Just today, Revaluate announced they were accepted to BoomTown, in Boulder. This week, MetaProp NYC announced their first selections for their inaugural batch. The 5 companies that were announced are: Rentalutions – platform for landlords that allows them to complete a host of duties electronically, saving time and money….

    John Backes and Sean Caho believe that Dallas should be the epicenter of real estate technology. Together they have founded an accelerator to help early stage real estate technology companies get access to funding and resources. Since announcing on 6/23, The Motive accelerator…

Beyond MetaProp NYC, there is another new accelerator launching in this fall in the real estate vertical — MOTIVE. It’s in Dallas and managed by Sean Caho and John Backes. They will select 10 companies, who will each receive $40,000 in funding. Early stage entrepreneurs: Apply here.

MetaProp NYC, an accelerator in New York City, is now open for business. I’ve long believed there is an opportunity to fill in the “real estate accelerator” market (see this post & this one), and MetaProp seems like they can execute on it. They have a…

Real estate is one of the largest consumer tech verticals there is — yet is lacking a major incubator/accelerator for seed stage startups. Joel wrote about this in 2011, as did I (since 2011, I’ve gone through Start-Up Chile so I’m slightly more knowledgeable on the topic of…

I think we all understand the importance of innovation as the lifeblood of the economy as a whole. It’s pretty simple equation — if businesses don’t innovate and improve, they get beat by others who do. But innovation doesn’t just “happen”. Far from it actually….