Optiml to Showcase the Optiml Decision Layer at NYC Climate Week's Sustainable Real Estate Forum

Opened by the COP31 Presidency, the Forum will bring together global leaders to advance investment-ready climate action across the built environment

NEW YORK , Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Real estate accounts for nearly 40% of global energy-related emissions — and the investment decisions that will determine whether that changes are being made right now. Optiml, the Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) platform, will showcase its new decision layer for investment and asset managers, owners and advisors at the Sustainable Real Estate Forum during NYC Climate Week.

Opened by the COP31 Presidency, the Forum will convene senior leaders across real estate, institutional investment, finance, policy, sustainability and technology, including representatives from Optiml, INREV, RICS, Tishman Speyer, UNEP Finance Initiative and the GlobalABC.

The platform is already deployed at institutional scale. Empira Group, part of Partners Group, one of Europe's most sophisticated residential investment managers with a portfolio GDV of EUR 14 billion and $10 billion in AUM, selected Optiml to power its Transition-to-Green strategy. "Digital decision intelligence is now essential to delivering both resilient returns and credible decarbonisation, starting as early as receiving a first investment memo," said Torsten Bergmann, VP Investment Advisory at Empira.

Making the transition investable

At the Forum, Optiml will demonstrate how the Optiml REDI helps fund, asset, investment and transaction managers protect NAV and yield, optimise Capex and IRR while meeting sustainable transition requirements in one decision-making layer, replacing static reports and spreadsheets that have historically made this analysis manual, slow and difficult to defend to investment committees.

In one recent engagement, the platform showed with engineering-grade precision that an optimised transition pathway and underlying measures alone could drive a roughly 90% variance in Green Capex across an entire portfolio spanning 11 countries — the kind of hidden financial upside that has historically gone undetected in spreadsheet-based analysis.

The Forum will also launch a new Trillion-Dollar Study, developed with RICS, INREV, the European Mortgage Federation, Optiml and PATRIZIA — examining the investment, financing, valuation and policy frameworks required to unlock capital at the scale needed for the global real estate transition.

"The industry does not need more backward-looking reports or audits. It needs a transparent way to understand which assets are exposed, what action is required, when, at which cost and impact on returns. That is how climate ambition becomes an investable intervention that ICs, lenders and investors can sign off," said Nico Dehnert, Co-Founder & CCO at Optiml.

Decision intelligence in practice

The Optiml REDI enables users to automatically upload, structure and validate entire real estate data rooms — including valuations, rent rolls, EPCs, due diligence reports and PDFs — removing one of the biggest bottlenecks in investment decision-making and creating an audit-ready data foundation at scale.

The platform models regulatory exposure, EPC and compliance targets, brown discount avoidance and green premium pathways — and stress-tests strategies against changing macroeconomic factors including inflation, energy prices, construction costs and carbon pricing. Data and results remain traceable, transparent and under the user's control at all times.

Ralf Morrisse, Head of Transactions at Empira, said: "Optiml brings together CapEx planning, capital efficiency and return optimisation, alongside the decarbonisation of individual buildings and entire portfolios — supporting our teams end-to-end across the full building lifecycle, starting at the transaction stage."

"Green Capex is no longer an ESG workstream," said Dr. Evan Petkov, Co-Founder & CEO at Optiml. "It has become a company-wide capital allocation, risk management and value creation exercise. The need to validate strategies, outline financial impact and defend decisions to investment committees, lenders and stakeholders has become a crucial capability."

About Optiml

Optiml is a Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) platform for fund, asset, investment and transaction managers and consultants. It combines real estate data, agentic workflows, financial modelling, regulatory analysis, physics-based energy simulation and deterministic optimisation to help investors make more robust, transparent and financially defensible decisions. Optiml is backed by leading global venture capital investors including Innovation Endeavors (the VC fund of ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt), Planet A Ventures, BitStone Capital, Kompas VC and The Bau Ventures.

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