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Colliers
Leading diversified professional services and investment management company Colliers announced today that it has hired experienced data center professional Raul Saavedra as Executive Vice President and Head of Data Center Advisory for the Americas.
PlaceTech
Should we line buildings with recycled jeans for insulation – or would that be written off as a slick marketing ploy to get people talking? That’s not a hypothetical question. Recently over lunch, an architect asked me if I’d heard of a building in Amsterdam that did, in fact, use old jeans as insulation. The building in question was Circl – a mixed-use development built on the premise of packing in as much recycled materials as humanly possible. Even the on-site restaurant is in on it, us…
Bisnow
Proptech investment firm RET Ventures has named Jerry Davis, a veteran of Colorado-based multifamily owner and manager UDR as a senior adviser, following the launch of the company’s Housing Impact Fund. Davis was president and chief operating officer of UDR, where he spent more than 30 years. In 2021, he stepped aside as COO but remained as president of the company until December 2021, when he retired from UDR entirely. …
A/O proptech
A/O invests in companies decarbonising the built world. This means a core part of our investment thesis focuses on technology which digitises, streamlines and scales energy retrofits for existing buildings. In our first investment report, we outline Our approach to segmenting the retrofit technology market and analyse venture capital deal trends in Europe and the US.
Property Week
We didn’t just want a pleasant backdrop to the meeting of minds we hoped the summit would be; rather we wanted it to be an inspiration in itself in our mission to decarbonise the built world. We wanted people to look out and think: “This is great; how do we bring these innovations to our communities, and how do we go even further?”
Crain’s New York
Proptech needs a new name.
Crunchbase
Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global led the way last month in investing in U.S.-based startups—both in total rounds participated in, as well as rounds led or co-led.
manley
Every year, $320 billion worth of partition walls are thrown out worldwide. JUUNOO, a Belgian startup taking the lead in circular building and construction, completed its Series A Financing round in Europe with a total capital increase of $3.8 million (supplemented by $3.2 million in additional loans and grants). The company now makes its way to the US.
Business Insider
Fifth Wall is the world’s largest real-estate-focused proptech VC, and has made its first metaverse investment in a startup called Parcel.
TechCrunch
If you had told me that this week I’d learn about a fence-building company that employs 350 people and raised a total of $53 million, I’d ask you to pass the bong, because I want some of what you’re smoking. But that’s exactly what Ergeon has been stealthily building over the past 4 years. It just launched in Georgia, in addition to Texas and California, and recently closed a Series B funding round.
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