Building your dream home can be a long and tedious journey. For those starting with a vacant plot, a simple house construction can take a full year easily. Even those buying a newly constructed home or apartment typically need to wait for a few months for entire interiors to be completed.

Homes are also typically the most expensive asset that most of us purchase in our lifetimes. Homeowners typically spend 85-90% of their overall budget for their dream homes on the basic structure, without counting for furniture and other interior fixtures.

While the home construction market has historically been untouched by modern technology, a bunch of tech-enabled startups in recent years have emerged with the promise to help homeowners realise their dream homes faster and at lower costs. Even if 10-minute deliveries are not possible in this industry, many of these startups are promising to use technology to shrink construction times by as much as 40%, resulting in both lower costs and faster delivery of a dream home.

Many of these startups have so far targeted end-users or homeowners themselves. But now, a new generation of B2B tech startups are targeting contractors. These startups use technology to help contractors accurately predict the time and resources required for any project, manage manpower and materials, and optimise their asset utilization, which in turn leads to faster and more effective completion of projects.

Below, we list five young Indian tech-enabled B2B startups that are simplifying the process of home construction and disrupting this space through innovation:

IBO

IBO is a tech-enabled omni-channel platform that focuses on providing everything that a home builder would need under one roof – from paints, tiles, fittings and fixtures to even tools and everything in between. The start-up uses technology to create simpler, hassle-free, and meaningful shopping experiences for its customers and it offers them an enhanced product catalogue and complete transparency in pricing. It also allows customers to buy their desired items or materials through online (mobile app or website) or offline, via their physical stores. Their target buyer is usually retailers, contractors, technicians, architects, and homeowners.

YantraLive

YantraLive is a B2B platform for Heavy Machinery Equipment and Parts catering to Infra firms, Equipment owners, and Service workshops. YantraLive redefines heavy equipment ownership by building industry-first solutions to trade pre-owned equipment, helping owners maintain their equipment by supplying the right parts and services on time. The start up’s mission is to eliminate the downtime or idle time of heavy equipment through technology-led Innovations. It is also building an ecosystem for heavy equipment-related solutions. The founding team of YantraLive includes serial entrepreneurs and the alumni of IIMs and NITs.

Infra.Market

Infra.Market is a B2B technology company that aims to disrupt the way construction and real-estate companies procure material for their projects. The company ties up with contract manufacturers and gets them to utilize their idle capacity for manufacturing of products under Infra.Market’s own brand, which it then sells to large infrastructure companies and retail outlets.

OfBusiness

 OfBusiness is a tech-enabled platform that facilitates raw material procurement and credit for SMEs  focused on the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. By understanding SME’s buying behaviour, the platform offers products at better prices and a competitive timeline. Some of the key raw materials available include- metals, chemicals, polymers, agri commodities, petrochemicals and building materials. OfBusiness also provides SMEs access to cash flow-based financing for buying raw materials through its NBFC ‘Oxyzo Financial Services’.

Zetwerk

Zetwerk is a global manufacturing network that maximises efficiency, quality and value. The platform aims to help customers reduce costs of existing and new production parts, optimise the number of suppliers and execute high quality production faster.

Zetwerk is a partner to leading players in precision parts, capital goods and consumer goods categories, offering a full spectrum of manufacturing services – from custom-made components to mass production, from quality certification to inventory and supply chain management.