Edmond de Rothschild embraces AI with new fund

MetaProp has opened its popular accelerator programme to fresh applications from around the world. The winning startups will benefit from investor introductions, mentoring advice, industry connections and up to $250,000 financing.

What was hot on the conference stages and exhibition floor at the biggest ever pure proptech gathering in the UK attended by nearly 2,000 people in London on Tuesday?

Massive valuations in IPOs such as Uber, Lyft and Pinterest show what a seller’s market it is in tech right now and the property side is no exception. Nicola Byrne sat down with Ben Lerner, mergers and acquisitions advisor, to talk about the ripple effect of investment on consolidation and maturity in the proptech industry.

Property professionals and technology entrepreneurs from across the world were travelling to London on Monday to attend FUTURE: PropTech.

Automated valuation models are among the emerging technologies predicted to sweep through the industry's professional ranks in the coming years. 

KPMG asked 740 “tech industry leaders” about their innovation priorities and found IoT the biggest likely winner in the next three years and increasing scepticism of artificial intelligence.

The Series D investment round was led by the tech investment arm of Brookfield Asset Management and is believed to be the largest venture financing made for commercial real estate software.

Emma Cullen, chief operating officer of Palmer Capital, joined PlaceTech to chat about her interesting career journey and Palmer's digital transformation.

A digital parking solution, smart glass system and 3D city modelling tool were among technologies pitching in the semi-finals of the PropTech Startup Europe Awards.