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  • How the metaverse is already changing the built environment

    Medium

    In late October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be the new name for the US tech giant. It gives a less-than-subtle nod to the metaverse­, which Zuckerberg identified as the future of the organisation and tech-enabled social networking more broadly. At the same time, Google Trends saw a surge of online interest in the topic (see below chart). The metaverse is a familiar concept to the Pi Labs investment team and wider PropTech ecosystem. Generally, the metaverse is broken into …

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  • Virtual real estate plot sells for record $2.4 million

    Reuters

    A patch of virtual real estate in the online world Decentraland sold for a record $2.4 million worth of cryptocurrency, the buyer crypto investor Tokens.com (COIN.NLB) and Decentraland said on Tuesday.

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  • Co-working and EdTech company Talent Garden acquires Hyper Island to scale online courses globally

    TechCrunch

    Talent Garden is a sort of “European-WeWork-meets-General-Assembly” in that its business model is a combination of co-working spaces (in places like Italy, Austria, Romania, among others) plus online/offline digital courses. It’s also a post-Series B company (its last round was $73.5 million), having raised from investors such as 500 Startups and Social Capital. It’s now upping its game further with the acquisition of a majority (54%) stake in Hyper Island — a place some Europeans regard as the …

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  • Proptech fundraising hits $9.5B record

    The Real Deal

    Turkeys haven’t yet hit ovens, but this year’s investments in the proptech sector have already broken the industry’s record. The sector received $9.5 billion from investors and venture capital as of mid-November, according to CB Insights data reported by the Wall Street Journal. That figure breaks the record previously set two years ago, when $9 billion was raised in 2019.

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  • ‘Adapt or fail’: WiredScore expands European presence

    Placetech

    Building connectivity ratings system WiredScore has expanded to 12 new countries in Europe as it releases research into the continent’s connectivity and working habits.

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  • Goldman Sachs crowns latest proptech unicorn

    Placetech

    Place, a business service platform for agents in the US and Canada, has raised $100m in a Series A funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, valuing it at more than $1bn.

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  • Evolving Retail with Data, Part 3

    CREtech

    Anjee Solanki of Colliers discusses the relationship between e-commerce and brick and mortar post-pandemic, and the importance of implementing technology to create a seamless omni-channel shopping experience.

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  • Proptech Investor Backs Startup Looking To Fuse Real Estate And The Metaverse

    Bisnow

    Specialist proptech venture capital firm Pi Labs has backed a startup looking to create augmented reality technology that would fuse real-world space in sectors like real estate with the digital metaverse….

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  • Insurtech Comes to Proptech

    Commercial Observer

    Like many industries, real estate is more than ever dependent on technological innovation. However, only in the past few years has proptech begun to address the problems stemming from insurance compliance in the real estate industry.

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  • CREtech/Fifth Wall Webinar: The State of Climate Tech In The Built World

    Zoom

    Join Michael Beckerman, CEO of CREtech & CREtech Climate for this exclusive conversation with the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Wall, Brendan Wallace, and Greg Smithies, Partner and Co-Lead of the Climate Technology Investment Team. In this rare, candid discussion, Beckerman will interview Brendan and Greg on the latest in climate technology for the real estate industry, the firm’s investment strategy, overall progress in getting the Built World to prioritize decarbonization an…

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