What I Learned This Past Week - 4.19.23
AI integration everywhere
This Week’s Musings
A trend this week (and I suspect for weeks going forward) is the uptick in the number of proptech companies announcing some form of AI integration into their offering. I listed a few in this newsletter, but stopped adding them before this newsletter became just a massive relisting of these announcements. We are smack in the middle of the I’m an AI company too era.
Informative Articles I Read
Intelligent Software as a Service: Will Generative AI Unlock the True Potential of Vertical SaaS? (Medium) - Really insightful piece from Navitas Capital. Dig in and put your thinking caps on!
Cushman & Wakefield to Offer Digitization and Tokenization Services (CushmanWakefield) - Cushman & Wakefield will now help digitize the middle office through the tokenization and the trading of private real estate on secondary markets.
How NFTs Can Be Used In Real Estate (the VRsoldier) - This article surprised me multiple times. From the cool name of the publication, to the surprisingly good summary of NFT use cases in real estate, to the cool pic below, well worth the 2 minute read.
Podcasts/Events/Webinars/etc. That I Listened To
None this week
Innovative Companies I Discovered
Mansion - AI-platform reimagining property ownership for the next generation of renters, owners, investors, neighbors, and communities.
People You Need To Follow On LinkedIn
Patrick Murphy - CEO of Maket.
Web3/AI Announcements From Proptech Companies
Propy Announces Launch of Revamped Website with Connect Your Wallet Feature (Digital Journal) - Natural next step in Propy’s evolution as a web3 real estate transaction platform.
REI/kit Real Estate Wholesaling Software Launches Industry First SmartText AI Technology (AccessWire) - Brining AI capabilities to the real estate wholesaling space.
LandOnEarth, The Revolutionary Real Estate Platform, Adds ChatGPT to Power the Evolution of HomeMatch Technology (BusinessWire) - Moving beyond traditional filter-and-find to match homebuyers with properties.
Random But (un)Important Things I Stumbled On
Bruce Lee Enters Web3 with Open Edition NFT (NFTevening) - This is one mint I wish I had known about earlier.
1 big thing: The SEC names a few more securities (Axios) - I’ve previously reported on several real estate web3 solutions using Algorand and its layer 1 tech so the SEC official;y designating this token as a security is of particular note.
