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Mortgage data firm Actovia has struck a deal to buy its former competitor CrediFi, the Tel Aviv-based startup that abruptly shut down last month. New Jersey-based Actovia closed on its purchase Friday, company founder and CEO Jonathan Ingber told The Real Deal. Ingber founded Actovia in 2011 as a platform to provide access to commercial mortgage information on properties in New York Cit...
CREtech, the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, will be showcasing a panel of the most active companies in the real estate tech M&A space at its first event in 2020. To be held in Austin, Texas on April 22nd and 23rd, the panel will feature Tim Curran, CEO at Building Engines, one of the leaders in the sector.
Tim Curran is the CEO of Bu...
CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, will be showcasing the leading-edge commercial estate development companies at its first event in 2020. To be held in Austin, Texas on April 22nd and 23rd, the event will feature the largest and most active landlords and developers sharing their companies tech initiatives, overall st...
Robotics startup company Soft Robotics has closed its Series B round of funding, raising $23 million led by Calibrate Ventures and Material Impact, and including participation from exiting investors including Honeywell, Yahama, Hyperplane and more. This round also brings in FANUC, the world’s largest maker of industrial robots and a recently announced strategic partner ...
Citing concerns about the rise of deepfakes and the potential abuses of facial recognition technology, Google CEO Sundar Pichai declared in an op-ed in the Financial Times that artificial intelligence should be more tightly regulated: “We need to be clear-eyed about what could go wrong” with A.I., Pichai wrote. The Alphabet and Google executive wrote about the positive developments that A.I. ...
Planet Smart City has secured £20.5m funding. The London-headquartered provider of smart affordable housing secured the investment from existing and new investors, taking the total amount raised since the company’s inception to €100m. The PropTech improves quality of life for residents and fosters communities by providing superior infrastructure, urban planning, sustainability and technolog...
For the past eight years, I’ve spent every day of my professional life enabling an industry that is responsible for nearly 40% of global climate emissions. I don’t work for an oil or gas company. I don’t work for an airline. I’m an architect. The environmental impacts of the built environment are staggering.
RealVantage, Singapore’s first online real estate co-investment platform that acquires, manages, and optimises offshore real estate portfolios for accredited investors, founded by a team with institutional investment experience, launched on Jan 16.
RealVantage brings accredited investors offshore investment opportunities across various real estate classes and investment strategies.
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That is Brendan Wallace’s reasoning behind the launch this week of Fifth Wall’s $200m (£153m) Carbon Impact Fund. Speaking to EG, Fifth Wall’s co-founder and managing partner warns that 2020 will be the year everyone realises that, above all else, climate change is “a real estate problem” as he urges the sector to prepare for a “pitchfork moment”. He adds that as the general publi...
Proptech is the big buzzword in real estate and for good reason: It’s disrupting just about every aspect of the industry and interest is at a fever pitch. Global investment in proptech companies has grown from US$1B in 2012 to US$18B in 2018, according to the latest numbers by Statista. So exactly what is proptech? It’s a broad term that includes everything from data, AI, machine learning, mob...