The morning I attended the release of Venturon's 2024 Sustainable Proptech Report. What's great is that it includes a list of all the (known) companies that are active in this space in Canada. It also summarizes venture funding by region. Interesting to see Alberta punching above its weight and coming in second behind Ontario. It has roughly half the population of Quebec.

As part of the event, the following companies also gave short presentations:

• Panergy -- they make a prefabricated insulated wall system

• Darabase -- they are creating an advertising ecosystem around augmented reality; one that will allow building owners to monetize in a new digital world

• Axe Buildings -- they make simple, prefabricated homes; they are optimizing for speed and price, not quality

• QEA Tech -- they use drones with thermal cameras to tell you where your building envelope is leaking and wasting energy

I don't know anything about these companies other than what I heard this morning, but all are working on important problems. Darabase is perhaps the most future oriented in that it appears to rely on AR / spatial computing becoming a thing. I believe this will happen, and so I found it particularly interesting.

The 2024 report is available online, here.

The morning I attended the release of Venturon's 2024 Sustainable Proptech Report. What's great is that it includes a list of all the (known) companies that are active in this space in Canada. It also summarizes venture funding by region. Interesting to see Alberta punching above its weight and coming in second behind Ontario. It has roughly half the population of Quebec.

As part of the event, the following companies also gave short presentations:

• Panergy -- they make a prefabricated insulated wall system

• Darabase -- they are creating an advertising ecosystem around augmented reality; one that will allow building owners to monetize in a new digital world

• Axe Buildings -- they make simple, prefabricated homes; they are optimizing for speed and price, not quality

• QEA Tech -- they use drones with thermal cameras to tell you where your building envelope is leaking and wasting energy

I don't know anything about these companies other than what I heard this morning, but all are working on important problems. Darabase is perhaps the most future oriented in that it appears to rely on AR / spatial computing becoming a thing. I believe this will happen, and so I found it particularly interesting.

The 2024 report is available online, here.