Focus on sustain­ability and digital­i­sation: Wüest Partner acquires majority stake in Signa-Terre and takes over Khephren

On its growth path, the Wüest Partner Group is acquiring a majority stake in Signa-Terre AG and 100% of Khephren AG as of 6 October 2023. With this step, Wüest Partner strengthens its position in the field of holistic sustain­ability solutions and digital products for the real estate industry.

Founded in Geneva in 2008, Signa-Terre AG has success­fully estab­lished itself in the field of collecting and processing energy consumption data from properties and in planning renovation cycles. The team of more than 50 experts stands for a high quality of service and for the competent devel­opment of sustain­ability solutions and software products, including the well-known product ImmoLabel. In recent years, Signa-Terre has been able to win a large number of Swiss real estate owners and managers as customers.

Also founded in Geneva in 2016, Khephren AG, a joint venture between Signa-Terre, Acanthe and BG Ingénieurs Conseils, has made a name for itself by devel­oping a powerful and innov­ative platform. This SaaS appli­cation enables intuitive verifi­cation and management of the financial, technical and energy status of real estate portfolios.

The new combi­nation of different core compe­tencies creates a strong foundation to support real estate industry players even more broadly in the process of decar­bon­i­sation and digital­i­sation. While Khephren contributes valuable skills to the Wüest Partner Software House, Signa-Terre provides know-how regarding energy consumption and environ­mental sustain­ability. In combi­nation with the real estate economic expertise and the existing sustain­ability, data and software expertise of the current Wüest Partner Group, valuable and far-reaching synergies can be realized. The result is a compre­hensive range of services, from detailed analysis of energy consumption and sustain­ability indicators to CO₂ ‑optimized mainte­nance strategies and strategic property and portfolio analyses — all from a single source.

Andreas Bleisch, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wüest Partner, empha­sizes: «These strategic acqui­si­tions not only strengthen our service portfolio in the field of real estate sustain­ability, but also emphasise our presence in Western Switzerland. We look forward to future collab­o­ration with the successful founders of these ventures and their teams, and to the valuable connec­tions that will result for us and our clients.»

Signa-Terre AG will be contin­u­ously led by the two founders Laurent Isoard and Olivier Ouzilou. The estab­lished brand will be pursued in the long term. Khephren AG and its employees will be seamlessly integrated into the Data, Analytics & Technology Division of the Wüest Partner Group. The existing software will be retained and its function­al­ities will be integrated into the product range of the Wüest Partner Group. This will enable Khephren and Wüest Partner clients to benefit from an even more holistic value propo­sition in the future.