KAURI CAB Group

What KAURI CAB Group does

KAURI CAB Group is a Berlin-based, owner-managed real estate investment, development, and asset management firm founded in 1998. The group operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries spanning the full real estate value chain: KAURI CAB Development Berlin GmbH (heritage restorations, quarter developments, mixed-use), KAURI CAB Management GmbH (asset and property management, transaction structuring), KAURI CAB Quartier GmbH (urban quarter projects), and KAURI CAB Invest GmbH (investment vehicle). The group reports EUR 1,600+ million in assets under management, 200,000+ square meters of developed space, and 170+ completed investments, primarily concentrated in the Berlin metropolitan region.

The group's revenue model combines recurring asset management fees on residential and commercial assets, transaction and structuring fees from deal sourcing, one-time development profits on projects such as Havelufer Quartier and Wasserstadt Mitte, and venture returns from KAURI DIGITAL, a PropTech and impact VC arm. Customers are almost exclusively institutional and international investors seeking Berlin real estate exposure with full-service local execution. The technical stack is conventional asset management supplemented by PropTech product adoption; no proprietary AI/ML capability, APIs, or SDKs are disclosed.

In 2026 the group formally extended beyond traditional real estate through KAURI CAB Digital Infrastructure GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary that acquired a 55,000 sqm parcel in Hochheim for €24 million to develop an approximately 40MW data center, with construction commencing in 2028. The senior team, drawn from Goldman Sachs, KKR, PGIM Real Estate, Benson Elliot, Castlelake, and Angelo Gordon, is the principal differentiator and primary distribution channel, supplemented by direct B2B sales, earned media in major German publications, and industry conference participation.

Name

KAURI CAB Group

Legal name

KAURI CAB Management GmbH

Website

https://kauricab.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

KAURI CAB Group is an owner-managed Berlin real estate investment, development, and asset management firm managing EUR 1,600+ million across 170+ investments, serving institutional and international investors with full-service capabilities now extending into digital infrastructure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Asset Management Fees: Ongoing fees from managing residential and commercial properties for investors, including value-add management services.
2. Development Profit: Revenue from development projects including sustainable quarter developments, heritage building restorations, and commercial developments.
3. Transaction Fees: Fees from deal sourcing, acquisition, structuring, and transaction management including debt service.
4. PropTech Investment Returns: Returns from venture capital investments in PropTech companies across Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A stages.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

KAURI CAB Group is an owner-managed real estate investment, development and asset management company that provides deal sourcing, acquisition structuring, value-add property management, architectural and construction services, and PropTech venture capital investments. It serves institutional and international investors primarily in the Berlin metropolitan region and is expanding into digital infrastructure through a data center development subsidiary.

Product overview

KAURI CAB Group operates as a diversified real estate and digital infrastructure investment and development company with multiple subsidiary brands. The group comprises KAURI CAB Development Berlin GmbH (real estate development), KAURI CAB Management GmbH (investment and asset management), KAURI CAB Digital Infrastructure GmbH (data center development), KAURI CAB Quartier GmbH (quarter development), KAURI CAB Invest GmbH (investment vehicle), and KAURI TECH (PropTech venture capital). The portfolio includes major projects such as Wasserstadt Mitte/Europa City and Berlin Spandau Urban Quarter, with the group managing approximately €1.6 billion in assets under management across more than 170 investments and 200,000+ square meters developed.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KAURI CAB Development: Development services including tailormade solutions from protected heritage buildings to complex quarter development
• KAURI CAB Management
• KAURI Digital

Products and services

• KAURI CAB Development (Real Estate Development Services)
• KAURI CAB Management (Investment & Asset Management)
• KAURI CAB Digital Infrastructure (Data Center Development)
• KAURI Digital (PropTech Venture Capital)
• KAURI CAB Quartier (Quarter Development)
• KAURI CAB Invest (Group Investment Vehicle)

Quantifiable outcome

• EUR 800+ Mio. in real estate transactions by Managing Partner Luca Bauernfeind
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Union Investment Real Estate: One of Germany's largest real estate fund managers, part of the Union Investment Group. Overlaps with KAURI CAB's institutional real estate investment management business but at a much larger scale, with a broader open-ended and closed-end fund product set and pan-European scope.
• DWS Group: Global asset manager with a significant German and European real estate investment platform (formerly Deutsche Asset Management). Competes with KAURI CAB for institutional real estate allocations, but operates a much broader multi-asset platform and is far larger in scale.

Emerging players

• Vantage Data Centers: Global hyperscale data center developer with significant European expansion including Frankfurt. Comparable to KAURI CAB Digital Infrastructure as a data center developer targeting institutional and hyperscale tenants, though at substantially larger scale and capital base.
• EdgeConneX: US-headquartered data center developer with European operations. Comparable as a developer-operator of data center capacity in European markets, relevant to KAURI CAB Digital Infrastructure's strategic positioning in the Frankfurt data center market.
• maincubes GmbH: German data center operator with facilities in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Directly relevant to KAURI CAB's newly launched data center subsidiary as a regional incumbent in the same Frankfurt data center market where KAURI CAB Digital Infrastructure is developing its 40MW Hochheim site.

Direct peers

• Patrizia SE: German-headquartered real estate investment manager with pan-European investment and asset management operations. Directly comparable in business model — institutional investor focus, value-add investment strategy, and asset management services — though larger and broader in geographic scope.
• PropTech1 Ventures: German PropTech venture capital firm investing in early-stage real estate technology companies across Europe. Directly comparable to KAURI DIGITAL as a German PropTech-focused VC providing early-stage capital and real estate industry access to portfolio companies.
• Art-Invest Real Estate: German real estate investment and asset manager with offices in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and beyond. Highly comparable — owner-driven, full-service real estate platform covering investment, development, and asset management for institutional investors, with a similar mid-sized AUM profile.
• BEOS Industrial: Berlin-based commercial/industrial real estate investment manager owned by Swiss Life Asset Managers. Comparable as a German specialist real estate investment manager serving institutional clients, with a similar focus on value-add strategies and asset management services.

Others

• Berlin Hyp AG: Berlin-headquartered specialist mortgage bank focused on German commercial real estate financing. Adjacent to KAURI CAB's business as a real estate capital partner, providing debt financing across the German commercial real estate market where KAURI CAB's assets and developments are concentrated.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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