Litehaus Revolutionizes Home Building with Modular Tech

Building a dream home should be an exciting journey, but for Thibault and Simi Launay, it turned into a frustrating ordeal marked by delays, budget overruns, and complex coordination challenges. After purchasing land in Portugal in late 2020 and facing a construction timeline that stretched over three years, they realized their struggles were not unique. This insight sparked the creation of Litehaus, a startup aiming to revolutionize home building by making it more efficient, transparent, and sustainable.

Litehaus positions itself as the “Uber of construction,” connecting landowners and property developers with a network of architects, contractors, interior designers, and construction companies. This platform addresses the fragmentation in the home-building process by offering real-time cost tracking, schedule coordination, and progress monitoring. Such integration reduces the administrative burden on homeowners and developers alike.

A key differentiator for Litehaus is its focus on modular construction, which enables building homes 30% cheaper, 40% faster, and with 60% less environmental impact compared to traditional methods. Modular construction not only accelerates timelines but also significantly reduces waste and carbon emissions, addressing both economic and ecological concerns in the housing market.

The European construction industry, often criticized for lagging in tech adoption compared to the US, stands to benefit greatly from innovations like Litehaus. With a recent €1.46 million pre-seed funding round led by Cornerstone VC and Explorer Fund, Litehaus is poised to scale its platform and expand its talent pool in engineering, product development, marketing, and operations.

Founders Thibault and Simi bring diverse backgrounds to Litehaus—Thibault with experience in immersive gaming, angel investing, and green tech, and Simi with a history in consulting, art, and wellness entrepreneurship. Their combined vision is to make home building as simple and accessible as buying a home, tackling the housing affordability crisis head-on.

Litehaus’s platform exemplifies how technology can transform traditional industries by enhancing transparency, sustainability, and user experience. For millions facing the pain points of home construction delays and cost overruns, solutions like Litehaus offer a promising path forward. As they prepare to move into their own long-awaited home, the Launays embody the change they wish to see in the construction world.