What Matters This Week - 9.9.23
Look at all that green steel!
What Matters This Week - articles, news, and fundings that mattered this week in PropTech. No hype or marketing.
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Fundings:
H2 Green Steel, a Swedish decarbonized steel maker, raised a €1.5B round.
Boston Metal, a decarbonized steel maker, raised a $122M C round extension.
Andorix, a Canadian smart building system integrator, raised a $40M Debt and Equity round led by Voya.
UrbanVolt, an Irish solar service platform, raised a £22.3M round led by Verdane.
Digs, a collab platform for homebuilders and vendors, raised a $13.4M round.
Okra Solar, an Australian electrification startup for off-grid houses, raised a $12M A and Debt round led by One.
Lumen Energy, a solar financing platform, raised an $11M A round led by Ajax.
Treon, a Finnish IoT developer for CRE, raised a €5.5M A round led by Ventech.
SkyCool, a sustainable building cooling startup, raised a $5M Seed round led by Nadel and Gussman.
Flipspaces, an Indian design platform, raised a $4M Pre-B and Debt round.
Onsemble, a startup turning boilers into power plants, raised a $3M Seed round.
Listing Loop, an Australian listing portal, raised an A$2.1M A round.
Clay Financial, a Canadian equity platform, raised a CA$1.7M Pre-Seed round.
Smino, a German construction management SaaS, raised a round from UBS.
News:
WeWork CEO says it will renegotiate ‘nearly all of their leases.’
Google to begin selling maps data to companies building solar products.
Articles:
Top-tech read of the week:
Intelligent vs Smart by (my favorite) Morgan Housel.
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