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Ren Systems Raises $3.5M, Partners With ZoomInfo to Bring AI-powered Relationship Intelligence to Dealmakers at 35,000 Businesses
The $3.5M round was led by JLL Spark Global Ventures, the venture arm of commercial real estate firm JLL, with participation from Camber Creek, ZoomInfo, and Contour Ventures.
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JLL Spark Invests in Munich-Based PropTech Innovator PROBIS
Strategic investment to accelerate PROBIS’ AI-powered financial management solutions for real estate development and support global expansion
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Proptech Greets Another Unicorn With Roofstock’s $240 Million Series E Fundraise
Roofstock, a platform for investing in the single-family rental rental market, announced yesterday a Series E raise of $240 million, raising its valuation to $1.94 billion.
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Bloomberg: Proptech Startup OpenSpace Reaches Valuation of $902M
OpenSpace, a startup that develops technology for the construction industry, raised $102 million in a new funding round that the company said gives it a valuation of $902 million.
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2022: The Future of Proptech VC
2021 was the year of the great bounce back in real estate tech as VCs set a new record for capital invested in proptech. So, what’s next?
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Proptech for the Planet
As technology applications evolve beyond the digital urgency created by the pandemic, Isobel Lee finds that industry startups are being asked to help real estate become great and green
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A Capital Idea
While VC funds increase their exposure to proptech and drive industry consolidation, traditional property firms are also allocating bigger budgets to digitalise processes
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After Proptech’s Monster 2021, Stage Set For Huge Adoption, Investment In 2022
Real estate technology’s banner 2021, which has seen a record-setting $9.5B invested in the sector through mid-November, came from a confluence of an increased demand for data analytics, the belief that more efficient offices or energy systems could tempt workers back to the office, and the desire save money while bolstering sustainability bona fides.
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Fundraising and M&A boom shows proptech is coming of age
What the biggest deals of 2021 say about the proptech sector
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Inside JLL’s Technology Investment Strategy
It’s safe to say that technology is rapidly changing the condition of real estate management. JLL, one of the most prominent players in commercial real estate, has been heavily focused on their technology strategy, by investing in proptech companies through their global venture fund, JLL Spark, building technology products internally or acquiring companies. Over the…
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‘They Monetized Change’: Big Commercial Brokerages Reach Deeper Into New Realms
Raj Singh is looking to invest in construction robotics. That’s not head-turning news for the head of a typical venture capital firm, but that’s not where he works. Singh is a San Francisco-based managing director of JLL Spark, the technology investment arm of the Fortune 500 commercial real estate services giant that can trace parts of its company…