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Download CREtech’s Monthly Proptech Funding Report: February

The CREtech monthly PropTech Funding Report highlights trends in venture capital investments in real estate tech (proptech) companies.  These trends have a profound impact on the greater real estate industry and the built environment. Strategic proptech trends have the potential to create opportunities, drive significant innovation and disruption. In this data-rich report, CREtech analyzed and lists the companies funded, their investors, and trends for the month of February 2020.  Download the C…

The Global smart city market is expected to grow by USD 2118.14 bn during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of 23% during the forecast period

Our reports on global smart city market provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering around 25 vendors.  The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current global market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. The market is driven by increase in it consolidation and modernization.In addition, enhanced global broadband connectivity is anticipated to boost the growth …

Proptech: A Sophisticated Way to Fight Climate Change

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 experience and reap value from real estate.

Monograph, developer of project and cost management software for architects, raises $1.9 million

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 Robert Yuen, Alex Dixon and Moe Amaya. Each has experience in architecture, design and software development, making them well-po…

Data visualisation market ‘will hit $9bn by 2026’

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 use of data visualisation in data analytics and business intelligence tools, as well as organisations …

XYZ Reality secures £5M to bring a hologram headset to the construction industry

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, for instance.

Cesium makes construction smarter with drones, 3D visualization, and Komatsu deal

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.

Overhaul Raises $17.5M To Continue Growing Company In an Edison Partners

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 seed round in December 2017, according to Crunchbase.

Join PlaceTech and essensys at FUTURE PropTech

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 12 May and conference and exhibition take place over the following two days, 13-14 May.