What Matters This Week - 7.26.25

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Fundings:

• Sunsave, a British solar subscription service, raised a £113M Series A led by Norrsken VC and IPGL, alongside a £100M debt facility from Crédit Agricole CIB.

• Buena, a German MF property mgmt platform, raised a $58M Series A led by GV.

• Thermondo, a German heating mgmt tool for resi, raised €50M in debt funding.

• TrunkTools, a construction analytics tool, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight ($)

• Asylon, a robotic security provider, raised a $24M Series B led by Insight.

• VIVLA, a Spanish fractional home ownership platform, raised €8M led by FJ Labs.

• SpacelyAI, a Thai rendering software for architects, raised a $1M seed led by PropTech Farm Fund III.

• Capitalize, a CRE data platform for Lenders, raised a seed round led by Lerer Hippeau.

News:

• Australia’s REA commits funding to 3D property visualization co - IMMERSIV.

• India’s Aurum acquired home brokerage platform - PropTiger, for INR 864.5M.

• REACH US Commercial announces Scale-Up Program, and REACH Middle East opens 2025 Real Estate Tech Accelerator applications.

Articles:

• Part 4 - How I Underwrite Founders and Opportunities.

  • Catch up on Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

• Article Summaries:

  • ‘Part 4 - How I Underwrite Founders and Opportunities’, ‘The next frontier in real estate: Data centers on the moon and space-support infrastructure’, and ‘Build your personal AI copilot’.

Long Reads:

• Data centers on the moon and space-support infrastructure (CNBC)

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