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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Philip Russo

    Energy Tech Company Novele Raises $17M Series A (opens the original)

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    Applied artificial intelligence energy company Novele announced Wednesday that it raised a $17 million Series A round to further expand its services nationally. Venture capital firm Boisei Labs led the oversubscribed round, with participation from VC Locke Health; Arup Ventures, the venture investment arm of the global built environment consulting firm Arup; national construction firm Barton Malow; and several of the largest commercial real estate owners and operators, according to Novele’s anno

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Philip Russo

    EliseAI, Manhattan-Based Proptech Unicorn, Raises $350M (opens the original)

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    EliseAI, an artificial intelligence company automating housing and health care systems, announced Tuesday that it has raised $350 million, bringing the proptech unicorn’s valuation to $4 billion. Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) and Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital. EliseAI will use the capital to accelerate the development and delivery of new products, automating more of its custome

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Philip Russo

    Venn Acquires Leasing Agent Company Zuma for $50M (opens the original)

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    Multifamily operating platform Venn acquired Zuma, a leasing company that uses agentic artificial intelligence, for $50 million. Founded in Tel Aviv and based in Manhattan, Venn is a sovereign — or bespoke — AI company connecting residents and buildings on a sole system, said Or Bokobza, its CEO. “We build what we call your company brain,” Bokobza said. “And we will never commercialize or share your data. What we build is specifically bespoke for you.” Venn serves more than 270 multifamily owner

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Philip Russo

    Mainstay Raises $18M and Acquires Truelist (opens the original)

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    Mainstay, a system of record for residential real estate, announced that it raised $18 million and acquired Truelist, an artificial intelligence-powered listing platform for brokers and agents. Carved out of Opendoor as an independent company in August 2024, San Francisco-based Mainstay combines proprietary data, pricing intelligence, and agentic automation to replace fragmented systems and manual workflows across buying, owning and selling homes. Its founding team spent more than a decade build

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Philip Russo

    Industrious to Provide Hologram-Like Google Beam Meetings (opens the original)

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    Industrious, a major flexible workplace company, announced Thursday that it has partnered with Google to launch a network of Google Beam meeting rooms exclusively for its members and guests. Google’s HP Dimension with Google Beam bills itself as an artificial intelligence-first video communication platform that renders meeting participants in their true size, positioned as if they were sitting around the same table. Spatial audio anchors each voice directly to the speaker, so people look, sound

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