What Matters This Week - 12.24.22

Huge round for Redaptive and CoStar wants to reduce the surplus population!

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Fundings:

• Redaptive, an “energy-efficiency-as-a-service” provider, raised a $200M round led by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

• SafeAI, autonomous driving for heavy-equipment, raised a $38M B round.

• Casavo, an Italian iBuyer, received a €10M investment from UniCredit.

• Samara, a Spanish resi solar solutions provider, raised a €4.5M Seed round co-led by Seaya and Pelion.

• Sensgreen, a Turkish IoT building monitoring system, raised a $2.5M Seed round led by Alesta.

• Billion Bricks, a Singapore builder of net-zero homes, raised a $2.45M Seed round led by Thakral.

• Spotlar, a Brazilian furnishing visualization and purchase platform, raised a $1.1M Seed round led by Terracotta.

• Inpoi, an Italian resi valuation startup, raised a €500K round led by IH1.

News:

• PropTech VC Funding Fell in 2022, but Climate Tech is Just Heating Up.

• PropTech in 2022: Zillow rebounds, iBuyers stumble, and MLSs grow up (Inman).

• CoStar Sues Crexi . . . again (GlobeSt).

Articles:

• The under-the-radar tech at the core of Matter’s smart-home platform. and . . .

• Here’s what it’s like to use the first Matter devices in the real world.

• Brendan Wallace On What’s Next After Closing $866M PropTech Fund.

• Role 5: The Commissioning Agent, by Nexus.

• 21 RE startups to bet your career on in 2023 (Insider $$).

Long read:

• Tech Office Trends and Outlook 2022, by JLL.

PropTech Twitter:

John Burns @johnburnsjbrec

It has been a pretty volatile 2 years for ibuyers, to say the least.

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