Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Michael Beckerman
Here are my favorite Real Estate Tech reads from this past week. Happy reading! Bay Area Research Rant: Tech Cities 1.0 Report – San Jose (Silicon Valley) & San Francisco Top ListBlog – Cushman & WakefieldCushman & Wakefield released its inaugural tech report this week – Tech Cities 1.0. It’s a look at the top 25 tech markets across the U.S. as…
CRETECH
Real estate technology funding is on track to reach another high. In the first quarter of this year, emerging tech companies closed 61 deals and received $733 million in funding.According to CB Insights, if the current investment rates continue, real estate tech company funding could reach $2.9 billion, a 10% increase year-over-year in raised capital. The niche is tracking to close the year with 247 deals, which is an 11% decrease in deal activity from 2016. Note that last year real estate tech …
DreamIt
Dreamit Ventures is one of the leading voices in a new sector called urban tech, which they define as technology products impacting the built environment within cities. In other words, this new sector is focused on startups that sell to architects, design firms, developers, construction companies, CRE, and others. If you are facilitating the building of cities, you fall within “urban tech.” The three broad investment markets that fall into this definition of urban tech are real estate tech, cons…
Michael Beckerman
I spent almost thirty years in the public relations industry building my own firm, Beckerman PR. Our niche was real estate. A national practice with multiple offices and some very talented professionals. Along the way, I brought in a partner and we expanded into other verticals… most notably, clean energy. Just recently, I sold my stake in the firm knowing that it’s in great hands with terrific leadership.While I really enjoyed the people and clients I worked with, I had grown disillusioned with…
CRETECH
Remember how cool the TI-82 graphic calculators were back in the day? Punching in data to create circles and parabolas was the height of calculation. Now computers sort millions of parameters and spit out results in seconds. Known as big data, the ability to sort through data sets to find trends and patterns is transforming how multiple industries conduct business. Commercial real estate is no exception. Over the last few years, we’ve watched big data make real estate agents more efficient at le…
CRETECH
Who hasn’t typed an address into Google Street View and skimmed through the images to get a feel for a particular area? For years, Street View has been just that: a street view. Over time updates to technology made the zoom function more powerful, but viewers were still limited to exterior shots of locations.Imagine taking Street View to next level: clicking on an address and virtually stepping inside. Matterport’s new partnership with Google Street View allows just that. Viewers can click on se…
CRETECH
CONTACT Rich Boyle, General Partner, Canaan Partners THE SCOOP I am pretty sure I met perhaps the smartest guy in CRE tech on my recent trip to SF. Rich Boyle is someone I obviously had heard of (his history at Loopnet with Founder Dennis DeAndre and COO/President Tom Byrne is the stuff legends are made from). However, I had no idea the extent that Rich had invested in the “who’s who” of CRE and residential tech such as… – VTS – RealtyMogul – Comp…
CRETECH
CONTACTSeth Berk, CMO, DreamIt VenturesTHE SCOOPI had the pleasure of speaking with Seth Berk, CMO,DreamItVentures.com. Seth is one of the top marketing pro’s in the business and his focus now is on the DreamIt Urban Tech initiative.I have written about this really cool Accelerator on my blog as well. When speaking with Seth I was most interested in learning about how they are promoting this Accelerator on social media. Really innovative and leading-edge digital strategies…
CRETECH
CONTACT Sce Pike, CEO, IOTAS, Inc. THE SCOOP Discovering all the wonderful new real estate tech sites and the entrepreneurs behind them is how I get to spend most of my time. Really blessed. It’s a wonderful job. One of those sites and the entrepreneur behind it that really caught my attention is the CEO of IOTAS, Sce Pike. With over 15 years of experience and two successful tech companies on her resume, Sce is no stranger to the tech space. Sce and her team at IOTAS make Smart Apar…
CRETECH
CONTACTOlga Koroleva, Co-Founder, CapitalBrain THE SCOOPHow many CRE tech founders have climbed like every top mountain in the world (Everest is next apparently)??? To my knowledge, ONE..Olga Koroleva!!! Had a great time chatting with Olga and getting to know her and more about her really amazing site, CapitalBrain.co. Olga has a deep background in real estate investing and analytics and saw a huge opportunity in building an intelligence platform for sal…
Subscribe to CREtech to get our monthly newsletter curated by our editors and special event discounts and announcements.
or sign in if you're already a member