Matterport expands EMEA team to support growth strategy

Navitas Capital, a California-based investor in proptech, has written an exhaustive 34-page report which explores the firm’s belief that AI is on the verge of disrupting these massive technologically analogue industries.

The latest edition of the TRENDS report is now available, tracing the biggest hires, most significant fundraising, hottest topics, riveting reads and the products making big waves so far this year.

In Nesta’s report, The Invisible Drag on UK R&D, the innovation charity studied the incentives for FTSE 350 executives and found that long-term plans discourage innovation.

UK-based property investment platform raises £200m, construction tech gets boost with $100m fund, and an app to make investment more accessible

While advisory groups the world over scramble to re-position themselves as tech-savvy innovators, Arup has been quietly taking care of business. Here’s a look at what the £1.6bn turnover planning-to-engineering group has been up to as it tries to seed technology throughout its 13,000-strong organisation.

Google's favoured AI property management platform, taking e-signatures and biometrics global, understanding human mobility by analysing a billion journeys, and a plug-and-play tenant experience.

The innovation teams at Savills and construction group John F Hunt will share their insights about driving change by adopting technology at PlaceTech’s next event in London.

Balfour Beatty Living Places and green infrastructure expert, Biotecture, are delivering the first  hydroponic living wall next to a highway in the UK, the pair claim.

MRI Software, a global real estate software firm, has acquired Leverton, an AI-powered data extraction tool for real estate and corporate documents.

A rapidly expanding shared storage platform, a document cruncher for lawyers and cheap energy meters for off-grid locations in Africa and Asia were among the fundraisers and takeover targets this week.

The UK government said a new Built Environment Sector Deal, will have among its core objectives “improving the sector’s productivity through improved access to data and the promotion of proptech.”