What Matters This Week - 05.30.26
Entrata's IPO, some acquisitions, and REACH cohort
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This Month in PropTech AI:
HomeLight, Illoca, Davis, eVoost, and ThaloLabs raised funding rounds.
Companies acquired: PurchasePlus, NantumAI, Meteoviva, and Restb.ai.
Fundings:
NavigateAI, construction workflow co-pilot, raised a $25M seed round led by EG.
LightTable, construction QC stack, raised a $22M A round led by IE.
CasaPerks, a rent rewards platform, raised a $15.8M seed round led by Longevity.
Landeed, an Indian title search stack, raised an $8.3M seed round led by Bayhouse.
Mykor, a British prefab materials company, raised £4M led by Clean Growth Fund.
News:
Autodesk acquired MaintainX (BainCapital)
CoStar acquired Zonda (Business Wire)
Entrata files for IPO (WSJ)
Denver will pilot what's called a thermal energy network (NPR)
Report: Global PropTech Confidence Index (MetaProp)
Second Century Ventures announces REACH 2026 Cohort (RisMedia)
Podcasts/ Videos:
Articles:
AI is rewriting the brokerage playbook (HousingWire) ($)
Blackstone, Brookfield for Custom AI; PropTech Could Pay The Price (BisNow) ($)
HOA Assessment Surge in 2025; Growing Role for PropTech Analytics (TipRanks)
How AI is rewiring PropTech (IREI)
Article Summaries:
Long Read:
Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding? (Construction Physics)
Other Newsletters:
Feroce May 2026 Newsletter (Feroce)
Where Do You Underwrite the Next Space City? (Build Order)
Fly On The Wall (Fifth Wall)
Events:
Top Tech Read of the Week:
How to Tax AI Profits (Dror Poleg)
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