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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. A construction tech boom. Technology startups are emerging to help solve these problems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

But in the past few decades, the lens through which we view real estate and property development has slowly blurred. So in order to pull back that veil, towards the end of 2022, we decided to take an in-depth look into the trends and tech in property development and construction.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Orbital Reef is claiming its slice of LEO real estate. The planned station, called “Orbital Reef,” will also include tech and services from Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering and Arizona State University. Don’t forget to sign up to get the free newsletter version of Max Q delivered to your inbox. Other news from TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The commercial real estate industry is facing its share of challenges, considering the fact that so many people are working from home (and not in offices) and retail is riding a slippery slope as more people shop online. In other words, the company’s self-proclaimed mission is to become the “LendingTree for commercial real estate.” (For

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. Infogrid helps our clients to provide exactly this, which improves their rental yields and asset values.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Last year we covered how early blockchain startup Propy planned to use the technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Propy’s plan is to scale this offering globally, providing a single framework for purchasing real estate using blockchain technology.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s been a very tough year for Placer.ai ’s core customer segments of retail and commercial real estate, to put it mildly. But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That’s where Puls Technologies come in. Puls raises $50 million for in-home technical support. Puls Technologies app. Image Credits: Puls Technologies. It saw some of that demand related to the global pandemic, when the need for home repairs increased due to people spending more time at home.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Based out of the U.S., It’s raised $529.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Atmos touts that with its tech, homebuyers are able to select land, design a home within their budget and approve the design using 3D tech. Atmos says its technology allows buyers to see “exactly what can be built on any specific lot depending on the size, shape and development requirements.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. It is embedded in the category, and with the long housing and tech boom, many founders have underestimated this. Pete Flint, general partner, NFX.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s being led by Josh Buckley (the CEO of Product Hunt), with participation from WndrCo (Disney/Dreamworks’ supremo Jeffrey Katzenberg’s investment firm), Lachy Groom, MMC Technology Ventures LLC, Fifth Wall Ventures and Array Ventures, as well as a swathe of real estate names, including J.M.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Deng asserts that many companies are flying blind when it comes to real estate. “The pandemic brought home the need to understand occupancy and utilization data for real estate executives,” Deng told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” OTI raises $55 million for technology to remove screen obstructions. Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Often, industries that have great potential to be disrupted are also the most resistant to adopting bleeding-edge technology. While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. Its recently enacted $1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

It’s safe to say that millions of Americans dream of becoming real estate investors but can’t or don’t due to a variety of challenges, including lack of accreditation, capital and time. CEO Yishai Cohen and CTO Amit Assaraf started Landa in 2020 in an effort to make real estate ownership more inclusive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Nearly exactly one month ago, digital real estate platform Loft announced it had closed on $425 million in Series D funding led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. Real estate platform Loft raises $425M at a $2.2B The decision to raise more capital so soon was due to a variety of factors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

In an emailed statement, Loft — which says it uses technology to simplify and enable real estate and credit transactions — described the move as “a reorganization of its operation.” That would mean that Loft has let go of nearly 540 workers this year so far. It currently has about 3,200 employees.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Our technology is particularly relevant to those with low-to-moderate income who have been neglected by traditional financial solutions.”. Landis acquires real estate startup GoldenKey. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Co-founders Junyuan Tan and Phillip An originally started Homebase in Singapore, but decided to focus on Vietnam because Tan had lived there while working on his previous startups, RePrice Technologies and Atlantis Lab. Tan wanted to buy a home, but found bank mortgages charged high interest rates even on short-term loans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. They’re also becoming huge carbon hogs, consuming roughly 40% of all energy used on the planet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

In fact, the firm believes that Texas is going to be the second-largest tech ecosystem in the U.S. We’re constantly meeting entrepreneurs that are at the frontier of things because they’re running into technology issues that others don’t have,” Engineer added. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As China looks to reignite growth, what role will its technology industry play? Is there enough capital flowing to support a new generation of tech startups that could keep China competitive? Other factors played into China’s slowing economic growth. Unsurprisingly, venture capital activity in the country declined.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is mostly due to the clearly maturing startup scene in the region, with proven successes such as Nubank, Cornershop, Gympass and Loggi helping to bolster LatAm’s credibility. In LatAm, tech entrepreneurs are building the future for everyone else.” “There’s so much to build for so many people and businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year. The new firm will invest in 30 to 40 early-stage companies in the real estate technology world, with check sizes ranging from $500,000 to $2 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Elizabeth Redmond and Keenan May, both co-founders of CoWorkr, will remain on in full-time roles, where they will run a corporate real estate initiative, and develop an IoT capacity. . Amid pandemic, returning to offices remains an open question for tech leaders. Studies have shown it can inactivate flu viruses in the air.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants. Austin is also home to secondary offices of many of the largest tech companies in the world, including Google, Apple, Oracle, Amazon, Facebook and SpaceX. And the numbers are there to back it up.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist. Besides the fact that over 20% of all venture dollars last year went into fintech startups , I am particularly excited about the myriad ways that this technology is helping boost inclusion all over the world. Recall that Visa almost bought Plaid for $5.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

One result of this continued migration is a steady surge in housing prices due to increased demand and low inventory that dropped to nearly zero earlier this year. The sheer volume of people migrating to Austin from all over the country, but particularly from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been making headlines for a while now.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. It will also be doubling down on expanding its technology.

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MAY 18, 2022

To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space. Due to the pandemic, many contech workers were unable to freely visit their job sites and realized they had less visibility than they’d like into what was happening onsite. “Due

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Airlift, once one of Pakistan’s most richly valued and funded startups, shut down in July due to lack of capital and an unsuccessful attempt to close a funding round. The fall from those heights, thus, didn’t just impact employees and investors, but also general enthusiasm about the Pakistani tech ecosystem. Image Credits: Argo AI.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

QuintoAndar is taking its first steps out of Brazil to open a technology hub in Lisbon, Portugal aimed at attracting technology talent across the pond. The new office is part of our long-term focus of building a world-class tech team and part of the funding will support that continuous investment,” he added. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

If you’re trying to recalibrate online sales, this TC+ guest post contains formulas for calculating lost lifetime value (LTV) due to churn on a monthly and annual basis. Last week, Andreessen Horowitz wrote the largest individual check in the firm’s history, investing $350 million in residential real estate startup Flow.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. The latest startup in the space to get a big chunk of cash is Beta Technologies, maker of electric vertical take-off and landing planes. billion, per Crunchbase.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

One year after raising $16 million , construction technology company Buildots is back to claim another $30 million, this time in Series B funding. The three-year-old company, with headquarters in Tel Aviv and London, is leveraging artificial intelligence computer vision technology to address construction inefficiencies.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is SoftBank’s first property tech investment in Europe, although it’s no stranger to the iBuyer model. All of that technology definitely came into its own during the peak of Covid-19, he said, when in Spain people were virtually forbidden to leave their homes without special permission.

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