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Gropyus plans to use robots to help rebuild Ukraine better and faster
Construction tech startup Groypus has raised $100 million to scale up its factory that uses robots to make buildings 30% faster than traditional methods.
And when his Ukrainian wife’s home country was brutally invaded by Russia, he knew he was on the right track with his latest endeavor — a construction startup that prefabricates buildings using robots. Now Fuhrmann, who previously co-founded online food ordering giant Delivery Hero, plans to help rebuild Ukraine’s homes, and as of this week his new startup, Gropyus, had raised a $100 million equity investment round to do it, as well as scale across Germany, initially. “In 2019, my co-founder [Philipp Erler, former CIO of Zalando] and I sat together and said, ‘Hey, what would be a bigger problem to solve than delivering pizza and fashion?’ I ran into a guy who was in construction, and I thought this is not a very efficient industry.”
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