What Matters This Week - 4.5.25
Lots of small rounds this week
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Fundings:
Trust&Will, a digital estate planning co, raised a $25M C round led by Moderne.
Roam, an assumable mortgage platform, raised an $11.5M A round led by Khosla.
Beagle, an on-demand aerial data platform, raised a €5M Seed round led by PT1.
Specter, a constr mgmt software, raised a €5M Seed round from Shilling VC.
Vallor, an AI contract mgmt platform, raised a $4M Seed round led by Dynamo.
TwinKnowledge, an AEC insights co, raised a $3.7M Seed round led by Camber.
GridEdge, a CRE decarbonization co, raised a £2.8M round led by Mercia.
Howie, an AEC AI Copilot, raised a €600K Seed round led by Pi Labs.
BlueHeart, a resi heat pump solution, raised a round led by Copeland.
Ejendom, a property ops co, raised an undisclosed Pre-Seed round from KRING.
Jurny, a STR PMS, raised an undisclosed round from Paz Levy & others.
Prophetic, a zoning & property analysis tool, raised an undisclosed Seed round led by Entrada.
News:
Articles:
Construction Labor Shortage’s Newest Culprits? Deportations and Inflation. (CO)
How Cities Are Turning Empty Offices Into Housing. (Propmodo)
Want Abundance in Housing? (Reihan Salam)
Top Tech Read of the Week:
Vision Large Language Models (vLLMs) (Cameron Wolfe)
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Source: $1M Homes in Prime Global Markets (Visual Capitalist)
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