Bimble raises £1.3m to enable consumers to save ‘placelists’

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.

NewFlex, part of the Newable office group, has acquired London-based space-as-a-service start-up, Bold.

Site selection tool LandTech has secured major investment from JLL Spark, advised by Concrete VC, of an undisclosed sum in the millions of pounds.