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Helping the Building OpTech industry better understand itself. Independent analysis of the companies, deals, and trends shaping Building OpTech—for executives, investors, founders, and product leaders.
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Situation Room: ThoughtWire Bankruptcy and Asset Sale (opens the original)
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We’re writing a special issue and launching a new newsletter franchise focused on in-progress market developments that you should be aware of. Specifically ThoughtWire, a former innovator in digital twin technology, has shutdown and is holding an asset sale. Bids are due in early October.In this post we investigate the history of the firm, what we think went wrong, and what this means for the industry. This is a new special issue format, and we have three core sections below:Backstory: How We Go
Digging into European smart building tech, featuring Lookthrough and BuildingMinds (opens the original)
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Another issue focusing on startup fundraising and product launches, which includes a DEAL DESK about Lookthrough’s acquisition of BuildingMinds, a firm incubated and funded by elevator OEM Schindler. We also explore the wider European market for smart building technology, which has been quite active. This builds on our other analyses of firms such as Deepki<a href="https://smartbuil
Our updated startup leaderboard (opens the original)
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We’re back with our early month issue focused on acquisitions, partnerships and public firm updates. To get right to it, this issue covers:We’ve updated our startup innovator leaderboard, adding more vendorsA continued healthy market for acquisitions and partnerships, and we have all of them in our digest.A few public sector firms in our market provided data on their expected growth, investments in capabilities, and potential acquisitions.For anyone attending SBX in Seattle in November, <a href=
DEAL DESK: Facility Grid makes a splash; Smart building tech continues to dance with facility management (opens the original)
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We’re writing a special issue because there continue to be notable acquisitions that are either high impact or should change your perspective on the market (and the competitive landscape).Facility Grid buying PingCx fits into the latter category: While Facility Grid is not often considered a smart building solution vendor, it is supporting a few relevant use cases. We think the firm will continue to offer this breadth of capabilities moving forward, and even expand further into smart buildings a
Is Deepki following Asuene and also rolling up the ESG/sustainability data market? (opens the original)
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Summer slowdown? Not here - there’s another DEAL DESK to unpack, along with all of the other news from the world of smart buildings and Building OpTech.This issue covers:Two acquisitions for Deepki, we unpack this and more in our new DEAL DESK.A quick review of Asuene’s big new round. All the other product launches and funding rounds of note.A preview of our update to a 2018 piece investigating energy management software vendor scale and growth; showing significant changes in the leaderboard.Nee
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