[Editor’s note: Originally published on Vertical.] In 2017, I had a quick day trip to San Francisco. I was visiting family just south of the Bay Area in Carmel-by-the-Sea and needed a place to stay for the night after some meetings. I plugged into AirBnB…

HousingTech is curating the Start-Up Zone at the NAHB’s International Builders Show Feb. 9-12, which is an annual event for the housing industry that draws 100,000 people to Orlando. This year it will be a virtual gathering, but it will be its usual powerful platform…

 The (third quarter) results are in for proptech’s public companies. After the success of our first Earnings Radar for Q2, we are bringing it back for a second spin. Ben Godfrey put together a Q3 earnings overview, specifically for Zillow Group. You can read that here. Without further ado……

LMRE recently curated a panel discussion on the lessons from working in PropTech. Included in the conversation: Alicia Anderson – Director and Business Development at TheGuarantors Cassie Strouse – Manager, Partnerships & Business Development at Landis Charlie McComas – Vice President of Sales at Waypoint…

[Editor’s note: Originally published on the Thomvest Blog.] Opendoor, the nation’s largest iBuyer, is going public. It is doing so via a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Corp II (NYSE: IPOB), which is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) led by investor Chamath Palihapitiya. Opendoor published an investor presentation as…

REACH operates a variety of accelerator programs around the globe, created and operated by Second Century Ventures and backed by NAR. Its Great Britain version, REACH UK, will leverage a community of real estate industry executives, investors, mentors, and entrepreneurs across Europe and throughout the global…

[Note from the editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] Today we’re releasing an updated version of our commercial real estate technology market map. The full list of companies is available here, and a high-resolution version of the map can be accessed here. This market map includes more than 220…

The (second quarter) results are in for proptech’s public companies in 2020. We’re trying something new: synthesizing the most relevant topline information from the sector’s financial reports and balance sheets. It’s safe to say the market remains robust during this time of uncertainty, but the…

[Note from the editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] Today we’re pleased to release an updated version of the real estate technology market map we originally published in 2018. A high-resolution version of the map can be accessed here, and the full list of companies is available here. This…

One of the activities that take place within the GEM is practice investment pitches. One entrepreneur takes the hot seat and gives a 5-10 minute pitch to 5-9 other entrepreneurs from the community. Everyone on the call (we use Google Meet) then spends 20-40 minutes asking…