Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
CREtech
Join CREtech & Alpaca VC’s upcoming webinar ‘The Great PropCo Opportunity’. As the PropTech ecosystem evolves and LP mindsets transition from “PropTech 1.0” to “PropTech 2.0”, there is a clear shift away from learning about one-off, point solutions and a desire to find ways to deploy PropCo capital programmatically and be the first to learn/discover new emerging asset classes.
The Times of Israel
What if you could buy a new home designed to your specification, ready to live in within a quarter of the time it normally takes to build a new house, while leaving just half the carbon footprint of other construction? As Americans strain under the weight of a housing shortage, an Israeli-founded and led company in San Mateo, California, Veev, is promising to do just that, remaking pre-fabricated construction by innovating new ways to put homes together quicker, greener and more efficiently t…
EGi
Having been focused on helping to build a thriving real estate tech industry for almost 10 years, the rate of growth I have seen in the sector has been truly extraordinary.
Antony Slumbers
Aristotle, who lived, 384-322 BC, is said to be the last person who knew everything there was that was known. And even he knew nothing, of course, about the areas of the world that he did not know even existed. Prior to the printing press (starting in 1436) enabling widespread dissemination of the written word, it was possible to get close to reading everything that had been written, that existed within the geography you inhabited. Leonardo (1452-1519) famously travelled around with his own libr…
Nordic Property News
“Together with Ikea, we want to create accessible and inspiring workplaces where local entrepreneurship and business are linked together to develop and grow. We also want to offer an alternative to working from home or commuting to the office and thus simplify everyday life and create a better balance between work and leisure for our visitors,” says Memo Hussein, Marketing Manager at Kungens Kurva Shoppingcenter.
Business Wire
Upflex—the premier global provider of hybrid workspace solutions—announced the closing of its $30 million Series A round. The raise was led by WeWork with participation from notable strategic investors Newmark and Cushman & Wakefield as well as returning investor Ecosystem Integrity Fund, and top venture funds including GPO Fund, Coelius Capital, Industry Ventures, Inertia Ventures, Perennial Private Investments, and Silicon Valley Bank. This brings Upflex’s total funds raised to-date to $34…
TechCrunch
The push behind the massive influx of warehouse robotics funding is largely driven by one entity: Amazon. There are other factors driving the industry, of course, including the pandemic, labor shortages and supply chain constraints, but Amazon is forever looming in the corner, forcing companies to adopt creative and innovative ways to remain competitive. Not even a force of nature like Walmart is immune.
Business Wire
Raise, a technology-powered commercial real estate brokerage, today announced its partnership with Valve, the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for the flexible office industry, to harness the company’s real-time availability and transaction platform to enable companies to harness the insights and flexible options necessary to support continued efforts to decentralize the office footprint….
We Are Tech Women
She leads on fundraising and platform activities in non-German speaking markets, fostering connections with property investors, who seek to better leverage technology in their portfolios. Through her work, she helps to strengthen the fund’s brand across the continent. Her experience in VC includes being on the investment team at a supply chain-focused fund and in a platform role at the VC spin out of multinational real estate investment manager Round Hill Capital.
Axios
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez hoped that the cryptocurrency, launched last summer, would help him raise revenue and reduce income inequality — and the eyes of other mayors were on the experiment, Alex Fitzpatrick writes….
Subscribe to CREtech to get our monthly newsletter curated by our editors and special event discounts and announcements.
or sign in if you're already a member
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR EUROPE 2030: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE BUILT WORLD IN LONDON ON JULY 1, 2025