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Kapacity.io is using AI to drive energy and emissions savings for real estate

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is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs. Although early tests have been limited to its home market for now.

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Smart lock maker Latch teams with real estate firm to go public via SPAC

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The New York-based commercial real estate firm is a logical partner for a company whose technology is currently deployed exclusively in residential apartment buildings. That the company has built in partners in real estate firms like Tishman Speyer is also a net positive.

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The AI Anywhere Real Estate uses to boost leads and listings

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But this doesn’t mean AI can do everything, cautions Rudy Wolfs, CTO at Anywhere Real Estate. AI to enable better listings According to Wolfs, Anywhere Real Estate’s Listing Concierge offering gives agents a highly intuitive toolset to promote listings.

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Nigerian proptech Spleet gets $2.6M led by MaC VC to scale its property management products

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While Adesanmi worked for years in Nigeria’s banking and fintech space, his family’s real estate background pushed him to establish a startup in proptech. For years, proptech, unlike fintech, hasn’t witnessed exploding growth in Africa despite real estate needing as much innovation as financial services in the region.

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Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps

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Mobile apps have to be bug-tested across countless devices to ensure they work as intended. Users don’t look kindly on poor experiences — 88% say they’ll abandon apps based on minor glitches, according to software testing vendor Qualitest (which admittedly has a horse in the race). ” Image Credits: Mobot.

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Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series B

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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 adoption of Placer.ai’s tech increased among several new segments, including CPG and hedge funds, and it is continuing to expand in retail and commercial real estate as companies plan ahead.

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Brazilian proptech startup QuintoAndar lands $300M at a $4B valuation

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Fintech and proptech are two sectors that are seeing exploding growth in Latin America, as financial services and real estate are two categories in particular dire need of innovation in a region. SoftBank mints QuintoAndar a new unicorn in Latin American real estate tech.