May 19, 2021
Summary: In this episode the Propcast talks Idriss
Goossens from PropTech Lab, Alain Waha from Cogital, Alexandra
Nicoletti from Camber Creek and Travis Connors from Building
Ventures about Relevation 2021, the leading digital fundraising
summit for Proptechs, and about the changing landscapes of
VC.
The
Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of
LMRE the leading Global PropTech
recruiter, is brought to you in partnership with
CREtech and ReimTech. This show will
focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate funds and VC’s
globally…and get everyone talking about innovation of the build to
rent environment.
About Our Host
Louisa Dickins
Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known
estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved
over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a
Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by
PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5
core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive
recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa
is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association
(UKPA).
About LMRE
LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a more
comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent to
the place at the time. They are passionate about the industry and
passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time with each client
to become and an extension of the business, and their transparency
and core values help them grow with the sector. LMRE simplify
recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve the people
driven, PropTech community.
About Guests
Idriss Goossens
Idriss Goossen’s is the founder of
PropTech Lab (Belgium), PropTech
Lab are the Belgium community of innovators in the real estate
value chain. Their mission is to foster innovations in construction
and real estate and to ease digital transformation of the industry.
PropTech Lab help to connect and relate companies, start-ups and
investors, in order to underline the new trends of the market, to
promote industry advancements, to contribute influencing and
educating the market, and to foster collaboration and innovation in
the Belgian Real Estate community. Idriss is also the founder of
Relevation, which is the Global
Digital Fundraising Summit for PropTech. This event aims to
facilitate matchmakings between start-ups in fundraising process,
and investors ready to invest
.
Travis Connors
Travis Connors is the co-founder of Building Ventures where he
co-leads the Investment Committee. Building Ventures invests in
companies that are reshaping the way the built environment is
designed operated and experienced. Building Ventures partner with
visionary entrepreneurs who will have a profound effect on how and
where we live as humans on our planet. Travis currently manages the
firm’s involvement with
Smartvid.io as a member of the Board of
Directors. In addition, he works closely with the teams at
Blokable, Dandelion, Join Digital and Measurabl. Travis is a
New England native having attended Connecticut College and earned
his M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Alain Waha
Alain Waha is the co-founder of Cogital and leads Ventures and
Digital Strategy services. Cogital are an international Digital
Transformation Agency for the Built-Asset Environment. They
work with owners, consultants, contractors and ventures to guide
and support their digital transformation journey. Alain began his
career started in aerospace and automotive, deploying new business
models and information systems. He later transferred to the
construction industry in 2008 as CEO of Atlas industries, then CEO
and founder of a further 2 start-up in BIM and Digital services.
Alain also sits on advisory boards for VC funds, #contech and
#protech start-ups, and is the co-founder of the Process Innovation
Forum.
Alexandra Nicoletti
Alexandra Nicoletti is Senior Associate at Camber Creek, with over
10 years of transaction experience in real estate, investment
banking and private equity. Camber Creek is a venture capital firm
providing strategic value and capital to operating technology
companies focused on the real estate market. Alexandra earned her
bachelor’s degree at Duke University and went on to work at Goldman
Sachs, Apollo Global Management and Norges Bank, where she has
managed commercial real estate portfolios totalling over $10
billion in value.
Resources Referenced
Insights From This Episode
- We're also seeing a lot more real estate to strategics coming
into this space, and having a greater desire to participate in the
in the ecosystem, both from an adoption standpoint but also from a
direct investment standpoint – Alexandra
Nicoletti
- Do you want to have the support from generalistic VC? Do you
want to have the support from more specific and more personalized,
or specialized VC? So it's a big question you have to ask yourself
as founder – Idriss Goossens
- COVID certainly up ended everyone's thoughts around what we
needed space for what spaces we needed. But the simple reality is
we still spend 95% of our time indoors. And now we have more
choices about where that's going to be – Travis
Connors
- At the beginning, I think bottom up wins. But then over time,
expanding and putting a fundamental structural shift into the
market means that Europe becomes potentially more attractive
because you can you find a more structured environment where you
can sell, iterate, and then scale – Alain
Waha
- The volumes of capital that are deployed in the PropTech space
according to our data are really growing almost 100%, year after
year – Idriss Goossens
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