MRI targets housing with Orchard acquisition

Proptech VC, Pi Labs, has announced its eighth pre-seed growth programme comprising five start-ups who will benefit from a tailored 15-week intensive programme.

PlaceTech contacted companies across the proptech landscape this week to capture their thoughts on the immediate response to the outbreak, the forecast impact on tech adoption and what shape the industry will take in future as a result.

To help the property tech community continue doing business in a time of reduced face-to-face networking and events, PlaceTech has reduced the prices of online opportunities by 30% until the end of June.

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All Round Security has rolled out a mobile facilities workforce system connecting field service engineers in real-time to the office as part of an end-to-end management system.

“Candle is a challenge to the industry to do better,” says Tijmen Schep, the Dutch inventor behind a privacy friendly smart home concept. “It’s a challenge, like a slap in the face of Google and all those companies like, ‘Hey why don’t do you do it differently?’”

The startup used by Accenture and Dropbox for staff access, has launched a reader that can be installed behind existing access card readers in less than five minutes. Before now, companies that wanted to enable smartphone-based building access had to replace their existing kit.

Dublin clients already signed up include Irish Life Investment Managers, Kennedy Wilson, Round Hill Capital, Tristan Capital and Patrizia.

AMF Fastigheter, one of Sweden’s largest and most innovative real estate companies, is on track to implement the roll-out of the Mallcomm based app KUNO, to connect users across 36 offices covering 7m sq ft of real estate in the Swedish capital.

The MetaProp Accelerator @ Columbia University is the foundation that started MetaProp in 2015 and its Demo Day is the culmination of an intense 22 weeks.