PropTech Future Presents...
PropTech Future will not be publishing an article this week, but we will resume our regular publishing cadence next Monday. We have an exciting schedule of articles in the works including an in-depth interview with Spencer Rascoff who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire and Pacaso.
PropTech Startup Pitch Competition
We are excited to announce the details for our first PropTech Startup Pitch Competition. The competition is free to enter and is open to all Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A PropTech Startups. To enter the competition, please complete this form. Voting will take place from August 30th - September 3rd, and the finals will be hosted live “virtually” on September 14th at 10:00am EST on Unissu’s PropTech Platform.
We have received 50 entries so far, and more are added every day. You can browse all of the Pitch Decks and learn about about these companies on our PropTech Future’s competition page: here
Please reserve your complimentary ticket to watch some of the best new PropTech startups compete in the finals here. The event is free to attend.
The Judges
We have lined up a world class judging panel made up of the following VCs and PropTech Executives:
Rohit Iragavarapu - Vice President - TCV
Tim Curran - CEO - Building Engines
Victoria Lebegue - Investor - Concrete Ventures
Travis Connors - Co-Founder - Building Ventures
Maciej Plichta - PropTech Solution - Colliers
Madison Gresser - Investor - Navitas Capital
Jim Pettit - Managing Director - Navitas Capital
6 Finalists will be invited to Pitch in front of the judging panel and an audience made up of VCs, Real Estate Executives, Customers, and Entrepreneurs. The finalists will be chosen the following way:
Top 3 companies based on votes received
Top 3 companies based on sponsor choices
(complete rules are posted here)
Every subscriber of PropTech Future will be given one vote. As a valued member of our subscriber base, you will be sent your voting form on August 30th. Please feel free to encourage your employees, customers, and network to subscribe at the following link: https://glennfelson.substack.com/welcome
Sponsors
We are proud to be sponsored by the following companies:
Branding company for early-stage startups Together (www.gotogether.agency) is one of the competition's prize sponsors. PropTech is one of their domain expertise, and Together’s co-founder Adam Chaloeicheep sold his previous PropTech startup Dropmodel to HouseCanary. The Together team has a wealth of knowledge and experience building a company in the PropTech space, and they have offered to grant the competition winner with a pitch deck package that will help secure your next funding round.
Apollo is the unified engagement acceleration platform that gives reps the ability to dramatically increase their number of quality conversations and opportunities. Reps are empowered to do more than just conduct outreach, they learn who to target, how to reach out, and what to say at speed and scale. We help drive growth and success by providing the means for teams to discover and utilize their organization’s unique best practices. By working in a unified platform, reps and managers alike save hours of time each day, strategy changes are instantly scaled across the whole team, and managers can finally dig into data at each step of their pipeline to continually find new ways to improve. Teams get access to our database of 200+ million contacts with a built-in fully customizable Scoring Engine, full sales engagement stack, our native Account Playbook builder, and deep analytics suite. Apollo is the foundation for your entire end-to-end sales strategy. Join over 5,000+ customers including Lyft, Peloton, Colliers, GymPass, amongst others and watch your revenue grow!
FoundersCard is a community of more than 50,000 Members comprised of the world's most successful and influential entrepreneurs, innovators, and business professionals. Members receive access to exclusive benefits such as elite travel status, member-only pricing with major airlines and hotels and preferred pricing with leading lifestyle and business brands.
In collaboration with Cambridge Innovation Center, Proptech Foundation is launching Proptech HUB - the Commercial Real Estate expertise gravitation spot in CEE region. With their Community and Partners they are co-creating the biggest innovation campus in Europe with access to global CIC network and expert pool and tailored initiatives dedicated to innovators, startups and solution designers. There also will be over 700m2 Proptech specialized flex office space for dedicated teams of companies who want to be the first to know and do in terms of the digital transformation of the industry. Proptech HUB will be an incredible source of digital talent that can not be overlooked.
Prizes
Prizes will continue to get added, and you can keep up-to-date at the following link: https://proptechfuture.com/prizes/
PropTech Future has partnered with FoundersCard to provide an exclusive offer to All Subscribers of PropTech Future. Please send an email (prior to August 30th) to glenn@proptechfuture.com with “FoundersCard” in the subject line, and I will send you the link to redeem this complimentary offering.
Grand Prize
A dedicated Article in PropTech Future
Announcements throughout PropTech Future and Sponsor media Channels
A branded pitch deck Courtesy of “TOGETHER”
Branded Pitch Deck with a retail value of $6,500 which includes the following
include the following:Development and refinement of an elevated 10 slide pitch deck (including up to 3 tables), leveraging existing identity and/or pitch deck templates.
Review and refinement of provided pitch deck content (copy, imagery and iconography)
One kick-off call and 2 review rounds
12 month (3 seats) license to Apollo.io Professional Package courtesy of APOLLO (Value $3,600)
Unlimited Email Credits
Select 1,000 records at a time
A/B Testing
Unlimited Sequencing
Call Recording
50 Mobile number per month
And much more
Finalists
All 6 Finalists will receive promotion throughout the PropTech Future publication and associated social media channels.