How Blackstone Picks Proptech Firms To Fund And Where It Will Be Looking Next
Bisnow
Every quarter, Blackstone gathers heads across its portfolio companies and asks them something simple: Where are all the challenges in the business?
Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Bisnow
Every quarter, Blackstone gathers heads across its portfolio companies and asks them something simple: Where are all the challenges in the business?
Marketwatch
Arden Group (“Arden”), a fully integrated real estate company, today announced the appointment of Poonam Sharma Mathis as Board Member and Venture Partner. She will lead Arden’s venture capital initiative and investment efforts, which will focus on opportunities to invest in startups enhancing efficiency in the operations of real estate.
Commercial Observer
Global energy giant BP has acquired Manhattan-based Blueprint Power, a proptech startup that has built proprietary software enabling real estate portfolios to become sources of cleaner flexible power, BP announced Thursday.
Bisnow
Chad Tredway, who has been the lead real estate lender at the world’s largest bank since 2017, has left to set up his own real estate investment shop. Tredway, formerly the group head and managing director of real estate banking at JPMorgan, is launching a new firm with $250M in equity from an unnamed investor to invest in U.S. real estate, he said this week….
Pathr.ai
Pathr.ai, the industry’s first and only Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Spatial Intelligence platform, today unveiled its Sensor Layer v2.0 software and announced its expansion beyond the retail space to new verticals such as commercial real estate, grocers, manufacturing, industrial, and critical infrastructure. The new software integrates directly with a physical space’s existing infrastructure – delivering fast, cost-effective solutions to companies who want to understand how people move…
Placetech
In a move that recognises both the opportunities and risks of adopting tech in real estate, JLL has appointed a chief information security officer.
CREtech
Ami Ziff of Time Equities discusses new ways technology is evolving the way he does business from acquisitions to leasing to evaluating property performance.
Willow
Willow, the leading provider of digital twin solutions for smart infrastructure and real estate, has successfully completed its latest funding round, raising in excess of US$43 million. The bridging round, which was finalized in August 2021, will enable the scaled deployment of Willow’s software to a global customer base. This follows their Series A in late 2019, in which they raised in excess of US$40 million. Many of Willow’s existing shareholders elected to increase their investment in the c…
TechCrunch
During the pandemic and shift to remote work that came with it, many people took advantage of their newfound flexibility to try living in different places. One startup poised to benefit from this is Zeus Living, which is focused on giving people “flexible living” options and has just raised $55 million in a round led by SIG. Initialized Capital, CEAS Investments, TI Platform, NFX, Opendoor’s Eric Wu and Miras also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $125…
AlphaMap
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