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PropTech is the slowest fund-quadrant adjacent we track — avoid the indie path.
Scope: Real estate transaction software, property management, construction tech, IoT for buildings, mortgage and title, commercial real estate analytics.
Cost-to-build
54/100
Indie cost-to-build is moderate; the dominant cost line is relationship-building and customer-development inside an industry that does not respond to cold outreach.
Deal-velocity
36/100
Engineering acceleration in proptech is the least correlated with revenue across all sectors except supply chain — 18–24 week lag is common.
Live signal: 1 proptech startups currently tracked for Q2 2026. See the roster →
Where PropTech lands
Build
Build it yourself
Fund
Write the cheque
Avoid
Reroute the energy
Wait
Wait or partner
High cost-to-build, low deal-velocity. Capital-trap territory — stand down, partner with an incumbent, or stage cheques against milestones instead of announcements.
The honest version
PropTech procurement is dominated by relationships, not features. The cost-to-build is moderate but the velocity is below the cross-site median because the buyers are deeply network-driven and engineering acceleration rarely converts inside a 14-week window. Indie founders should reroute; investors should write cheques only to founders with operating real-estate experience.
If you are building
Fits when: You have operating experience inside real estate, construction, or property management and a network you can sell into without cold outreach.
If you are funding
Fits when: You have a proptech thesis with patient capital and you can underwrite relationship-led GTM.
Mortgage and title software adjacent to fintech rails closes faster than the rest of the sector. Treat them as fintech-shaped with a proptech tag.
Because the procurement is relationship-led and the buyers reward incumbents. Engineering signals show up early but the deal calendar is dominated by network, not feature differentiation.
Healthcare is the patient capital quadrant — and most founders forget the patient.
Supply chain is the slowest-moving sector we track — bet on capital, not on velocity.
Robotics is the most capital-intensive sector — wait quadrant for almost everyone.
AgTech is hardware-heavy, slow, and only fundable inside a dedicated thesis.
Space tech is the only sector where the cheque needs nine zeros — wait quadrant for everyone else.
Every sector we track lives somewhere on the 2×2 — the index page groups all 20 verdicts in one place.
When the verdict isn’t enough
The free Monday email tells you which way the wind is blowing. If proptechis the call you’re weighing this quarter, two faster moves: pull the live teardown on this one sector, or watch every sector week over week so you see the team pulling ahead before it shows up in someone’s deck.
Pressure-test one sector
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One sector, one teardown, one sitting. The same read your analyst would spend an afternoon on — who’s shipping like they’re about to raise, and who just looks busy. Cheaper than the coffee you’d buy to ask around.
Test one sector — €7 →Watch it move every week
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The standing dashboard across every sector we track — so the team that quietly doubled overnight lands in front of you, not in front of the partner who beat you to the term sheet. The deck lags the work by 21 to 47 days; this is where you spend that head start.
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