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No Slowdown in PropTech Startup Investment in 2020 Despite COVID-19
January 18th, 2021COVID Safety & Compliance Becomes Driving Force for Adoption of Smart Buildings
January 13th, 2021
Google Digital Buildings Project: Putting the Internet into the Building Internet of Things
The Internet was first conceived as a platform for academics to share information through a structured worldwide web of peer-to-peer connections. As it turned out, everyone else wanted to share information too, leading to the open, user-led, beautiful mess we see online today. Opening up the Internet to the world allowed anything and everything imaginable […]

De-Risking Building Management with Insured Business Outcomes and Predictive Analytics
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Alliances between smart building solution providers and Insurance companies are enabling improved building performance through predictive analytics and insurance-backed guarantees. Three examples from early innovators described in this article reduce the risk that a company takes when deploying a new technology and may […]

A Year in The Life of a Building — The Turbulent Story of 2020
The beginning of 2020 seems like a long time ago. While COVID-19 was already starting to make an impact in China and neighboring countries, for the rest of the world it was just another January. In the smart building industry, we were talking about Amazon, Apple, and Google asserting their dominance over the smart home […]

Will SPACs Offer an Alternative Exit Route for Companies in the Smart Buildings Space?
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In 2020, an alternative to a conventional IPO – Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) – took the innovation landscape by storm, according to Michael Holman of Lux Research. “A SPAC is an alternative to a conventional initial public offering (IPO) in which an […]
Recording: Verified Smart – Assessing Smart Building Performance Outcomes
Here is the Video Recording from our 11th Free Webinar of the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. Verified Smart: Assessing Smart Building Performance Outcomes. Memoori is joined by Patrick Sweeney, VP Sales and Marketing at TIA & Tom Blewitt, CTO Connected Technologies at UL to discuss the new SPIRE Smart Building Assessment and Rating Program. We […]

The Post-COVID Office Return Lays the Foundation for Human-Centric Workplaces
This time last year, medical professionals in Wuhan, China, began to report cases of a “viral pneumonia of unknown cause” and the rest, as they say, is history. By March a global pandemic had been announced by the WHO and much of Europe and North America had been engulfed by the coronavirus, triggering lockdowns and […]

HVAC Manufacturers Collaborate with Startups to Unlock the Potential of Connected Buildings
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Two European HVAC manufacturers, ebm-papst and Belimo have accelerated investment in digital solutions and strategic partnerships with startups to enable rapid technology transfer for data-driven connected, energy efficient and healthy buildings. The ebm-papst group, headquartered in Mulfingen, Germany, is the world’s leading manufacturer […]
Recording: The Workplace Leader’s Handbook of the Digital Tools of Tomorrow
Here are the Audio Stream & Video from our 10th Free Webinar of the 2020 Smart Buildings Series. The Workplace Leader’s Handbook of the Digital Tools of Tomorrow. Memoori is joined by Sabine Ehm from Locatee to discuss the “Workplace Leader’s Handbook”. Being a Corporate Real Estate Manager in 2020 is more difficult than it […]