What Matters This Week - 01.31.26
Emirati STRs, LatAm acquisition, and this month in AI
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This Month in Property AI:
Homesage.ai launches AI Comps to accelerate Property valuations (Clarion)
OurPetPolicy, an AI pet mgmt tech for STR, raised $8M led by RET (Saas News)
Plume acquired Ireland’s Sweepr - AI customer-care orchestration co. (Plume)
RedSeaGlobal + Bunat to launch a fund dedicated to investing in AI. (VC Wire)
Humans& - AI startup founded by Anthropic, xAI, Google alums, raised $480M (TechCrunch)
Fundings:
Property Finder, an Emirati STR marketplace, raised $170M led by Mubadala.
Orbital, a British RE legal AI co, raised a $60M B round led by Brighton Park.
Visitt, a CRE ops platform, raised a $22M B round led by Susquehanna.
Cambio, RE investor decision engine, raised an $18M A round led by Maverick.
Yakeey, a Moroccan Resi/ MF/ CRE market, raised a $15M A round led by IFC.
Brickanta, a Swedish pre-con workflow, raised an $8M seed led by Northzone.
MaterialSpace, construction planning tech, raised a $7M seed led by StageOne.
Gyde, a RE brokerage platform, raised $60M led by Lightspeed.
Carbonaide, a Finnish CO2 mineralization platform, raised €3.7M led by Vantaan.
Oro, a platform for employee homeownership benefits, raised $3M led by Slauson.
GoCanopy, an OS for RE investors stack, raised a €2.1M seed round led by ISAI.
News:
Colombia’s Tuhabi acquires Mexico’s Pulppo marketplace. (Latam List)
2026 Ivory Prize Finalists Announced (Construction & Design)
BoulderMOD, Build Reuse, Canibuild, Coalfield Development: Revitalize Appalachia, Okibo, SoLa Impact: Model/Z, TradesFutures, and Type Five.
Articles:
AI Leapfrogging (NfX)
Is AI in PropTech overhyped? (Commercial Observer)
Real-Estate Tech Gets the Message: Focus on Affordability (Wall Street Journal) ($)
How PropTech is Redefining the Real Estate Broker (Tech Bullion)
Article Summaries:
Long Reads:
On Technologies vs. Commodities (Construction Physics)
Other Newsletters:
AI Isn’t Replacing Asset Managers. It’s Replacing the Mess, and What AI Actually Does in Asset Management (All About CRE)
Fly On The Wall (Fifth Wall)
The latest tech transforming the Built World (Suffolk Technologies)
Top Tech Read of the Week:
Being Right Is Not a Strategy (Perishable Knowledge)
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- Morgan Housel
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