico
- Solution: Structural Integrity Monitoring System
Safespot designs structural monitoring sensors that track the seismic aftereffects of the buildings. It provides details about whether the building has suffered any damage from earthquakes.
The sensors estimate damage by correlating the motion with the building models. It generates a PDF with technical information about the damage. The sensor connects to Telcel SIM for communication and doesn’t depend on the building network.
The battery backup is sufficient for operating for hours even after power failure. It provides seismic safety and structural validation to building managers, builders, and developers.
8. Resident Connect
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Manitoba, Canada
- Solution: Property and Vendor Management Solution
Resident Connect builds a vendor and property management solution. It provides task management and tracking, online lease/renting applications, financial accounting systems for managers and owners, and property listing.
The vendor management solution streamlines operations like service management, online payments, daily disbursements, task tracking, and management. The cloud-based residential management system records all the payment information automatically in the system’s ledger and ensures easy tracking and monitoring.
9. Parkezi
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Solution: Intelligent Car Park Management
Parkezi builds an intelligent system that streamlines parking automation and management. It addresses the challenge of lost tickets and complex user interfaces of parking meters. The startup offers paid parking, two-way parking, and one-way parking.
Its product range includes Express Pay, which provides convenient access to drivers from their vehicles and is fit for most parking requirements. Parkezi also builds Step & Pay for lift wells and foyers, which comes with a prepayment feature. The Scan & Go is a self-contained system for entry and exit access and also comes in a mini version. It is appropriate for limited space areas.
The cloud-based software platform uses automatic number recognition (ANPR) technology to ensure security and reporting efficiency. It also tracks parking usage, minimizes waiting times, and improves traffic flows.
The contactless parking solutions are suitable for commercial parking, airports, shopping centers, business/ commercial/ residential complexes, small businesses, and short-term parking.
10. Heatmanager
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Reutlingen, Germany
- Solution: Smart Radiator Management System
Heatmanager provides a platform that saves the heating energy of buildings by optimizing their usage. The IoT-powered platform uses LoRaWan to connect to multiple thermostats and sensors placed in buildings, offices, corridors, common rooms, and more. This sensor collects all radiator usage scenarios and the platform maps the data of those scenarios.
It ensures that smart radiators adapt to the actual usage of the rooms and buildings. Commercial buildings, care facilities, administrative buildings, and industrial parks use the platform to save resources cost, optimize energy usage by thermostats, and achieve climate targets.
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