Alvéole

What Alvéole does

Alvéole is a Montreal-based private company founded in 2014 that operates a managed rooftop beekeeping and tenant engagement platform for the commercial real estate (CRE) sector. Its core offering is a fully outsourced, year-round amenity service: Alvéole installs and maintains beehives on client rooftops, deploys beekeepers on a roughly three-week cadence to run hands-on workshops (honey extraction, candle making, hive visits, honey tastings, Q&A), and produces approximately 100 jars of building-branded honey per hive annually. The service is delivered as a recurring subscription to building owners and operators, with all field operations handled by Alvéole so that property teams incur no incremental workload.

The company's technology layer extends beyond physical beekeeping. MyHive is a portfolio-wide digital platform for property teams and tenants to plan, promote, and measure events, track participation, and manage honey distribution. Bees also function as passive biodiversity sensors, generating site-level environmental data that feeds directly into sustainability reporting frameworks including GRESB, WELL, LEED, BREEAM, BOMA, and Fitwel. Alvéole has begun extending the product surface with 'Aura,' a standalone AI assistant accessible at aura.alveole.com, and a Nature Sensor product for biodiversity tracking, though disclosed detail on the underlying AI/ML implementation is limited.

Commercially, Alvéole targets enterprise CRE customers across office (primary), retail, multifamily, industrial, and senior housing segments. The customer base includes Blackstone, Hines, Tishman Speyer, Nuveen, BGO, CBRE, JLL, Prologis, AXA Investment Managers, Oxford Properties, QuadReal, Morguard, Generali, Realterm, Veris Residential, and the Embassy of Canada to The Netherlands, with assets deployed across 2,200+ buildings. Disclosed customer outcomes include a 78% tenant satisfaction lift versus building average, a 64% rate of clients expanding to additional buildings within 18 months, and a 3% rent-premium effect attributed to extraordinary amenities. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, employs 101–250 people, and has raised approximately $17.45M across four disclosed funding rounds (2016, 2019, 2022, 2023).

Name

Alvéole

Legal name

Alvéole

Website

https://alveole.buzz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Alvéole is a Montreal-based company that delivers managed rooftop beekeeping programs and the MyHive tenant engagement platform to enterprise commercial real estate owners, operating across 2,200+ office, retail, multifamily, industrial, and senior housing assets with recurring subscription service contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Real Estate Tenant Engagement Services

NAICS

Apiculture (112910)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Apiary Management Services (Contract Beekeeping, Hive Maintenance) (AFAEAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Honey Production & Extraction (AFAEAHAA)

Keywords

• Rooftop beekeeping services
• Tenant engagement programs
• Commercial real estate amenities
• Urban biodiversity programs
• Sustainability data reporting

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Managed Rooftop Beekeeping Services: Full-service rooftop beekeeping program including hive installation, quarterly beekeeper visits for maintenance and workshops, honey extraction, branded honey production, digital platform access, and sustainability reporting. Revenue is recurring as an annual service subscription.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Alvéole installs and manages rooftop beehives for commercial real estate properties, delivering a year-round tenant engagement program. The service includes quarterly beekeeper visits for hive maintenance and hands-on workshops (honey extraction, candle making, honey tastings, hive visits), branded honey production (100+ jars per hive annually), access to the MyHive digital engagement platform for property teams and tenants, and biodiversity data that feeds into GRESB, WELL, LEED, BREEAM, BOMA, and Fitwel sustainability reporting.

Product overview

Alvéole is a tenant engagement platform built around urban rooftop beekeeping. The core offering is the Alvéole Rooftop Beekeeping Program, which combines physical on-site experiences (beekeeping workshops, honey extraction, hive visits) with a digital platform called MyHive for property management, tenant engagement, and sustainability reporting. Additional products include Aura and Nature Sensor. The company targets commercial real estate portfolios across office, retail, multifamily, and industrial segments, offering branded honey, biodiversity data for GRESB reporting, and contributions to WELL, LEED, BOMA, BREEAM, and Fitwel certifications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MyHive: Digital platform for property teams and tenants to manage events, track participation, and follow hive updates
• Aura
• Aura

Products and services

• Alvéole Rooftop Beekeeping Program A fully managed, year-round rooftop beekeeping program for commercial real estate properties. Alvéole installs hives on building rooftops, performs biweekly/quarterly maintenance visits, runs hands-on workshops for tenants (honey extraction, candle making, honey tastings, hive visits), produces branded honey jars, and provides biodiversity data that contributes to GRESB, WELL, LEED, BREEAM, BOMA, and Fitwel certification credits. The program is sold as a recurring annual service to building owners and operators across office, retail, multifamily, industrial, and senior housing segments.
• MyHive Digital tenant engagement and property management platform enabling event planning, participation tracking, beekeeper communication, honey list management, and biodiversity/sustainability reporting across all buildings in a customer's portfolio. Tenants can view event calendars, register for activities, sign up for honey lists, and follow beekeeper updates; property and asset teams gain participation analytics and biodiversity data.
• Aura Product referenced as part of the Alvéole ecosystem, accessible via its own subdomain (aura.alveole.com), combining AI assistant functionality and nature sensor technology for biodiversity tracking.
• Nature Sensor Sensor product referenced in Alvéole's website footer as a nature sensor used for biodiversity tracking as part of the broader product ecosystem.

Quantifiable outcome

• 78% of tenants report higher satisfaction scores than building average
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Shops at SkyviewminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 15 April 2026The Shops at Skyview in Queens, New York hosted 'Planet in Bloom' on April 15, 2026, featuring Alvéole's rooftop beehive project as part of an Earth Day celebration combining K-Pop, urban beekeeping, and community art activities.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Best Bees Company: Best Bees Company is a Boston-based urban beekeeping service that installs, maintains, and manages beehives for commercial properties, residences, and institutions — a near-identical service model to Alvéole's managed rooftop program.
• Bee Downtown: Bee Downtown provides urban beekeeping programs for commercial properties and corporate campuses across the U.S. Southeast, competing head-to-head with Alvéole in the managed rooftop hive category.

Broad incumbents

• HqO: HqO is a tenant experience platform for commercial office buildings offering amenity booking, engagement, and analytics — overlapping with Alvéole's MyHive digital layer as a broader, software-first incumbent.
• VTS: VTS is a leading commercial real estate leasing, asset, and tenant engagement platform used by many of the same institutional owners (CBRE, JLL, BGO, Nuveen) that are Alvéole customers — a broad incumbent in the CRE software stack.
• Rise by RealPage: Rise by RealPage is a resident engagement platform for multifamily properties that, like Alvéole's multifamily segment, uses digital tools to drive community and amenity programming at scale.

Others

• Measurabl: Measurabl is the leading ESG and sustainability data platform for commercial real estate, used by many institutional owners to manage GRESB and other reporting — directly adjacent to Alvéole's biodiversity data offering.
• Brooklyn Grange: Brooklyn Grange is a commercial urban farming operation that designs, builds, and manages rooftop farms and apiary programs for commercial buildings — a thematic adjacent in rooftop nature-based amenities.
• WattCarbon: WattCarbon provides building-level environmental data and decarbonization analytics for commercial real estate, adjacent to Alvéole's biodiversity data and ESG reporting positioning.
• Bilt Rewards: Bilt Rewards is a resident loyalty and engagement platform for large multifamily portfolios — thematically adjacent to Alvéole's multifamily resident engagement use case and reaching the same institutional owners.

Emerging players

• The Honeybee Conservancy: The Honeybee Conservancy is a nonprofit focused on bee habitat and education that runs sponsored hive programs for schools and businesses — a partial overlap with Alvéole's educational workshop model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/alveolebuzz
• Facebookfacebook.com/alveolebuzz

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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