Juan Carlos Sanchez

Principal at Imad Ventures, CVC of Nesma & Partners (KSA) 🏗️ AI & Physical AI 🦾

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
18
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13
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8y
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Portfolio

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Investor
2026
At Kaya, we’re transforming the construction industry with smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions. Founded in 2022, Kaya is a supply chain intelligence platform powered by advanced AI and automation. Our mission is simple: help construction teams deliver projects on time, on budget, and with less hassle. With Kaya, teams gain real-time insights, improved collaboration, and streamlined workflows, reducing delays and making every project a success. We’re not just solving today’s challenges – we’re building a future where construction works seamlessly and sustainably, in harmony with humanity and the planet. Join us as we lead the way in smarter construction. Together, we can build a better future.
Investor
2026
The AI-native Risk Lifecycle Management™ platform for the Built-World, on a mission to help contractors, owners, and developers better identify, assess, compare, and manage risk at all stages of the project lifecycle.
Investor
2026
Neuron Factorys mission is to build an agentic construction intelligence platform powered by a proprietary knowledge graph — capturing, connecting, and reasoning across the full spectrum of construction project data, starting with preconstruction. Where existing tools store documents in isolation, Neuron Factory extracts entities, relationships, and context from every file type a GC touches — tender specs, drawings, RFQs, emails, BOQs, SOWs, schedules — and assembles them into a structured, queryable graph. That graph becomes the intelligence substrate that powers AI agents, answers estimator questions with source citations, flags conflicts, and enables cross-project benchmarking at a scale no team of humans could manually achieve. Neuron Factory was founded by Zaid Kahn (former Head of AI Infrastructure at Microsoft) and Salil Pandit (former senior engineer at Google and Waymo). Our team brings experience from Autodesk, Procore, Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Salesforce and BAE Systems, and our advisory board spans construction leadership (Cordeel Group, AECOM) and world-class AI expertise — including the leader of Microsoft Researchs lab, alongside senior figures from Waymo and Shopify.
Investor
May 2025
Gravis Robotics turns any earthmoving machine into a robot. Unlock superhuman productivity with plug-and-play autonomy.
Investor
2025
Procurement Intelligence for Construction Teams. For organisations that run complex, high-stakes tenders, TruBuild brings Procurement Intelligence, a modular suite designed to handle every aspect of complex tender evaluation.
Investor
2025
Track3D is the leader in Reality Intelligence, revolutionizing construction monitoring with cutting-edge AI-driven technology. Our platform empowers stakeholders with comprehensive progress tracking, deviation detection, and seamless integration of all reality capture data. We enable smarter decision-making, enhanced operational efficiency, and robust project oversight from start to finish!
Investor & Senior Advisor
Feb 2024
Electron Green provides a unique and simple route to low-cost solar electricity for businesses across Europe. We provide a partnership and business model that makes a big difference to the bottom line without disrupting business or existing energy contracts. In the UK alone, only 1% of commercial and industrial rooftops have solar. Yet the benefits are huge: reductions in carbon emissions, EPC improvement and sustainability value, and – especially in today’s economic climate – big savings in electricity costs. The Electron Green team has years of expert experience in renewable energy, having previously built a portfolio of over 7,000 rooftop solar assets on residential properties, becoming the UK’s largest solar business in the UK in just two years. Now, we are on a mission to save your business money and inspire a nationwide switch on to solar.
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2022
Modulous has created the first globally scalable model for the design and delivery of homes. Our goal is to eliminate the global deficit of 500 million homes while improving industry efficiency, designing out waste and raising quality and performance standards. Our TESSA software delivers highly engineered design solutions, detailed cost information and accurate programmes at concept stage, completely reshaping the risk/reward equation for landowners and developers. It also ensures best-in-class sustainability standards, with a reporting tool that enables benchmarking against ESG criteria. Designs are based on our proprietary Kit of Parts, which is a series of sub-assemblies procured from the established supply chain and brought together by our logistics partner to create modular homes in facilities local to site. We are now developing alternative assemblies to suit the global marketplace. By using leading manufacturers to produce our Kit of Parts, we remove the need for dedicated factories, and we engage and upskill local labour in the assembly process. Our asset-light methodology cuts fixed capital investment, transforms working capital requirements and democratises home building, aligning the interests of all key stakeholders in the construction process.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor Mentor
Aug 2022
We are Carbon13, the venture builder for the climate emergency. We will select and support thousands of entrepreneurs to build ventures each with the potential to reduce or remove at least 10 million tonnes of CO2e per annum once at scale. We have invested in 93 innovative carbon emissions-mitigating startups since 2021, which have a current market value of £290 million, and are collectively working towards 500 million tonnes of emissions reduction by 2040. Our ventures are working across sectors such as agriculture, renewable energy, the built environment, food, and materials. Notable alumni include Kita, Biozeroc, Infyos, Nium, Bluemethane, Samudra Oceans, Cocoon Carbon, Tierra Foods, AED Energy, Preoptima and Kestrix. Whether youre a founder, investor or supporter of startups, learn more and join our community on carbonthirteen.com.
Angel Investor
2022
Zelt is a next generation platform for people operations. With Zelt, enterprises can manage their whole workforce across the employee lifecycle in a single system, enabling them to simplify and automate people processes across HR, Finance and IT functions dramatically. Zelt’s boasts a broad range of applications such as onboarding, holidays, payroll, expenses, reviews and asset tracking, which integrate with each other out-of-the-box and are running on top of powerful platform services for workflow automation, permissioning, reporting and soon AI-based autonomous Digital Workers.
Co-lead Investor
Nov 2019
WITRAC helps companies be more efficient and competitive thanks to innovative technological solutions that connect and give visibility to the value chain of its clients. Able to identify, locate, measure and control wirelessly and in real time, any asset, anywhere, WITRAC fabricates its own hardware and software based on the IoT and AI technology, in order to satisfy the industry's tracing needs. Its digitalization and automatization solutions combine multiple connectivity devices and protocols with a management platform, in order to generate data and transform it into useful information and valuable insights. Please visit http://www.witrac.io/ or email us at info@witrac.es for more info.
Co-lead Investor & shadow Board Member
Nov 2019
WITRAC helps companies be more efficient and competitive thanks to innovative technological solutions that connect and give visibility to the value chain of its clients. Able to identify, locate, measure and control wirelessly and in real time, any asset, anywhere, WITRAC fabricates its own hardware and software based on the IoT and AI technology, in order to satisfy the industry's tracing needs. Its digitalization and automatization solutions combine multiple connectivity devices and protocols with a management platform, in order to generate data and transform it into useful information and valuable insights. Please visit http://www.witrac.io/ or email us at info@witrac.es for more info.
Lead Investor & shadow Board Member
Oct 2019
ShapeDo’s Drawing Comparison Software is designed to enable control over construction drawing changes. Fully review all engineering changes in realistic time-frames, and leverage visual communications and easy project controls to control every aspect of a project.
mid stageConstruction
Lead Investor
Oct 2019
ShapeDo’s Drawing Comparison Software is designed to enable control over construction drawing changes. Fully review all engineering changes in realistic time-frames, and leverage visual communications and easy project controls to control every aspect of a project.
mid stageConstruction
Vice President, Investments
Mar 2018
Goldacre is a specialist investment firm with extensive expertise in digital infrastructure and technology for the real estate industry. Applying a hands-on approach, Goldacre's focus has been delivering consistently exceptional returns for our investors. Drawing on extensive professional experience on the ground, we build, own, operate and manage critical digital infrastructure assets such as data centres, securing their long-term profitability. We also invest in companies focused on technology for the smart built environment, including high-potential opportunities identified through our RElab venture programme. "Our deep market knowledge and established networks provide the foundations for successful investment" Our deep market knowledge and established networks provide the foundations for successful investment – helping us pinpoint the opportunities that have the greatest potential to transform not only the real estate sector, but the way we live, work and use property. We are partner-owned and proud to be part of the Noé Group.
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2026
Investor
2026
At Kaya, we’re transforming the construction industry with smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions. Founded in 2022, Kaya is a supply chain intelligence platform powered by advanced AI and automation. Our mission is simple: help construction teams deliver projects on time, on budget, and with less hassle. With Kaya, teams gain real-time insights, improved collaboration, and streamlined workflows, reducing delays and making every project a success. We’re not just solving today’s challenges – we’re building a future where construction works seamlessly and sustainably, in harmony with humanity and the planet. Join us as we lead the way in smarter construction. Together, we can build a better future.
Investor
2026
The AI-native Risk Lifecycle Management™ platform for the Built-World, on a mission to help contractors, owners, and developers better identify, assess, compare, and manage risk at all stages of the project lifecycle.
Investor
2026
Neuron Factorys mission is to build an agentic construction intelligence platform powered by a proprietary knowledge graph — capturing, connecting, and reasoning across the full spectrum of construction project data, starting with preconstruction. Where existing tools store documents in isolation, Neuron Factory extracts entities, relationships, and context from every file type a GC touches — tender specs, drawings, RFQs, emails, BOQs, SOWs, schedules — and assembles them into a structured, queryable graph. That graph becomes the intelligence substrate that powers AI agents, answers estimator questions with source citations, flags conflicts, and enables cross-project benchmarking at a scale no team of humans could manually achieve. Neuron Factory was founded by Zaid Kahn (former Head of AI Infrastructure at Microsoft) and Salil Pandit (former senior engineer at Google and Waymo). Our team brings experience from Autodesk, Procore, Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Salesforce and BAE Systems, and our advisory board spans construction leadership (Cordeel Group, AECOM) and world-class AI expertise — including the leader of Microsoft Researchs lab, alongside senior figures from Waymo and Shopify.
2025
Investor
May 2025
Gravis Robotics turns any earthmoving machine into a robot. Unlock superhuman productivity with plug-and-play autonomy.
Investment Principal
Jan 2025
We are passionate about backing the next generation of construction companies that are leveraging technology to build a more sustainable and efficient future.
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