Basketball players Manu Ginóbili and Pepe Sánchez were joined by Gastón Remy, former CEO of Dow, and a “Heart team“of entrepreneurs and former managers in a project that has just received a seed investment round of 3 million dollars.

This is Nuqlea, a digital construction platform, which seeks to cover since sale of building materialsat the service of the professionals of the corporation, passing through funding or training for bricklayers.

The founding team includes Remy, Sánchez and is completed by Pablo Silveri, also a former Dow; Inés Cura, a technology entrepreneur; Hernán Sánchez, a reference in the world of logistics; Bernardo Cassagne, founder of the Tanoira Cassagne studio; and Julio Quel, Francisco Brañas and Leonardo Dimieri, digital entrepreneurs.

And among those who have put the funds for the project there are the Newtopia VC fund, with a majority stake; other venture capital, such as Nova (of Saint Gobain), Grupo Murchison and Catalysts; Manu Ginobili and Eduardo Novillo Astrada.

The set of investors is completed with Darío Maffei (Chief Business Officer Global of Índigo) and Matías Woloski (co-founder of Auth0, one of the Argentine unicorns), references of companies in the sector and businessmen and entrepreneurs who have invested in their own right. personal.

The startup is a market “B2B2C” (business to business to consumera form of e-commerce where businesses access customers through an intermediary, but can interact directly with customers under their own brand.

End users and specialized or professional operators access this platform construction products (they already offer more than 20,000 of 44 brands); services of the logistics for countrywide delivery e financing with different payment methods.

Among the brands already offered are ArcelorMittal, Cerámica Cañuelas, Ceramica Fanielli, Ceresita, Durlock Eternit (Etex), Ferrum, FV, Hydros, Isover, Megaflex, Peisa, Piazza, Roca, Rotoplas, Saint Gobain, Schneider Electric, Sekurit and Weber ., Moreover.

The site is about to launch a tool so that users can calculate in real time how many materials are needed for each project and quote them. And in the future the idea is to add a training space and job bank for workers in the sector.

The idea is to create the first digital ecosystem for professionals and suppliers in the sector, from construction companies, architects, master builders, entrepreneurs, SMEs, to national and international companies.

According to Sacha Spitz, co-founder of Newtopia, the construction is “a very backward industry throughout Latin America. The construction market is $ 179 billion a year in the region and only 3.7% is digitized. “

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