What Matters This Week - 12.21.20

Fundings around/before the holidays

What Matters This Week is a summary of articles, news, and fundings that mattered this week in (mostly commercial) Property Technology. It cuts through the hype and marketing that assaults our inboxes.

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Fundings:

• GoFor, a Canadian last-mile logistics startup, raised $20M (CAD) from Builders and MetaProp.

• HomeLister raised a $4.5M Seed from MetaProp and Homebrew.

• Branch Technologies, 3D printing for construction, raised $11m led by Equipment Share.

• Avenue 8, a tech enabled residential brokerage, raised $4M led by Craft Ventures.

News:

• Steve Wozniak launched a tokenized marketplace for buildings to pay for “green” projects.

• A/O PropTech joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community.

Listen:

• Why is Technology in Buildings is Decades Behind by Nexus.

In Case You Missed It:

• We published the third part in our series called The Truth About Angel Investing.

One Last Thing:

• Check out this simple but useful data viz from Bain Capital on the construction value chain:

  

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