Roelof is Founder & CEO of CogNovum, a new tech VC platform. Prior, Roelof was Head of Europe on the Real Estate Technology Investment team at Fifth Wall, where he focused on technology and innovations within the multifamily, office, and hospitality real estate asset classes. Roelof has led Fifth Wall’s investments in Lyric, Eden, Appear Here, Hippo, Industrious, Loggi, Recharge, Lime, and Aurora Solar. Previously, Roelof worked at Norwest Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater Associates. Roelof is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Emory University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Alec joined RET Ventures in 2017 from the Leveraged Finance group at BofA Merrill Lynch in New York, where he worked on debt capital financings for corporate issuers and private equity funds. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Originally from San Francisco, Alec is a traveler at heart and spends his time out of the office outdoors: hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and skydiving.

Alexander has 15 years of investment experience in the real estate sector and has made more than 30 investments in the Prop- and FinTech space in recent years. Prior to that, Alexander founded, scaled and sold a health care business in Asia and worked as an investment manager in banking.

Arne is a real estate expert with over 10 years of expertise and a passion for innovation and disruption. Within AMAVI, Arne focuses on sourcing new investment opportunities and the general management of the investment portfolio. With his in-depth expertise of the real estate industry, Arne offers a unique insight into the real pain points of the industry and a sound base for assessing and selecting the innovations that shape the real estate industry of tomorrow. Being involved in the set-up of Belgium based property developer ION, he lifted the company to a top 3 property developer in Belgium and Luxemburg in just 8 years time (+250 mio EUR in turnover, +100 FTEs, 2 bio EUR in development pipeline).

Arnie focusses on RHV's investment strategy and portfolio growth. He previously built the corporate venture arm of FTSE listed Capital & Counties and was a senior executive at Bloomsbury AI ($30m+ exit to Facebook), The Collective (>$400m in debt & equity financing) & Rocket Internet's HelloFresh ($2.5bn IPO). He is frequently featured in the media: Wired's 100 Most Influential People in Technology and was Forbes 30Under30 in 2016. He is an active angel investor in European startups and has advised the European Commission's Startup Europe initiative. He is a graduate of Imperial College London and continues to have an active interest in the intersection of deep science, technology and human behaviour.

Clelia is an innovator, operator and investor working in the real estate industry. Prior to her role at Bain Capital Ventures, Clelia co-founded MetaProp, a $40 million seed stage venture fund focused exclusively on real estate technology and one of the first sector specific funds focused on PropTech. In addition to investing in real estate technology, Clelia currently serves as president of Warburg Realty, acting as key advisor to her father, CEO Frederick Warburg Peters, in managing and growing New York’s only remaining independent mid-size real estate brokerage. She is the elected co-chair of the Real Estate Board of New York’s RLS Board of Directors (the New York MLS system equivalent), and sits on the Board of REBNY’s Tech Committee.

Daniel Kraft serves as Partner and Head of Proptech at Stronghold Invest AB, a Swedish investment firm specializing in real estate and technology ventures. Based in Sweden, Kraft leads the company's property technology initiatives, focusing on identifying and developing innovative solutions that transform the real estate sector. With expertise in both investment strategy and emerging proptech trends, he plays a crucial role in bridging traditional real estate practices with cutting-edge technology solutions. At Stronghold, Kraft oversees strategic investments in startups and established companies that are reshaping how properties are developed, managed, and transacted. His leadership in the proptech space positions him at the forefront of Sweden's evolving real estate technology landscape.

After 12 years as an operator (Bonobos, TellApart, Floored, CBRE), I am now a full-time investor with Zigg, a new venture capital fund that I founded. We invest in emerging technology companies in the real estate and construction industries.

Gregory is the Founder and Managing Partner of noa, Europe's largest build world venture capital firm. He oversees the vision and strategy of the firm and manages partnerships with noa's portfolio companies and LPs. Gregory is a long-standing, prominent voice in tech and climate, particularly around decarbonisation and the opportunity in the energy transition of the most polluting industry globally: real estate. Having worked and invested heavily in the real estate sector for more than a decade, Gregory founded noa (formerly known as A/O), on the back of a deep understanding of the industry's shortcomings, ascertained from the specialist real estate investment and advisory firm he founded and developed, AMD Capital. Previously, Gregory worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Citigroup. He holds an MSc in Business & Finance from HEC Lausanne and has attended the London School of Economics and Harvard Business School's executive education program.

Currently responsible for fund operations, managing deal flow, transactions and supporting portfolio companies. Hannah brings 13+ years of real estate advisory, transactional, start-up and operational experience. She is focused on supporting PropTech companies in Europe and frequently presents on panels to discuss Technology and RE. She is a Chartered Surveyor by trade and specialised in commercial valuations at Savills, before joining PwC, where she advised on debt portfolio transactions and RE corporate finance. In 2017, she moved into PropTech and joined a B2B2C resi platform, working with operations & product, before joining a tenant engagement platform. There, she created the business development team, before moving into VC.

Jamie is a Sustainability Professional and Managing Partner with Greensoil Proptech Ventures based in Toronto, Canada. He started working as a green building practitioner in 2003 with Tridel, one of Canada's leading high-rise residential developers, and as a partner with Windmill Developments, a boutique triple-bottom-line oriented real estate developer. From 2009-2015 he founded and led Tower Labs, which focused on facilitating pilot and demonstration projects of early stage green building technologies addressing the real estate industry. At the same time, he led 350 Capital, a micro-VC fund investing in companies following successful pilot and demonstration projects with Tridel and other real estate innovation leaders.

Jonathan is a global citizen, having held senior executive and board roles across Asia and Europe in real estate, venture capital, technology and sporting related ventures. In 2015 Jonathan jointly founded the Taronga Group with a focus on real estate, venture capital, technology and fund management. Taronga Ventures was launched to build the bridge between institutional and corporate owners of real estate and the emerging growth companies that are now targeting the real estate sector. In 2018 Real Tech Ventures – Asia’s first VC Fund focused on investing into Real Estate technology was launched and the fund has commenced investing. Jonathan worked before for Mirvac, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Savills.

I am one of the few placement agents who started as an institutional LP and GP. I have invested US$5 billion (equity) globally in real estate, first at the General Motors Pension Fund, and then as the founder of the real estate fund of funds businesses at both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Candlewood Investors raises equity for real estate entrepreneurs who have built great businesses mostly with high net worth capital and now deserve to grow their great business with institutional capital but have no idea how to enter the institutional tent. I also advise real estate technology companies on product-market fit, and help them find customers, investors, board members, and joint venture partners.

Louis Schotsky is a Managing Partner at Navitas Capital. Prior to joining Navitas Louis spent over a decade at Equity Residential in operations and investments and time as a technology and management consultant at Andersen Consulting and The Boston Consulting Group respectively. Louis holds a degree in Philosophy and Economics from Trinity College and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

As founder of the Real Estate & Construction Tech vertical at Plug and Play, MJ works with top Real Estate & Construction corporations to define their innovation strategy, hone in on technology interests, and connect them with industry leading startups and scale ups. Plug and Play is a global innovation platform. We connect startups to corporations, and invest in over 200 startups every year. Working with the Real Estate Tech team, we are inspiring innovation in today's Real Estate corporations and connecting them with tomorrow's startups.

Micah came to URBAN-X from NYSERDA, where he served as the Director of NY Prize and Strategic Advisor for Innovation, and spent 5 years as Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering where he launched NYC’s first sponsored tech incubator. Micah has direct experience with utilities, government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions and early stage companies. He is interested in startups that embrace change as well as regulators and innovative large companies working on solutions for climate and energy issues.

In her role as Principal at OMERS Ventures, Michelle Killoran is responsible for researching and executing on investment opportunities in real estate and health technology. Prior to joining OMERS Ventures, she was a Senior Associate in Financial Advisory at Deloitte. As a part of the Valuations group, she provided valuation services to both public and private companies related to mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, tax, and litigation. Michelle is a Chartered Accountant (CA), Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Business Valuator (CBV). She has a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University. In 2020, Michelle was named one of Venture Capital Journal’s "40 Rising Stars under 40" in the global venture community.

Minh Q. Tran is an investor and entrepreneur with over 20 years of investing experience. Currently, he is the Founder of Insurtech Capital and Co-Founder of Proptech Capital. As an investor, he brings his unique international expertise and passion for entrepreneurship at the service of funding great startups. Minh lived in Asia, New York, Finland and Paris, and worked for several prestigious VC funds (Bertelsmann Ventures, Nokia Ventures, Truffle Capital) where he led successful investments in tech, media and mobile ventures worldwide. He now sits on the board of several tech companies and focuses on InsurTech mainly. Minh is an MBA graduate from INSEAD.

Nate is a Vice President at Camber Creek where he advances the firm's fundraising, supports portfolio companies, and manages deal flow, diligence, and transactions. He also leads Camber Creek's public relations and thought leadership. Nate comes from a fourth-generation real estate family. Prior to joining Camber Creek, he served as a Special Assistant to the President at the National Economic Council in the Obama White House, where he led work in areas like urban development and emerging technology. Nate is also a successful social entrepreneur and former Forbes 30 under 30, Baltimore Business Journal 40 under 40 and Aspen Ideas Fellow. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fast Company, among other media outlets.

Nikolas Samios is the Managing Partner of PropTech1 Ventures, the independent venture capital platform for PropTech & ConstructionTech in Europe, bringing together leading real estate companies and entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs from the digital sector, and venture capital experts. In this role as well as his previous entrepreneurial activities, e.g. as Managing Partner of the VC family office COOPERATIVA and as Managing Director of Brandenburg Ventures, the VC vehicle of MP3 inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg, he has participated in more than 100 transactions on both sides of the table. He is the PropTech Representative for the ZIA German Property Federation, Head of the "ESG" working group of the German Startups Association.

Paul Ferreira serves as Managing Partner at Blue Hawk Investments, where he leads strategic investment initiatives and portfolio management. With extensive experience in private equity and venture capital, he specializes in identifying high-growth opportunities across diverse sectors. Ferreira brings a proven track record of successful deal execution and value creation, guiding companies through critical growth phases. His expertise spans financial restructuring, market expansion strategies, and operational optimization. At Blue Hawk Investments, he oversees the firm's investment strategy while maintaining active involvement in portfolio company development and strategic planning.

Roelof is Founder & CEO of CogNovum, a new tech VC platform. Prior, Roelof was Head of Europe on the Real Estate Technology Investment team at Fifth Wall, where he focused on technology and innovations within the multifamily, office, and hospitality real estate asset classes. Roelof has led Fifth Wall’s investments in Lyric, Eden, Appear Here, Hippo, Industrious, Loggi, Recharge, Lime, and Aurora Solar. Previously, Roelof worked at Norwest Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater Associates. Roelof is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Emory University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Sam Delisi is an Operating Partner with Moderne. He was most recently the Global Head of Property Management Services for WeWork. He was recruited to stand up a third-party property management business. Sam has a 40 year career in property management leadership and commercial brokerage roles with Newmark Knight Frank, CBRE, Insignia ESG and U.S Equities Realty. Highlights of Sam's career including developing and leading CBRE's Premier Property Platform focused on delivering experiential property management services to enhance the workplace for tenants and their employees. In that role Sam was responsible for thought leadership and tip of the spear sales. In two years the team acquired more than 70 million square feet of new management.

Taylor Wescoatt is a Managing Director and General Partner at Concrete VC, a European venture capital firm focused on PropTech. He plays a key role in investing in and exploring how technology is transforming the real estate and construction sectors. With a background in product management, including helping over 100 startups understand product thinking at Seedcamp, Wescoatt brings significant expertise in product strategy and innovation to his current role. His work at Concrete VC involves identifying market trends and driving investments in the built environment.

Ted Orf is an investor at the venture capital and growth equity firm Revolt Ventures (RV). RV invests in real estate operating and technology companies in partnership with Meyer Bergman, a real estate investment manager with €5bn AUM. Prior to Revolt, Ted worked with Value Retail, assisting in the launch of the Chinese business and VR Retail Advisors – the latter in conjunction with Meyer Bergman to create a €1.5bn outlet portfolio in continental Europe. He then assisted in the launch of Anyon – a real estate technology investor and incubator based in Berlin. Ted received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics at Brown University and his M.B.A. at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Vinay is a member of GIC's tech investment group, a global team with a presence in Silicon Valley, China and India. GIC's tech investment group invests in private and public companies, seeking to form long-term relationships with category creating technology companies. Vinay’s coverage includes fintech and proptech, investing in companies such as Affirm, Checkout.com, Opendoor and Divvy Homes. Prior to joining GIC’s tech investment group, Vinay was a part of GIC’s real estate team where he covered investment opportunities across North America spanning all real estate asset classes. Vinay received a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in real estate and finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Enthusiastic and experienced new business leader with a strong passion for technology, innovation and transformation. Interested in helping both established and startup companies grow, especially in new and emerging opportunities.

Wiktor leads Realty’s investment activities in both RE and PropTech. He oversees JVs partnerships across Europe. Recent transactions include the acquisition of a residential scheme in London, a PBSA asset in Cracow, and several distressed debt acquisitions in the UK. In Proptech, his recent investments include a stake in PiLabs, Europe’s leading Proptech VC fund, as well as direct investments in VenueX, a directories business partnered with Apple and Google, and Houst, a third party management platform. Prior to Realty, Wiktor worked at a captive asset manager for Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunity funds as well as for Blackstone’s retail investment platform. Graduated from IE Business School in Madrid and USC MSoB in LA.