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Berlin-based PropTech1 Ventures has announced the final closing of its oversubscribed first fund at €50 million. As the name implies, PropTech1 Ventures is focused on investing in the European property and construction-focused startups that are working in the digitalisation, method modernisation, and sustainability/E...
The rampant hype around NFTs, fueled by million-dollar art buys and cryptocurrency billionaires, can make NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, appear like a novelty to a seasoned investor in assets like commercial real estate. Novelties, even popular ones, don’t make a business.
The pandemic has forced challenges on multifamily developers in a variety of ways, but perhaps none more so than the supercharged need for connectivity in their properties.
In proptech, the early bird doesn’t always get the worm.
It can take a lot of time to overcome owners’ reluctance to bet on a new product, and those long sales cycles have been the undoing of many a startup, according to Christopher Yip.
The term "phygital" — a portmanteau of "physical" and "digital" — refers to a marketing strategy in which brands use bricks and clicks to entice customers, Jennifer A. Kingson writes.
Why it matters: While the term is far from new — an Australian ad agency called Momentum copyrighted it in 2013 — the word is cropping up more and more as digit...
As the United States slowly emerges from the Great Recession, a remarkable shift is occurring in the spatial geography of innovation.
For the past 50 years, the landscape of innovation has been dominated by places like Silicon Valley—suburban corridors of spatially isolated corporate campuses, accessible only by car, with little emphasis on the quality of...
Evernest, a German proptech company, has closed a €13M Series A financing round. According to the proptech startup, it has developed a technology platform for real estate agents to make the entire process of residential real estate transactions more efficient.
Last year was a blockbuster year for the public markets and saw a record number of special purpose acquisition companies go public. All told, 613 SPACs raised more than $162 billion in gross proceeds, crushing the record set in 2020, which was already a standout year for the SPAC market.
A startup that cuts material and emissions in concrete by up to 90% with 3D printing is among nine selected for the latest RElab scale-up programme, dominated by construction and sustainability innovations.
The company has partnered with software provider UiPath to provide staff with more reliable real estate analytics and to cut the number of manual tasks they do.