What Matters This Week - 11.08.25

Article, Metropolis, and Moved Acquisition.

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In Case you Missed It:

• Profit isn’t purpose.

Fundings:

• Metropolis, a CRE parking/payment app, raised a $500M D round led by LionTree.

• Point, a home equity investment platform, raised a $390M round.

• Infravision, energy grid maintenance drones, raised a $91M B round led by GIC.

• Digs, a resi construction mgmt stack, raised a $19M seed round led by SPLY.

• Downstream, a construction services mrkt, raised an $8M A round led by Moneta.

• Billd, a CRE lending platform, raised $7.3M led by MissionOG.

• Cactus, copilot for resi services, raised a $7M seed round led by Wellington.

• Freeda, a French pre-construction analysis co, raised €3.4M in funding led by Frst.

• C.Scale, a pre-con design insights stack, raised a $2M pre-seed led by Active.

• WaveeAi, a UK resi and MF resident mgmt app, raised a £1M seed round.

• NetVendor, a CRE/ MF vendor mgmt stack, received funding from Five Arrows.

News:

• Moved acquired Paylode.

• Homemove acquired Home.co.uk.

• Suffolk Technologies’ Boost 6 Cohort announced: ARKI, Cyphra, DIG Energy, Hardline, MOD, Neuron Factory, Ouros, and Puppet.

Podcasts:

• Ep #29: Vanessa Larco | Co-Founder & GP of Premise VC (The Daniel Dart Board)

Articles:

• Compliance Is Construction’s Next Data Problem (Vertical AI Opportunities)

• Commercial Real Estate’s AI Journey: High Adoption, Low Achievement (HNR)

• 5 Hot Real Estate Tech Trends (Inman)

• MF EV Charging? (Commercial Observer) ($)

• Article Summaries

  • Commercial Real Estate’s AI Journey, 5 hot Real Estate tech trends, and Compliance is Construction’s Next Data Problem.

Other Newsletters:

• Issue #3 (BET)

• Fly on the Wall (Fifth Wall)

• Inman Select (Inman)

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