Essensys upbeat on product roadmap

The provider of digital identities for the physical world, has closed a Series B funding round led by Scale Venture Partners with existing investors Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator and new investors Silicon Valley Bank and West Ventures.

A new app platform, part of Google’s Digital Accelerator programme, gives you an easy way to collect, remember and share all the places you love.

Just 10 days after launching a fundraising campaign on investment platform Seedrs, Hyper Poland has achieved its €451,000 investment target.

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.

Appointments from across the world of property tech.

Dr Thomas Herr, EMEA head of digital innovation for CBRE, will join Evana as chief executive from 1 May, to steer the firm’s international expansion.

The London Stock Exchange-listed global provider of software to the flexible workspace industry, is enjoying “rapidly expanding US business”, the firm said in a trading update for the half year ended 31 January 2020.

UrbanFootprint, the location intelligence and urban planning software used by Aecom and the city of San Diego, has raised $11.5m to advance its offerings and grow its customer base of cities, urban planners, and companies across the energy, mobility, and real estate sectors.

Cherre, the NYC-based real estate data and analytics platform which boasts large real estate businesses Keller Williams and Oxford Property Group among its clients, has raised $16m in growth funding in a round led by Intel Capital.