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Although technology has been upping pretty much every industry in the past decade, its implications in the real estate market have been somewhat reduced. Yet, proptech is a hot topic, garnering ever more attention from venture capitalists around the world. While on the surface it stands for the digitalization of real estate, at its core, proptech is in fact addressing questions of how we experienc...

Monograph, a startup working on cloud-based software that makes project and cost management easier for architects, announced today that it has raised $1.9 million in seed funding. The round was led by Homebrew Ventures and Parade Ventures, with participation from Designer Fund, Hustle Fund VC and angel investors. The San Francisco-based startup was founded last year by R...

The global data visualisation market is growing by up to $900m a year, and is expected to be worth $9bn by 2026, according to analysis of industry data by Zegami, the data visualisation company helping businesses unlock their data potential. Property is producing more data than ever but this creates pressure on managers and advisers to make sense of the numbers. This is leading to the increased u...

Augmented reality technology did not, it turns out, light the touch paper on a booming new industry. What we got instead were a few cute applications on smartphones and devices like Microsoft’s HoloLens, which has seen pretty limited success. Where AR has proved that it may have a future is in industry, allowing workers to look at plans whilst they assemble something, ...

Cesium has created a way for construction sites to collect and channel their visual data so that it can be useful for keeping tabs on a construction project’s progress. And now it has a partnership with construction equipment manufacturer Komatsu.

Austin-based supply chain tech startup Overhaul raised $17.5 million in a new round of funding, the company announced Tuesday. The latest round, which was led by Edison Partners, brings Overhaul’s total funding to $27.5 million. Overhaul last raised money in May 2019, when it landed $7 million in a round led by Abbey International Finance. The firm also led the company’s $4.5 million s...

he opening drinks reception at this year’s FUTURE PropTech in London in May will be co-hosted by PlaceTech and essensys, the provider of mission critical software-as-a-service to the flexible workspace market. During the two-day conference that follows, essensys will be among the companies taking part in sessions on stage. This year’s FUTURE PropTech is due to begin on the evening of Tuesday ...

Google’s cloud arm is partnering with AT&T Inc. on a suite of business products to be delivered over 5G networks, the latest tie-up between tech giants and wireless carriers hoping to capitalize on the rollout of faster connectivity. The Alphabet Inc. unit and AT&T said Thursday they were testing products designed to bring software and data services to fifth-generation, or 5G, customers...

Technology has changed every industry except real estate, until now. Homie, a full-service real estate tech company, is now ready to save Las Vegans millions of dollars in excessive real estate fees and commissions when they buy or sell their homes. The expansion into other U.S. markets comes on the heels of a $23 million Series B round of funding earlier this year. The fast-growing company has a...

Indian hotel company Oyo is joining several U.S. companies in a bid to grow its vacation-home rental business in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal. The model involves either managing vacation-home rentals on behalf of owners or renting out apartments, which can then be sub-leased to travelers.