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Axios
The Home Depot (HYSE: HD) has launched a $150 million venture capital arm, focused on customer experience and home improvement startups.
Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology
Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
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‘Bored Ape’ Unicorn Raises $320M By Selling Virtual Land In Its Metaverse
Crunchbase
The startup behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs has raised as much as $320 million in cryptocurrency by selling 55,000 plots of virtual land in its metaverse. The virtual real estate buying frenzy over the weekend reportedly so intense that it crashed the Ethereum network and sent fees on the blockchain system soaring.
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Point closes on $115M to give homeowners a way to cash out on equity in their homes
TechCrunch
Historically, homeowners could only tap into the equity of their homes by taking out a home equity loan or refinancing. But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes.
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Technology will help solve many of the challenges that are confronting the real estate industry – Michael Beckerman, CEO CREtech and CREtech Climate
Bright Spaces
Michael Beckerman is the CEO of CREtech, the largest global consulting, media, and conference company devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector.
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Clean Cement Startup Brimstone Energy Raises $55M Pre-Revenue
The Real Deal
Brimstone Energy is taking on a challenge of biblical proportions: producing mass-market, zero-carbon Portland cement, a key building material. If it succeeds, the implications for the real estate and construction industries are so enormous that investors have poured $55 million into the startup before it has made a single dollar.
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Technology will help solve many of the challenges that are confronting the real estate industry – Michael Beckerman, CEO CREtech and CREtech Climate
Bright Spaces
Michael Beckerman is the CEO of CREtech, the largest global consulting, media, and conference company devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector.
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CREtech London | 5 inspirational buildings for a greener future
PlaceTech
Is real estate a force for good for the environment? Striking an optimistic note in her keynote address earlier this week, Julie Hirigoyen, CEO of the UK Green Building Council, showcased several exceptional buildings that suggest it can be.
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Registrations Open For ‘The Great PropCo Opportunity’ Webinar, May 24
CREtech
Join CREtech & Alpaca VC’s upcoming webinar ‘The Great PropCo Opportunity’.
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JLL Spark’s boss on why US tech entrepreneurs are ‘not smarter’
EGI
Real estate tech entrepreneurs in the US are “not smarter” than those elsewhere in the world – they just have access to more opportunities, according to Raj Singh, managing partner of JLL’s global ventures fund JLL Spark.
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Jamestown Partners With BitPay For Cryptocurrency Rent Payments
Bisnow
Real estate investment firm Jamestown has announced that it has partnered with BitPay to accept cryptocurrency on commercial rent payments. Jamestown will not receive or hold any cryptocurrency; rather, BitPay will act as an exchange between Jamestown and its tenants, Real Estate Weekly reports.
