What The World’s Biggest PropTech Investors Want From Startups

PropTech had a big year in 2018, with investment in the sector just shy of $20B, a 38% increase on 2017, according to Venture Scanner. What is getting investors in the sector excited right now, and where is the sector headed? Bisnow asked three of the world’s biggest PropTech investors what they are looking for from startups and their key trends for 2019. All three will be speaking at the FUTURE:PropTech event in London in May, for which Bisnow is a media partner.

EXCLUSIVE: WeWork Backer SoftBank On Its Disruptive Real Estate Push

No company in the world may be having a bigger impact on real estate right now than SoftBank. The Japanese telecoms giant has made a series of massive bets on companies that are disrupting the sector, via its tech-focused $100B Vision Fund, and using its own balance sheet. The aim of its founder, Masayoshi Son, is to invest in companies and technologies that will change the world, and property and construction are playing a huge part in this.

3 Questions with Altus Group’s Ross Litkenhous

New Panel Announced For CREtech L.A. Featuring Avalon Bay, Macerich, Industrious and PSP Growth

Panel Will Discuss The Convergence Of Tech And The Physical World New York, NY (February 21, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announced a new panel session for its upcoming conference in Los Angeles on March 27-28. The session “The Convergence of Real Estate Development & Tech” will feature leading commercial real estate owners/developers discussing how they are integrating tech solutions into thei…

CREtech Announces Official Partnership with Brella Networking App for 2019 Events

CREtech to Offer Leading Networking Event Software App to Attendees For An Exclusive Matchmaking Experience at 2019 Events New York, NY (February 21, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announced award-winning networking software, Brella, as the official matchmaking app for 2019 events, including: Los Angeles: March 27-28, 2019 Boston: April 10, 2019 New York City: October 16-17, 2019 &nbsp…

SoftBank’s latest big real estate bet is in a start-up that’s taking on the physical storage industry

SoftBank’s Vision Fund has poured billions of dollars into real estate technology, from its massive stake in co-working space provider WeWork to the hundreds of millions of dollars in online platforms Opendoor and Compass. The Vision Fund’s latest big bet is in another corner of the real estate market: storage. SoftBank said Wednesday it led a $200 million funding round in Clutter, which provides storage services, including the picking up and dropping off of a customer’s items. The cash in…

Real Time Facilities Experience – Is it the Future?

CREtech sat down for an Exclusive Interview with Prabhu Ramachandran, Founder & CEO, Facilio Inc. CREtech: While they were late to join the tech revolution, the real estate and FM industry is now undergoing a huge transformation. What do you think is changing in the built environment of late? Prabhu Ramachandran: I feel a lot of things are changing. Buildings have been late to this party but not too late! We are in the Uber, Airbnb era where every service is real-time and driven by custo…

CBRE Launches New Co-Working Business, Taking on WeWork

CBRE Group Inc. and other big brokers are trying to muscle their way into the increasingly crowded but lucrative co-working business, aiming to help landlords create their own flex-space companies that cut out middlemen like WeWork Cos. Large companies have embraced co-working and flex space because it allows them to expand and contract their space quickly. They have been rapidly shunning the 10- and 15-year leases that have been a mainstay of the office space industry for decades. …

3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces

3DEN is building spaces for what it calls the “in-between moments” of your day. The name (pronounced “Eden”) comes from the idea of the “third place” — a space that’s neither home nor work. Founder and CEO Ben Silver told me the goal is to create a space that people can use if, say, they’ve got 45 minutes to fill between meetings, or if they’ve just gotten off a red-eye flight and need somewhere to freshen up. Coffee shops, co-working spaces, gyms or hotels might serve some of those function…

Dealpath and Lionpoint Group Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Data Solutions for Real Estate Investment Managers

NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Dealpath, the leading investment management software platform for the real estate industry, and Lionpoint Group, a global advisory firm specializing in alternative investments, today jointly announced a strategic partnership to empower global real estate investment firms with centralized data and configurable workflows integrated across organizations by combining Lionpoint’s business strategy, technology and operational expertise with the Dealpath software…