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TORONTO, April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Overall venture capital (VC) investment dropped from record heights of US$71 billion* in Q4'18 to $53 billion in Q1'19, due to a decline in Chinese investment, among other factors. While US and European investment remained relatively rob...
Since I started writing this column, I’ve had unprecedented access to all parts of the PropTech value chain. I have spoken to startups and VCs hailing from all over the world and had the opportunity to delve deep in specific use cases as well as highlight global macro trends. But there was one piece of the PropTech puzzle missing – the customer. Naturally, the true end users of real estate (an...
Building Ventures is pleased to announce that Heather Widman has joined the firm as a Principal. Adding Heather to the team will help Building Ventures fulfill our mission to identify, mentor and help build some of the most impactful startups across the Construction and Real Estate technology landscape.
The construction industry is on the cusp of significant disruption that will forever change how buildings are bought, designed, made, and assembled. The summation of the technological forces being applied to the construction industry is termed PropTech.
PropTech investment in 2016, according to Re:Tech, was a record at $4.2 billion which tripled to $12.6 billion in ...
Keller Williams is seeking to copy Redfin’s tech to beat the brokerage at its own game.
Keller Williams President Josh Team noted that the real estate industry is seeing an “arms race” — and the company is looking at Redfin because “they’re doing some really great things. The brokerage thinks it can “copy the technology of Redfin before Redfin can take the market share,” Inman r...
As flex-working increases in popularity, maximizing the potential and effectiveness of office space is a challenge for many companies. To provide occupiers in EMEA and North America access to real-time occupancy analytics technology, Colliers International is partnering with Basking Automation, a Colliers Proptech Accelerator powered by Techstars company.
The market for occupancy analytics in c...
On March 14th, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Boston’s Real Estate Tech Councilpresented the second annual “Shark Tank” Competition. The event ...
Listening to your tenants is well and good, but creating office buildings that people actually want to work in requires an additional step: analysing what they actually do.
The ability to utilise data to measure how people use offices and the districts around them is revolutionising the ability of office owners to understand how best to design buildings and the amenities to add, according to ...
Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it’s apparently a problem that is resonating with the market, as the startup reports 700 percent growth in the last year. That caught the attention of investors, who awarded them a $65 million Series C investment to help keep accelerating that growth...
Widespread closures have roiled the retail industry, but many more stores are likely to shut down in coming years to keep up with a shift to online shopping, according to a report by investment firm UBS.
An estimated 75,000 stores that sell clothing, electronics and furniture will close by 2026, when online shopping is expected to make up 25 percent of ...