On May 14, 2019, our friends at Lab Ventures Miami are hosting Future of Real Estate Tech Summit Miami
This event brings together investors, innovative startups and leading corporations in the construction and real estate industry. The audience will be highly curated creating powerful networking opportunities with C-level executives from Developers, Owners, Associations, Construction Companies, Multifamily Offices, Architects, Growth Stage Startups, Strategics, Commercial Developers and more. Startups can apply to pitch at the event.

Remix is currently being used by over 4,000 planners in over 300 cities to enable planners to visualize tradeoffs when making urban planning decisions. The startup is attempting to streamline decision-making for city planners, allowing planners to drag and drop changes like re-route bus routes or additional bike lanes. Planners then see in real time how that change will affect other streets and the flow of transportation as a whole. For cities, better planning results in shorter commute times, safer streets, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Dreamit HealthTech alum MedStack recently closed a $2.4 million seed round. The company, whose product helps healthcare technology vendors meet the security and privacy requirements of enterprise customers, plans to use the new funding to expand its team and continue growing its product.

Dreamit HealthTech alum ImageMoverMD announced today it had closed a $4 million round of funding led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from HealthX Ventures and Cultivation Capital. The company plans to use the funding to expand its medical image management product to new health systems.

Global PR powerhouse Cision announced today that it is acquiring Dreamit alum TrendKite in a deal valuing the startup at $225 million. Learn more about TrendKite and the industry trends behind the acquisition.

Learn how Intermountain Healthcare’s adoption of open standards like FHIR has allowed it to work with innovative startups like Dreamit HealthTech alum Tissue Analytics.

Our friends at Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), in partnership with the City of New York, are looking for cybersecurity startups to compete in the Cybersecurity Moonshot Challenge, a competition to win a $1 million investment from Jerusalem Venture Partners and the chance to join Hub.NYC.

Earlier this week, the team at Strategic Cyber Ventures released a report on the state of the cybersecurity venture market. Venture investors poured $5.3 billion into cybersecurity startups in 2018. This is a 20% increase from 2017, which saw about $4.4 billion in venture capital investment in the cybersecurity space.

What we’re reading in urban tech, real estate, and construction tech news this week.

On this special edition of Marketing Matters, Americus is joined by Eran Ofir, CEO and Cofounder, and Dr. Charles Herman, Chief Medical Officer of Somatix. Somatix has created cutting edge technology for the health care industry in the form of a real-time gesture detection platform that utilizes sensors built into a range of wearables, as well as predictive analytics and machine learning to passively monitor, remotely track, analyze, and deliver insights and help act on massive volumes of detected gesture data. 

Dreamit is designed to help pre-Series A startups with a market-ready product and traction acquire new enterprise customers and raise their next institutional round of funding. Learn more about the day-to-day structure of the program and how it allows founders to scale their companies in a flexible way.

Raising money for your cybersecurity or physical security startup? We compiled a list of 101 venture capital firms that focus on investing in security startups to help make the process of closing your next round as easy as possible.

Read our latest UrbanTech newsletter for industry news, funding announcements, real estate and construction trends, events, and more.

Dreamit SecureTech and SOSA are teaming up to host a night of networking, learning, and startup demos with founders and venture investors from the New York cybersecurity community. We’re looking for 10 pre-”Series A” startups to pitch their products to investors at the event.

According to RE:tech, venture investors deployed over $3.2 billion into real estate tech startups in November. The majority of this capital went to just three companies. WeWork raised $3 billion, while Nested and PropertyFinder raised just over $120 million each. All other earlier stage real estate tech startups split the remaining $34 million of total funding in November.

Dreamit designed Customer Sprints to help startups overcome challenges and accelerate customer acquisition. Over 50 “startup-ready” corporates that are eager to purchase and pilot early-stage technologies from pre-Series A founders make up Dreamit’s Customer Network.

Dreamit alum MPOWER Financing, a fintech company providing educational loans to high-potential international and DACA students, has completed its largest funding round to-date with $110 million in new financing for students enrolling in major US universities.

Cherre, a real estate data platform that completed Dreamit UrbanTech in 2018, announced a $9 million seed funding round led by Navitas Capital. Cherre provides large enterprises, insurance companies, banks and investors with a platform to collect, augment, and resolve property data in real-time from thousands of public, private, and internal sources, allowing them to evaluate investment and underwriting opportunities more accurately and efficiently than ever before.

Dreamit startup Lia has been named one of TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2018.

Andrew Ackerman sits down for a brief interview with Atlanta-based 3Ci CONNECT at Built Tech Week to discuss the Dreamit UrbanTech program.