Legacy and Ento team up to solve major challenges in Commercial Real Estate.

Copenhagen, January 25th 2024 – Legacy, the leading carbon accounting software in Denmark, and Ento, the software company specializing in energy optimization of building portfolios with artificial intelligence, are proud to announce a strategic partnership aimed at addressing two pressing challenges in Commercial Real Estate: Expediting data collection and providing actionable insights to optimize energy consumption.

The collaboration carries strategic benefits for customers of Ento and Legacy:

• Faster access to data, achieving the highest level of carbon reporting.
• Combining data for common and tenant areas, ensuring full data coverage and insights on the entire portfolio.
• Identify buildings performing below benchmarks in Legacy and utilizing insights from Ento to optimize energy consumption and document savings.

The combined solution is already used by the real estate partner DEAS Group and their client Velliv Ejendomme A/S. Here, the new partnership between Ento and Legacy enhances their operational efficiency of managing the property portfolio.

Kim Hoppe Revald, Senior Sustainability Manager, Velliv Ejendomme, says:

“We are excited about the collaboration between Ento and Legacy. This partnership not only enhances Velliv's carbon reporting capabilities but also ensures the best possible energy optimization potential for our extensive property portfolio. We are committed to leveraging this synergy for the benefit of our many tenants and the environment.”

“We emphasize offering our investors flexible options and assemble the optimal solution for each individual investor that suits their specific needs when it comes to gathering data and insights on energy consumption and reporting. It has been a pleasure to assist Velliv in finding the right match specifically for them. Ento and Legacy are truly two innovative solutions in the market, and we look forward to the collaboration,” continues Peter Weitzmann, Director, Energy Management and Data, DEAS Group.

Multiple bottom lines

With a range of new proptech coming to market, interest has been especially high for solutions benefitting multiple bottom lines, adds PropTech Denmark CEO, Michael Ambjørn, who celebrates the new collaboration:

“In the age of AI, we’re all casting about for concrete and practical examples of tech that has the potential to combine, scale – and address urgent challenges – all at the same time. With regulatory pressure to both account for carbon – and reduce it – PropTech Denmark member collaborations like this are both essential and exciting.” 

In a joint statement

“We’re thrilled to collaborate with Ento. Our partnership enables our mutual real estate clients to better understand their emissions, enhance their carbon reporting, and gain insights to help them decarbonise their portfolios." – Barry Trouth, CEO at Legacy

"We’re excited to work with Legacy! This collaboration has been one of those projects where customers are standing in line – because we solve a real pain together by providing reliable energy consumption data easily accessible for carbon accounting." – Malte Frederiksen, CCO at Ento

For further inquiries, please contact:

• Lasse Ravn Makne, CCO at Legacy, Lasse@wearelegacy.dk, +45 25 68 12 23
• Malte Frederiksen, CCO at Ento, Malte@ento.ai, +45 81 92 72 13
• Anne Louise Fisker Nielsen, Senior Communication Advisor at DEAS, alf@deas.dk, + 45 27 90 12 22

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