After an incubation and prototyping phase, the startup created by Ugnius Remeika, a pioneer in Europe for robotized furniture, partners with Mobekip Group to position its sustainable and customizable collections
HOMVERS, the smart furniture brand designed to optimize small spaces, enters the market with the reinforcement and shareholding of new Navarre partners. The startup, created by Ugnius Remeika, an expert in developing numerical control machines, is a pioneer in Europe for its new generation furniture proposal, based on functionality, innovation, robotics, and sustainability.
Having overcome the incubation and prototyping phase, two companies from Ribera now join this venture: Navas&Garijo and Mobekip Group, the latter with extensive experience in manufacturing and distributing home, contract, and school furniture, as well as three engineers and two financiers who supported the project’s inception from ESIC.
This strategic alliance will provide HOMVERS with the necessary structure and financial and commercial muscle to boost its entry into sales channels.
For Mario Falcón, CEO of Mobekip, it is important that such a groundbreaking idea emerges “from the latent talent in Navarre and with the support of Navarre companies. It is an initiative that clearly fits within the S4, which prioritizes design, digitalization, and sustainable development. This union will also allow us to manufacture not only in a standardized way but also in a customized manner. Thanks to the combination of mechanical and electronic components that facilitate movements and openings, the adaptability of the furniture to the space is total.”
Currently, 80% of the Spanish population lives in urban areas. And there are nearly five and a half million single-person households registered, a figure that will increase in the coming years.
HOMVERS is born, therefore, as a solution to a growing problem: the high demand for housing, saturation in urban centers, scarcity of land, and the future construction of apartments with fewer habitable square meters. This context also affects the growth of the renovation sector, as well as other housing alternatives such as coliving.
Four Versatile Collections
Ugnius Remeika is the creative soul of HOMVERS. Based in Tudela for years, he has poured all his knowledge in carpentry, metallurgy, and machinery manufacturing into the brand.
For this Lithuanian entrepreneur, these types of products are an excellent resource “to compensate for the lack of materials, the rising cost of land, and the increase in rents. They are a tool to help people live better.”
His R furniture approaches have materialized into four collections: Carlota 135, which allows integrating a living room that includes a work desk with a bedroom with a wardrobe; Vestidor 180, which provides great storage capacity in a small space; Office 200, an optimal solution to separate work and leisure areas at home; and the Sky Bed, an innovative bed that descends from the ceiling and offers the freedom to have a spacious living room during the day and a cozy bedroom at night.
The idea is to transform rooms into special, magical, safe, and comfortable places. All of this with just a digital touch, through the control panel integrated into the furniture, or by installing a proprietary application on the mobile phone.
“This combination of intelligent solutions for conventional furniture and space-saving multiplies the possibilities and represents significant savings, as the needs of several pieces of furniture are merged into one,” explains Mario Falcón. “In the future, they will also be applicable to other types of buildings, such as student residences, hotels, apartments, hostels, or why not, football stadiums. All of this made to measure and based on project,” he adds.
HOMVERS’ next challenge is to present its products to the sales channel. Taking advantage of Mobekip’s network of distributors and clients (which extends throughout Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Malta, and Morocco), the collections will be shown to companies and public and private entities, as well as to professional architects and decorators.
In Navarra, a service area and showroom will be established at their facilities in Mutilva. To address the national market, discussions are already underway with HABIC, the Equipment, Furniture, and Design Cluster of the Basque Country, to position the collections at various trade fairs and presentations for professionals.