Two industrial engineers and an aeronautical engineer are the founders behind Aldara, a startup that has set out to reinvent the figure of the property manager. “We were looking for sectors to digitize and we thought about real estate because of its many small inefficiencies,” explains Daniel Carmona, who serves as executive director of this emerging company established in September 2022. Dani Torramilas and Miquel Llobet complete the founding trio.
Aldara was incubated by the business accelerator Y Combinator, which also provided 46,000 euros of initial investment. Its promoters have developed their own program that offers information on expenses, delinquencies or bank balance, among others; allows you to see the status of applications in progress, as well as vote virtually, without having to attend the neighborhood meeting in person. Carmona defines the company as “a modern property manager, which offers an agile and transparent service thanks to digitalization and the application of engineering in everything we do.”
They are addressed to “any property owner.” They started with properties in the city of Barcelona, ??where the startup is based, and expanded throughout its metropolitan area. Thanks to video calls, entrepreneurs have started operating in Madrid and will soon start knocking on the doors of farms in other areas of the country. Internationalization is also just around the corner because the co-founders intend to open to other markets next year.
To finance its growth plans, Aldara has closed an investment round of 2.7 million euros. The operation has been led by Y Combinator, the Spanish venture capital KFund and various financial angels. The injection of capital will allow them to double their current staff – made up of ten people –, publicize the project and invest in new functionalities and processes, such as a supplier marketplace, incident updates in real time, asynchronous voting and improvement of internal operations so that any procedure is as instantaneous as possible. Carmona highlights that a good part of the staff is made up of engineers.
Aldara, who was originally called Nestor, manages nearly 200 farms and the co-founders have set a goal of exceeding a thousand this year. In 2023, in less than half a year of operation, the company had a turnover of close to one million euros.