This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
GLOBAL real estate firm Colliers has unveiled its 2018 class of PropTech startups program, picking entrepreneurs from nine cities in seven countries, from a diverse field of expertise including commercial datasets for occupiers and investors, flexible office space, big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, just to name a few.
Colliers chairman and CEO Jay Hennick said this program is part of the agency’s focus on targeted innovation that will enable Colliers to create solutions, shape technologies and find opportunities to advance our business and accelerate success.
“Each startup in our Class of 2018 has been carefully selected for investment based on their approach to near-term, value-enhancing opportunities for our clients and professionals as well as longer-term opportunities that, with strong technology platforms, will help us push industry boundaries.
“Our class will have access to more than 100 Colliers and industry mentors, as part of the Colliers Proptech Accelerator, giving them an exceptional opportunity to test, pilot and grow their companies,” he said.
Hennick said over the next 13 weeks, the Class of 2018 will work from the Techstars Accelerator space in Toronto to refine their business plans and gain traction with the market, while accelerating their fundraising strategies and developing Demo Day presentations.
At the end of the program, each startup will present to investors and mentors at Demo Day on December 4, 2018.
The entrepreneur selected are:
- A Retail Space (New York, U.S.). A Retail Space finds the perfect location for your business through data.
- Basking (Berlin, Germany). io is an ROI-driven building automation platform for the flexible office space market.
- Booqed (Hong Kong, China). Booqed is a digital marketplace for flexible space, helping to connect businesses needing places to work, meet or host an event, with landlords seeking to monetize under-utilized space.
- Lane (Toronto, Canada). Lane is the operating system for your building, streamlining building operations on a cloud-based platform you can access anywhere.
- MapYourProperty (Toronto, Canada). MapYourProperty is a Google Maps for Real Estate Land Development, simplifying the planning process to a 3-click solution.
- Propstack (Mumbai, India). Propstack is a data & analytics company that helps predict real estate market trends and enables efficient transactions.
- Raybased (Gothenburg, Sweden). Raybased is the open wireless network for commercial real estate, communicating across all existing electrical systems to monitor, control and optimize functions such as heating, ventilation, lighting and building access.
- RefineRE (Dallas, U.S.). RefineRE leverages real-time market data to provide CRE portfolio intelligence for organizations looking to make smarter, better and faster decisions about buying, selling, leasing, expanding, or downsizing their property footprint.
- SPCE (London, U.K.). In partnership with Experian and the world’s top universities, SPCE allows the higher education community to search and pay for campus-specific, student rental properties and accrue a positive credit rating without the need for deposits or joint tenancy liability.
- Upsuite (Denver, U.S.). Where teams go to find coworking spaces.
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