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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

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It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. Existing investors LAUNCHub Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, HCVC (Hardware Club) and Change Ventures also participated.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

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There’s no escaping SPACs for a bit, so if you are tired of watching blind pools rip private companies into the public markets, you are not going to have a very good next few months. There are nearly 300 SPACs in the market today looking for deals, and many will find one. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Butlr lands new cash to put people-detecting sensors in the office

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Co-founder and CEO Honghao Deng said that the proceeds will support product development and expanding Butlr’s 50-person workforce, specifically its go-to-market team. Deng asserts that many companies are flying blind when it comes to real estate. One of Butlr’s temperature sensors. Image Credits: Butlr.

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AirGarage, a full-stack parking operator, raises $12.5M in round led by a16z

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Even when parking lot owners try to modernize — using an app, for example, or a credit card machine to take payment — they must deal with a whole array of providers to manage hardware, payment processing and marketing, all separately. That’s where AirGarage comes in.

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India, the world’s largest smartwatch market, is getting new smart rings

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The world’s largest smartwatch market is about to get two new smart rings. BoAt and Noise are entering the smart ring market after putting up a tough fight against Apple, Samsung and Huawei with affordable wearables. year-on-year growth in the overall wearable market, with 32.8 While the smart ring market in the U.S.

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Construction robotics firm Dusty raises $16.5M

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“Both markets are incredibly active and evolving quickly, I believe mostly due to longer-term trends. Those include things like continued improvements in AI and labor shortages in key industries, as well as the decreasing price of robotic hardware. The company likens the maps to “Ikea Instructions.”

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South Korean proptech startup Zigbang acquires Samsung SDS’ smart home IoT business

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Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . The company declined to comment on the acquisition deal valuation.

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