What I Learned This Past Week - 4.11.23
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This Week’s Musings
My 1124 day streak of being Covid free officially ended today! I had a good run, but am running on fumes tonight pushing out this newsletter.
Informative Articles I Read
Real Estate Is Just Not That Into the Metaverse . . . Yet (Commercial Observer) - I’ve see a few traditional real estate companies dip their toes in the metaverse but agree for the most part there isn’t much utility to be derived by these businesses today.
How AI is helping proptech overtake fintech investment and green the Built World (tech eu) - Interesting to read about built world AI happening in Europe.
Podcasts/Events/Webinars/etc. That I Listened To
The robots are here: What does real estate have to fear? (The Real Deal’s Deconstruct podcast) - Interesting discussion on the potential of AI to significantly disrupt the traditional real estate brokerage.
Russ Cofano on artificial intelligence in real estate marketing (Real Trends’ Real Trending podcast) - Hear from Collabra Technology’s CEO Ross Cofano on the trends in real estate marketing including the pros and cons of AI tech.
Innovative Companies I Discovered
hunter by LocalizeOS - Leveraging AI to engage leads for real estate agents at scale.
DataFlik - AI-powered list stacking and predictive modeling.
Moon Mortgage - Cryptocurrency lending platform with mortgage products.
mogul - Real estate property investment for as little as $100.
Nestfully - The Bumble of real estate?
People You Need To Follow On LinkedIn
Aaron Nevin - CEO of Moon Mortgage.
Web3/AI Announcements From Proptech Companies
Moon platform launches crypto-backed mortgage product (HousingWire) - $1M minimum mortgages with 100% crypto collateral.
Restb.ai Launches AI-Powered Property Descriptions For U.S. Real Estate (RisMedia) - Given some property descriptions I have read, these AI services can’t come soon enough.
RealEstate.Exchange owner DigiShares launches capital raise on its own tokenization platform (GreatReporter) - DigiShares taps its community for growth capital.
Random But (un)Important Things I Stumbled On
None this week