Litehaus raises €1.46M pre-seed to build home-building platform

About five years ago, all Thibolt Lunai and his wife Simi wanted to build a dream house in Portugal, where they both live now.

But instead of what they faced is a broken arrangement. “Fourteen months delay, 20% of the budget outdoors and the endless pressure of managing more than 10 subcontractors,” Thibault recalled. They bought the land in December 2021, received a construction license in early 2022 and started building that year. “It was supposed to end in February 2024,” he said. However, it is May 2025, and the house is not yet done.

“We understood,” he added, “If we are fighting it, there are several million people.”

So Thibault, he himself has launched a serial founder and entrepreneur and Simi, a consultant and a founder also LighthouseAn organization that emphasizes landowners and property developers to help build houses in a more efficient and sustainable way. It dealt with the need for a pressure in both the United States and the European market: the ability to build affordable homes.

Lathaus, which was launched early last year, called himself “Uber of construction”, saying Thibolt that the company just wanted to connect all the fragmented parts of the home-building process. It matches the landowners and property developers with other professionals such as construction companies, architects, contractors and interior designers. The company allows users to track the expenses, adjust the schedule with the tenant workers, and to track the progress of the building in real time.

“As a strategy to go to a market, we have decided to concentrate on the construction of modular, our 30% cheaper, 40% faster and 60% more sustainable construction,” Thibault said that it compares 90% of waste and 50% less CO2 emissions with Traditional Testing construction.

According to the pitchbook, the moduler construction space includes US-based genosco modular and Flumorfelt and India-based scale prefabs.

Lighthouse network has at least one US construction company as it shows its spread in the country further. At this point, it is focusing on “Europe’s rapid growing construction technology startup”, Thiblt said.

Also, the European construction industry may use further innovation. In the United States, investors have pour a few billion dollars in growing construction technology and there are many places for the European technology industry.

Investors are clearly agreed here and throughout the pond. Last week, Lithaus announced a € 1.46 million pre-beer round, led by the United Kingdom’s Cornerstone VC, with the participation of an Explorer Fund in Lithaus Portugal’s largest private equity fund; Cluster Group, a Luxembourgish Family Office; And angel investor Pascal Levi, here’s a partner of Long Journey Venture’s initiative in the United States

Rodney Apia, managing partner of the cornerstone VC, said, “Housing deficit across Europe has created a crisis, housing home ownership has increased the cost of living as it goes out of reach.” “When I first met Thibault and Simi, I was attacked in their compulsory view: Build a house easy to buy a home, making the construction industry catalyst to bring greater transparency, durability, quality and home-building process.”

Thebault called the fundraising journey “intense”. He said that he and Simi knew their main investors over the years through mutual friends. Thibault, a resident of France, is the founder of an immersed gaming studio in Portugal, but he has also invested in numerous organizations in France and New York -based farms 50 partners and Origins, respectively. Prior to that, he worked in a French mining company and on Green Tech.

Meanwhile Simi was born in Nigeria and grew up in London. She operated a contemporary art gallery, which was a well -being brand for women colorful women, and a consultant and strategist for law and various African organizations.

“I always wanted to create a business that changed people’s lives,” Simi told TechCrunch. “Providing affordable homes on a scale is not just a market opportunity – it’s the most meaningful way we can create a deep, permanent effect.”

He is now in charge of marketing, communication and design in Little; Her husband operates Thibault, funding, business development and technology.

“When it was time to raise it, we were quickly with the partners who already knew us and shared our attitude from the first day,” Thiblt said. He said the new capital will be used to scale the money and to appoint more talent in engineering, products, marketing and management.

It is quite interesting that Thibault and Simi created a company, more than a million euros were raised and they had two children, before their home, a process that started working four years ago ended.

“We’re actually going next month,” Thiblt said. “We go after a 14 month delay in the next month. This is the pain point we are trying to solve for millions of people.”