AUSTIN — Tim Shea is counting the days until he can move into a new 3-D-printed house. Shea, 69, will be the first to live in one of six such rentals created by what some in the housing industry call a futuristic approach that could revolutionize home construction.
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It’s no secret that we’re experiencing rapid technological changes across all industries, making our lives easier and businesses more efficient. CREtech (commercial real estate technology), also known as proptech (property technology), has seen a significant boom with more and more startups focused on digitizing aspects of the commercial real estate market.
Even if you don’t know who Ty Haney is, if you’ve spent any time on Instagram you probably know her company by osmosis. Outdoor Voices, with its millennial branding and muted pastel athleisure-wear, is social-media bait. Searching the company’s hashtag, #DoingThings, surfaces images of y...
The apartment rental market in the US will be worth $174.1 billion this year, and today a startup that’s built a platform to help it along by connecting renters with rentals is announcing a round of funding to fuel its growth. Zumper, which provides listings of available rental properties and services (such as rent payments) to help manage landlords’ rental businesses, has raised $60 million, ...
Construction and real-estate industry is going through a slump from some time now. However, that hasn’t stopped the Vienna based startup PlanRadar from securing €30 million in Series A round of funding. The PropTech startup offers an easy, fast and efficient SaaS solution for digital documentation and communication in construction and real estate projects. The company’s offering is available...
A new European venture capital (VC) fund dubbed A/O PropTech launched a month ago promising €250 million euro in “permanent capital” investment for disruptive proptech companies.
The fund is a “first of” investing approach which is structured more like a corporate shareholder arrangement, rather than your typical VC fund. According to A/O PropTech, this more permanent approach makes ...
The freight industry has seen several digital freight marketplaces in recent years, claiming to connect carriers with shippers and promising to expedite logistics-related transactions. Digital freight marketplaces often function on the premise that brokerages are replaceable and that supplanting brokers with mac...
Goodlord, the London proptech startup that offers cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords and tenants manage the rental process, appears to have achieved somewhat of a turnaround after it fell into difficulty two years ago. Since then, the company installed a new CEO and CTO, and raised further funding. Today Goodlord is announcing its next milestone: £10 million in “Series B” f...
Austin-based builder Icon is finishing work on the first of six “3D-printed” homes part of a 51-acre development for the chronically homeless in the city called Community First Village, according to the Washington Post. The company also “printed” the structure for a welcome center at the development in 27 hours.
San Francisco entrepreneur Madhu Chamarty got the idea for his latest startup from Amazon. com Inc.’s search for its second headquarters, which included finalists like Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio. For him, the search highlighted overlooked cities away from the coasts that had the talent pools to host tech companies. Early last year, he laun...