What Matters This Week - 10.4.25
Big EV round plus two in Brazil
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Fundings:
WAAT, a French provider of EV charging for resi/CRE, raised €100m led by DWS.
Pacaso, a marketplace for co-owned STRs, raised $72.5M+ via a Regulation A+.
Baselane, a payments tech for CRE, raised a $20M B round led by Thomvest.
Plantd, a carbon-negative building materials co, raised a $22M B round.
Lastro, a Brazilian chatbot for buying/renting, raised a $15M A round led by Prosus.
Cyvl, a 3D mapping for site inspections, raised a $14M A round led by Sentinel.
CredAluga, a Brazilian rent guarantee tech, raised an $11M A round led by Provence.
Anode, mobile microgrids for constr sites, raised a $9M Seed round led by Eclipse.
Optimuse, an Austrian green pre-constr stack, raised a $4.7M seed led by Blum.
Viboo, a Swiss CRE automation software, raised a €3.3M seed led by Realyze.
Boldr, a British home energy mgmt tech, raised a $3.2M seed round led by Ada.
Argu, an Israeli AI site security camera, raised a $2M pre-seed round led by 1948.
Hospitable, an STR mgmt app, raised over $1.5M in funding.
News:
5 states sue Zillow/ Redfin for antitrust violation in online rental housing (CNBC)
Aurelius acquired Xylem’s North American water & heat metering assets (BusinessWire)
Australia’s REA Group acquired Canada’s iGuide (Elite Agent)
Articles:
Spending on data centers set to outpace office construction (Sherwood)
Is OpenAI the New WeWork? (Dror Poleg)
Rent Collection in the Age of AI (Insights by Blueprint) $
AI at the forefront of PropTech (Altus Group)
Article Summaries
Long Reads:
Building a Datacenter (for Dummies) Part I (Crucible Capital)
Terner Labs FY2025 Annual Report (Terner Labs)
Other Newsletters:
The Build-Up: October 2025 (Stellifi VC)
Top Tech Read of the Week:
“In any creative project, you can’t imagine what the end is going to be,
unless it is a very small thing you’re doing.”
—Robert Pirsig
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Source: @Sherwood
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