Market Disruption
Venture Capital & Private Equity Funding Drives Growth in Occupancy Analytics
June 21st, 2023White Paper: How Can Smart Building Technology Become Mainstream?
November 16th, 2022
Commercial Real Estate & the Sharing Economy
The largest hotel company in the world doesn’t own a single bed. The largest taxi company in the world does not own a fleet of vehicles. And, the largest content provider in the world does not make content. AirBnB, Uber, and YouTube have all become the leaders in their industry by creating platforms for a […]

Podcast #9: Are we Crossing the PropTech Chasm?
In this new Podcast series, Memoori explores the intersection between technology and commercial real estate through interesting conversations. Are we Crossing the PropTech Chasm? In episode #9 we talked to Geoffrey Moore, best selling author and business strategist known for his working including ‘Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers‘. We […]

How Valuable is the Channel in Smart Building Technology?
In the midst of increased M&A activity in the smart building space, it is natural to consider the implications to building owners, operators and other competing solution providers. Do these acquisitions mean that smart building technology is maturing and has “arrived”. Or, were these acquisitions made opportunistically? It’s hard to know, and the answers may […]

Partnerships & Investments in Startups Gain Momentum as Smart Building Players Boost Innovation
Smart building players are strengthening their open innovation capabilities through investments and partnerships with startups and the incubators and accelerators that support their development. Corporates are recognizing the need to increase their agility and speed in developing smart connected products and services by leveraging software, analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to […]

Venture Capital & Private Equity Drives Smart Building Startups Forward
“The reason [why great companies sometimes fail] is that good management itself was the root cause. Managers played the game the way it’s supposed to be played. The very decision-making and resource allocation processes that are key to the success of established companies are the very processes that reject disruptive technologies.” So says one of […]

The Continued Disruption Caused by the Internet of Things Signifies its Progress
The “political dimension” of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities is now becoming increasingly apparent as city authorities and citizens are forced to wake up to the social changes that connected technology brings. That’s according to Léan Doody, associate director at consulting engineering firm Arup, speaking at the Internet of Things Business Summit […]

Innovation in Security will be Driven by Sensor Ubiquity, Smarter Devices & Cloud Technology
Continuing our series of articles on Innovation we talked to Steve Russell, CEO of Prism Skylabs, about how they intend to disrupt the Security Market in 2013 and what he thinks will be the major innovations over the next 5 years. Q. Where will the major innovations in the security industry come from in the […]