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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

TechCrunch

The property industry now requires high-quality photographs, floor plans and virtual tours, so the industry for software providers in the space is booming. The whole area was accelerated during the pandemic, when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upward.

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Giraffe360, a robotic camera for real estate, raises $4.5M from LAUNCHub and Hoxton Ventures

TechCrunch

Giraffe360 has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. Also participating is HCVC (Hardware Club), alongside existing investor Change Ventures. It has now raised $4.5 In the U.S.,

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5 Principles to Ensure Successful Implementation of AR/VR in Real Estate Firms

Trigent

AR/VR in real estate presents the perfect solution to the changing needs of discerning customers. The global AR VR in the real estate market ecosystem 1 is expected to grow at a CAGR of 31.2%, increasing in value from USD 298.6 Real estate needs digital transformation. million in 2018 to USD 1,151.9

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PassiveLogic, which creates digital twins of building systems, raises $15M

TechCrunch

“To get to the future of real estate, there needs to be a digital platform that can aggregate building data, [allowing] building managers to customize automation controls and act upon it in real-time.” Based on these predictions, PassiveLogic makes control and management decisions for maintenance and operation.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube. RED Atlas: A platform for real estate insights and analytics, focusing first on Puerto Rico. Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. PDT, with 19 companies presenting in all.

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

TechCrunch

The latest funding will be used for enhancing its B2B SaaS, investing in R&D for advanced virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and 3D tools, which are considered core technologies of metaverse that is its new business Urbanbase plans to enter, according to Ha. The company had raised Series A funding of $1.8

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It’s time to evolve beyond marketing to create meaningful metaverse moments

CIO

IBM missed the PC revolution when it started, Kodak didn’t see the potential of digital cameras, all three major card networks ignored peer-to-peer payments, and what has happened to all that Blockbuster real estate? Look for large, massively multiplayer gaming experiences with huge adoption.

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