5. PropTech is Here...and We're Just Getting Started ft. Safi Aziz

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Safi Aziz writes The Physicality, a light-hearted exploration of the changes to how we live and play. He also is the CEO of Hyperbeam that helps early-stage founders find the fundraising and sales story that sticks. Previously, he was a Director at MetaProp, a PropTech venture capital fund with 100+ portfolio companies, and was on the Leadership Board for the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation.

Given his direct and broad exposure to the PropTech space, we dive into the ideas and companies shaping the future of real estate, the challenges early-stage PropTech companies have faced, and the opportunities that lie ahead.

Great insights

• Safi suggested we are now seeing a new generation of PropTech companies, such as:
  • Kindred: Allowing members to swap homes in cool markets for free and also earn credits that can be used toward future stays for housing others.
  • TrueHold: Offering elderly owners to sale-leaseback their homes in exchange for not only maintenance and risk assumption but also senior care services.
  • BonusHomes: Enabling owners of homes seeking to move but locked in at a low rate to sell yet retain some equity in the original home
  • Bonside: Helps retailers grow with a repeatable revenue agreement

Great nuggets

• "PropTech has been defined both narrowly and broadly. The way I like to explain it most often is, it's everything from insurance tech, all the way to FinTech as it relates to real estate. So that encompasses construction tech...new financing products...robotics...3D printing. It is very broad in terms of sort of what you can bucket into property technology...But anything that's trying to improve the built environment, I think can be, um, can be lumped in and and assessed as PropTech."

How to get in touch with Safi:

• Twitter: @s_afiaziz
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safiaziz/
• Blog: thephysicality.substack.com

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