PropTechs are also often closely related to mobility issues such as smart parking or charging spots when addressing the issue of the “city of the future”, or to FinTech (technologies in the financial sector), for example in relation to loans or mortgages. CleanTech plays a major role, as the real estate sector is one of the largest consumers of energy and therefore especially the topic of energy efficiency is of great importance.

Further: HighRise Ventures, Rivus Capital, Hevella Capital, A/O Proptech, Ampolon Ventures (CVC), Vito Ventures (CVC), Signa Ventures (CVC). Furthermore many more generalistic investors invest in PropTech and ConTech startups. If you are looking for specific investors reach out to us.

If you want to get a general overview of the subject of PropTech, taking a closer look at these blogs will be a good idea.

So-called PropTech Maps are also useful for a quick survey. These usually refer to a local market and are shared on different sites, like the blogs mentioned here.

Also, more common media occasionally serve as PropTech information sources. Especially about current investments and financing rounds these magazines keep interested parties up to date:

Accelerator, investors and various networks have already made it their goal to integrate start-ups into real processes and let them participate in what is happening in the industry. By 2016, the digital transformation was still only cited as a constant component of business strategy by 24% of the 2,000 companies from the real estate sector surveyed in the “Digitalisierungsindex Mittelstand”, a study commissioned by Deutsche Telekom. Today we can see from various examples of large companies that the importance and potential have finally been recognized:

The Innovation Think Tank of the “Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss” (Central Real Estate Committee) has been driving forward the culture of innovation for years through innovative cooperation. With Propinnovators, there is also a network for connecting users and providers in the construction and real estate industry and the network offers a variety of case studies of collaboration between these players.

Other examples of companies that have understood the importance of start-up cooperation are: 

Good news for all people not involved in the real estate industry is that they can and will still participate in the PropTech revolution. Because even if many startups are in the B2B sector, B2C`s or even B2B2C`s will have a remarkable impact on everyday life within the next years.

Central technologies such as BIM, VR, AR, sensor technology, robotics, AI, IoT, blockchain or 3D printing will play a major role and have a long-term effect on society. Some of the goals addressed by PropTech are:

In addition to our forecast, we have asked some experts about their expectations for the development of the PropTech world in 2020. They tell us what the real estate industry can expect:

The start-up market is considered to be very intransparent, which is due to the fact that new companies are founded and registered every day, but a large number of them are also closed down. In contrast to the usual search for a company, in this case there are initially no annual financial statements and none to few references available. In addition, start-ups often change their business models and are by definition subject to high risk. For interested medium-sized and larger companies, this complicates even the first impression. Insights from the outside are therefore extremely vague, but can be made more precise by a certain start-up understanding and experience.

In order to share this understanding and years of experience in the startup landscape, Ambivation offers various services, such as the research of relevant startups in a Startup-Monitoring, or strategic cooperation consulting and event formats such as tailor-made Startup-Tours.