Arup is a global professional services firm whose core consultancy encompasses design, engineering, planning, and project management across the built environment. Its ventures arm invests in early-stage startups at the intersection of technology and sectors including infrastructure, buildings, energy, and sustainability. The firm operates worldwide, applying a multidisciplinary ethos known internally as 'total architecture' to projects spanning environmental regeneration, resource conservation, and social value.
Through its investment activities, Arup leverages deep domain expertise in the built environment to identify and support companies developing solutions for this traditionally underdigitised sector. The firm's culture emphasises technical excellence, collaborative problem-solving, and what it terms 'socially useful work,' linking engineering rigour to broader objectives around biodiversity, stable economic growth, and environmental sustainability.
