What Matters This Week - 11.20.20
Did anything happen outside the AirBnB S1?
What Matters This Week is a summary of articles, news, and fundings that mattered this week in (commercial) Property Technology. It helps you cut through the hype and marketing fluff that assaults our inboxes.
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Fundings:
Realync, a virtual leasing platform for MF, raised $22M from Susquehannah Growth.
News:
Check out the S1 for AirBnB here.
Rest in Peace Domio, maybe?
AutoDesk just bought Spacemaker for $240M! Congrats to our friends at Round Hill on the big exit.
Welcome to Coworking subscriptions, WeWork. Took you long enough!
Looks like there is a new PropTech incubator in Hong Kong.
Articles:
Nice to see our friends at Canvas getting some press from Venture Beat.
The WSJ profiles Neighbor.com - “The AirBnB for storage”.
Dror opines on AirBnB (while trying to get you to buy his book).
Malls are (wisely) getting in to the E-commerce game.
TechCrunch has a nice article on construction tech.
Listen:
Nexus has Joe Gaspardone talk about the business case for smart buildings.
Research:
Check out a basic comp analysis of smart/living walls as we have been thinking about indoor air quality (IAQ):
One Last Thing:
If you don’t already subscribe to Chartr, do it now. It’s free. Then, come back and check out this image they created from AirBnB’s S1.
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