Venture capital funding of U.S. proptech companies dropped by 69 percent in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a year earlier. But the drop may prove to be a hiccup, rather than a staying trend. “I think it’s more reflective of a temporary, or what we anticipate to be a temporary, drop in investment activity overall in the venture world,” says Zak Schwarzman, partner at MetaProp, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on the real estate technology industry. FULL ARTICLE |