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2025 REACH Cohort Announced

2025 REACH Cohort Announced

Geek Estate is about celebrating entrepreneurship, focused on real estate tech (residential and commercial). The REACH program, backed by the National Association of Realtors and Second Century Ventures, is a big part of the broader ecosystem. This week, the 2025 US Resi Cohort was announced….

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Achieve Your Financial Goals with Hassle-Free Real Estate Investments

Achieve Your Financial Goals with Hassle-Free Real Estate Investments

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of GEM Diamond. Today’s showcase comes as one of our first Peer Circles participants: Concreit] A fractional private real estate investment platform, Concreit allows users to invest in a diversified portfolio of fully…

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2025 REACH Commercial Applications Now Open

2025 REACH Commercial Applications Now Open

REACH operates a variety of accelerator programs around the globe, created and operated by Second Century Ventures and backed by NAR. The Commercial program offers education, mentorship and exposure for technology companies working to scale their businesses across the U.S. residential and commercial real estate…

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Peer Circles

Peer Circles

When I created GEM more than seven years ago, I knew GEM (Diamond)’s place in the world would be fostering deep industry relationships. Now, we’re ready to go even deeper to help proptech founders in the solitary journey they have undertaken. Relationship-building already happens at…

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2025 REACH Applications Now Open

2025 REACH Applications Now Open

REACH operates a variety of accelerator programs around the globe, created and operated by Second Century Ventures and backed by NAR. The program offers education, mentorship and exposure for technology companies working to scale their businesses across the U.S. residential and commercial real estate markets…

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REACH Canada 2025 Cohort Announced

REACH Canada 2025 Cohort Announced

REACH operates a variety of accelerator programs around the globe, created and operated by Second Century Ventures and backed by NAR. The REACH Canada program offers education, mentorship and exposure for technology companies working to scale their businesses across Canada and expand into adjacent markets,…

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MetaProp Accelerator Applications are Open

MetaProp Accelerator Applications are Open

Applications for the 10th Cohort of the MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University are open. The 22-week program provides up to 8 early-stage PropTech startups with access to strategic funding and new enterprise clients. The program has graduated over 50 startups who have collectively raised over $200M in…

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REACH UK 2024 Cohort Announced

REACH UK 2024 Cohort Announced

REACH operates a variety of accelerator programs around the globe, created and operated by Second Century Ventures and backed by NAR. The program offers education, mentorship and exposure for technology companies working to scale their businesses across the UK and European markets and expand into…

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2024 REACH Commercial Scale-Up Cohort Announced

2024 REACH Commercial Scale-Up Cohort Announced

  REACH Commercial program, backed by the National Association of Realtors and Second Century Ventures, announced the companies selected for its 2024 Commercial Scale-Up program: Acres: A geospatial land research platform designed for brokers and agents involved in land transactions. Infinityy: Uses immersive AI companions…

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Optimizing Property & Land Potential with AI

Optimizing Property & Land Potential with AI

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of GEM Diamond. Today’s showcase: CityBldr] A SaaS-enabled product used by enterprise, mid-market and local companies in the real estate, investments, lending, AEC, and planning industries, CityBldr uses proprietary analytics to locate, analyze,…

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