SmartRent goes public as $2.2bn SPAC deal completes

Property maintenance startup Plentific has raised $100m in Series C funding in a round led by Brookfield Technology Partners and Highland Europe.

Speaking to PlaceTech shortly after raising €30m in Series B funding, WeMaintain’s Benoit Dupont said his company is growing within a part of the market where tech solutions often collect data and tell landlords what the issues in a building are – but fail to deliver the solutions themselves.

Dutch developer EDGE has been granted planning permission for what it says will be the UK capital’s greenest tower.

A Silicon Valley drone startup and a Portuguese smart city tech provider have come up with a way of building drone infrastructure networks by retrofitting existing streetlights.

Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s innovation business, has created a low-cost, real-time sensor to manage and understand how parking spaces are used in an effort to kickstart better placemaking.

Backed by JLL Spark and A/O Proptech, Safehub has raised $9m in Series A funding to expand its disaster analytics software.

JLL’s e-commerce platform, where clients get the chance to buy from approved suppliers at discounted rates, has welcomed Scandinavian internet of things manufacturer Disruptive Technologies.

The company that ‘gives homes a brain’, has acquired two UK solar energy businesses as it scales up the rollout of its net-zero energy products.