# Juan Nieto Villamandos

> Juan Nieto Villamandos is a seed investor at Cemex Ventures backing Construction and Manufacturing. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cemex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cemex-ventures)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juannietovillamandos/
- Website: https://www.cemexventures.com/about-us/

Juan Nieto Villamandos is a seed investor at Cemex Ventures focused on Construction and Manufacturing. Zacua Ventures is an early stage global VC specialized in investing in the Built Environment sector. We work with exceptional founders from the conception of the idea and work to make them successful. We are backed by top tier corporates across the globe and help startups tap into their expertise to build best in breed companies

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Construction | 3 | 60% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 40% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 40% |
| Robotics | 1 | 20% |
| Security | 1 | 20% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 1 | 20% |
| Singapore | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wenti Labs | Wenti Labs provides an AI agent that helps construction teams capture, track, and report defects and safety issues. The platform lets users snap photos on site and have structured reports automatically generated without manual data entry. It integrates with existing communication and project coordination tools to keep discussions, changes, anddecisions in sync. The system supports role-based access control, configurable data hosting options, and does not train its language models on customer data. It is designed for contractors, developers, and specialist builders who need construction-focused workflows and automated reporting. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2026 |  |
| Gravis Robotics | Gravis Robotics develops retrofit autonomy systems for heavy construction machinery, converting standard excavators and loaders into AI-enabled, semi- or fully-autonomous earthmoving machines. The company installs a rooftop-mounted “Gravis Rack”, a suite of sensors, compute, and automation hardware, along with a touchscreen interface called “GravisSlate,” allowing operators to control equipment manually, with augmented assistance, or automatically. Its system adds capabilities like real-time 3D surveying, terrain-aware excavation, adaptive cycle-time optimization, and remote or on-site control. Gravis serves contractors, rental firms, and equipment fleets seeking to increase throughput, improve safety, and reduce variability on job sites. | $23M | Seed | Nov 28, 2025 |  |
| CemVision | We are re-inventing cement; Replacing everything that’s bad about it with a product that is economical, environmental friendly and technically superior. | $10.9M | Seed | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| Flexnode | Flexnode offers a novel and sustainable data computing, storage, and networking lifecycle solution. | $9M | Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Concrete4Change | Concrete4Change is an R&D company developing technology to utilize and permanently mineralize CO2 in concrete. The company has won awards including the United Nations (UN) Most Innovative Net-Zero Technology - The Climate Challenge Cup at COP26 in Glasgow and the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Award.Concrete4Change is on a mission toremove 2 billion tonnes of CO2 emission in the concrete industry by 2040 - utilizing concrete as the safest form of CO2 sink in the world and turning one of the world's biggest emission problems into an emission solution | $3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Armada Investment AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/armada-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arup Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arup-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aurum Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurum-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BackingMinds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backingminds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Counteract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/counteract) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cemex Ventures

VC Fund · Madrid, Spain

Cemex Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Cemex, that mainly focuses on urban development, new construction trends and technologies, improving connectivity within the construction ecosystem and reinforcing project finance resources. The firm also provides with an open and collaborative platform to lead the evolution of the constructionindustry by engaging startups, entrepreneurs, universities and other stakeholders to shape tomorrow's value ecosystem. It also offers incubator and accelerator services within the construction industry and technology partnerships. Additionally, it provides global and local network to an established startup in the construction ecosystem that will help scale their business.

5 contacts available at Cemex Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cristina Aparicio Maeztu | Venture Capital & Operations Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-aparicio-maeztu |
| Ibon Iribar | Venture Capital Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibon-iribar |
| Juan Carlos Costales Casabona | Venture Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-carlos-costales-casabona |
| Mateo Zimmermann Gonzalez | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mateo-zimmermann-gonzalez |
| Murari Perumalsamy | Venture and Operations Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/murari-perumalsamy |

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## FAQ

### What does Juan Nieto Villamandos invest in?

Juan Nieto Villamandos invests primarily in Construction, Manufacturing and Cloud Computing startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Juan Nieto Villamandos last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Juan Nieto Villamandos closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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