Geovation Scotland: Scaling retrofit innovation with GreenFlip.
Geovation Scotland is the only support organisation specifically created for startups innovating in Land, Property and Location technology in Scotland.
In the face of mounting climate pressures and a rapidly evolving built environment, Geovation Scotland is supporting innovation from early stage to scaling, through building a vibrant community, facilitating connections and our annual accelerator programme.
At BE-ST Fest 2025, the theme of Scaling Solutions calls for practical, replicable change, and Geovation Scotland offers a compelling model for how real-world change can be achieved through collaboration and data-driven innovation.
Our bespoke accelerator programme is tailored to the needs of each cohort we support, ensuring our material remains relevant and meaningful, and that we as a support organisation stay up to date on emerging tools and trends. In doing so, we aim to ensure our businesses mature and scale at a sustainable pace. Our current cohort is no exception to this, and we have been working with them since July to understand their business, ambitions and goals for the next 12 months.
One example from our current cohort is GreenFlip, a company aiming to address the challenge of retrofitting homes at scale. With millions of UK homes still cold, inefficient and expensive to heat, decarbonisation is stuck at just 1% annually. GreenFlip founders – Amandeep Singh Kalra and Thomas Quiroga – are out to change the economics of retrofit.
GreenFlip joined Cohort 7 of the Geovation Scotland accelerator with their AI-powered platform that analyses housing stock, identifies properties with the highest retrofit potential and packages them into investable portfolios. This gives asset managers, housing associations and others involved in property greater clarity of the options available to them. This in turn reduces associated risks, drives decarbonisation and delivers benefits to both residents and investors alike.
By integrating geospatial data from Ordnance Survey and land and property data from Registers of Scotland, GreenFlip is building a scalable solution that turns retrofit from a fragmented process into a strategic investment opportunity. Their goals during the Geovation Scotland accelerator are many – launch an Minimum Viable Product (MVP), secure pilot customers and raise a pre-seed round.
Beyond that, Amandeep told us: “Our mission is to help decarbonise 1 million homes a year because that's the pace UK needs to hit 2050 targets. We are starting with single-family homes, but our vision is to become the go-to platform for sustainable real estate investment across asset types globally. Beyond the UK, our growth strategy includes entering EU markets next, with Germany as our first step, before expanding more widely across Europe.”
Considering their participation in the Geovation Scotland
Accelerator programme, Amandeep reflected: “Being part of Geovation Scotland has been transformational for us.
The programme has given us the tools, data, expertise and credibility to start moving from prototype to a scalable product. On top of that there is an incredible and supportive community which we are proud to be part of.”
GreenFlip’s journey through the Geovation Scotland programme shows that net zero is achievable when innovation is grounded in data, shaped by experience, and designed to scale. It’s not only about the climate, but also creating economic sustainability, healthier homes, and a built environment that works for everyone. We’re thrilled to be bringing our experiences of working with GreenFlip and our multi-sector alumni to BE-ST Fest 2025, so we may be part of the conversations that shape the next phase of scaling solutions throughout Scotland.
Author: Amber Isaacs, Startup Community Engagement Manager, Geovation Scotland