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Restructuring and Redundancies at Infogrid
January 3rd, 2023Digital Twin Startup Willow Lays off 22% of its Workforce Following Recalibration of Strategy
January 2nd, 20233 Things We Learned About Smart Building SPACs in 2022
2021 was the “Year of the #SmartBuilding SPAC” when 9 companies completed a business combination. So what does that make 2022? We have analysed 17 companies, that fit our definition of a PropTech business, to determine what their financial performance looked like in 2022 and what we might expect to happen in 2023 and beyond. […]
2 New Nordic Nasdaq Listings Signal Growth in PropTech Market
Two Swedish proptech companies have recently listed on the Nasdaq Nordic First North Growth Market. The exchange represents a strong growth opportunity for smart building companies to step up to the world stage. On December 1st 2022, Stockholm-based smart workplace solution provider Flowscape, started trading on the Nasdaq Nordic stock exchange under the short name […]
How 5G will Change Video Surveillance & How it Won’t!
Few technologies have been hyped as much as 5G. Even before the rollout of 4G, the hype began to build around its successor and projecting the transformative change that 5G would bring to almost every industry. In the physical security sector, 5G is being hailed as a game-changer for video surveillance and other security applications. […]
#Podcast 16: We Need to Talk About Cyber Security Insurance!
In our Podcast series “Sh*t You Wish Your Building Did!”, Memoori explores the intersection between technology and commercial real estate through interesting conversations. We need to talk about Cyber Security for Commercial Buildings! Why? Because a growing number of insurers are excluding cyber events from their policies and many building owners could be self-insuring but don’t […]
Mapping the Strategic Direction of Allegion in the Smart Building & PropTech Space
Spun off from Ingersoll Rand in 2013, Allegion (NYSE: ALLE) has become an established player in the physical security industry for commercial and residential building markets around the world. In this research note, we map the key acquisitions, partnerships, and investments made by Allegion in the past six years to reveal the firm’s strategic priorities […]
Daikin Collaborates with Startups in the Smart Buildings Space
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Daikin Industries Ltd, is the global No. 1 air conditioning manufacturer, with over 88,000 employees, 100 production sites, and more than $27 billion (3.1 trillion Japanese yen) in sales across the 170 countries in which it operates. Through joint development with partner companies that include customers and startups, the company is […]
Recording: What Building Owners Need to Know About Cyber Security Insurance!
Here is the Video Recording from our 7th Free Webinar of the 2022 Smart Buildings Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars & Podcasts on YouTube! Memoori was joined by Tina Jolliffe from Consort Insurance to discuss exactly what commercial building owners & operators need to know to make sure they properly mitigate the risk posed […]
US-China Trade War Continues To Polarize the Physical Security Market
The Physical Security industry has found itself on the frontline of the US-China trade ‘war’ and its involvement could have significant implications for its future and the future of the wider smart buildings and cities technology markets. “In recent years US-China geopolitical tensions within the physical security industry have escalated,” reports our latest security research. […]