Investment signals growing focus on governed data infrastructure as foundation for AI adoption across AEC
Nemetschek Group has invested in Dawex, a Paris-based company that develops data exchange infrastructure for managing how organisations share, trace and govern access to data. The deal, announced at VivaTech in Paris, sees Nemetschek join existing investor Banque des Territoires (part of the Caisse des Dépôts group), while Dawex’s co-founders retain full control over strategy, governance and operations. Financial terms were not disclosed beyond the characterisation as a capital entry.
Dawex operates in the “data ecosystem” space, providing technology that allows organisations to exchange data with traceability, compliance controls and audit trails built in. The company works across more than 15 sectors globally, but the Nemetschek investment places particular emphasis on construction, where project delivery depends on data flowing between large numbers of organisations using different systems and standards.
The rationale from Nemetschek’s side is that governed data exchange will become a foundational requirement as the AEC industry adopts AI more broadly, particularly agentic AI systems that need reliable, traceable data sources to function effectively. Yves Padrines, CEO of Nemetschek Group, said the company sees trusted data exchange as “a foundational layer for the next decade of innovation in AEC/O, from collaborative design to construction intelligence and future agentic AI workflows.” He pointed to the combination of Dawex’s exchange infrastructure with Nemetschek’s position in Open BIM data and workflow collaboration as a route toward allowing construction stakeholders to treat their data as a strategic asset.
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Dawex is also involved in an emerging European standardisation effort, the CEN trusted data transactions standard, which aims to establish common rules for how data is exchanged across organisations and borders.
For Dawex, the investment supports global expansion, with particular focus on the German market, and strengthens its position in serving the construction sector’s data exchange requirements. Co-founder Fabrice Tocco described the investment as “a powerful validation of both Dawex technology and vision,” while co-founder Laurent Lafaye noted that as AI adoption accelerates, “the proper technology to accelerate, streamline and secure data exchanges internally and externally has become equally essential.”
