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Ten years of “proptech”, but what is “built world tech”..?
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by | Dec 10, 2023

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Ten years of “proptech”, but what is “built world tech”..?
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by | Dec 10, 2023

If you ask ten proptech venture capitalists (VCs) where the portmanteau “proptech” came from, you’ll get ten claimants. The trusty ol’ Wayback Machine from Internet Archive shows “PropTech” on the homepage of VCs as far back as October 2014, a time when terms like “CRETech” and “RETech” were also in circulation.


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About Luke Graham

About Luke Graham

Luke Graham heads the research department at Pi Labs, Europe’s most active venture capital investor specialising in technology disrupting the built environment. Luke was a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Future of Real Estate Initiative from 2020 to 2022, and is now an Associate Fellow at the university’s Saïd Business School. His research interests integrate innovation, social change and real estate economics.

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