Weekly Radar #368: That's A Wrap, Blueprint 2025, Proptech Index Up 4.04%, Zirconium Peer Circle Update
In this Weekly Radar, we cover:
- At Blueprint 2025, proptech startups and experts emphasized AI’s growing role in homebuilding and more alongside community events co-hosted by GEM, PTAG, and FIRE.
- We shifted our Zirconium Peer Circles offering to a paid facilitation model with Heather Harmon leading, bringing more structure and accountability to participants
- The GEM Proptech Index increased 4.04% from the previous week.
Geek Estate’s Proptech Getaway, an intimate (founders and C-suite) retreat for the brightest minds in proptech, is back for the 3rd year running…taking place in beautiful Central Oregon at Juniper Preserve April 28-30th, 2026. An exclusive gathering for GEM Diamond members. Are you coming?
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Transmission Recap:
This week, Drew Meyers ❇️highlights how Foyer is creating 401k-style real estate wealth building opportunities with goal-setting tools, financial education, and a rewards program❇️. Most recently, Drew Meyers explained the reality that humans' attention is a finite resource, which breaks the AI personalized outreach pitch.
BIZ INTEL
PROPTECH INDEX WEEKLY
By: Community Relations
Consisting of 26 stocks, the GEM Proptech Index had a combined market cap of $283.154B, an increase of 4.04% from the previous week.
Figure was added to the PropTech Index this week, bringing the total stock count to 26. The company completed its successful IPO on September 11, 2025, raising $787.5M by selling 31.5M shares at $25 each. Figure provides home equity lending and uses blockchain technology to tokenize and trade financial assets.
Excluding Figure's addition to the index, the 25 stocks already in before this week had a combined market cap of $273.297B, an increase of .42% from the previous week.
GEM DIAMOND MEMBER NEWS
- Kim Koraca joins MoxiWorks as Chief Marketing Officer. – Krista Hannahs
- Blueprint launched a new subscription research platform. – Brad Hargreaves & Vik Venkatraman
- BrightMLS and Ocusell launched joint venture. – Hayden Rieveschl & Ken Schneider
- FBS announced a strategic integration with Zillow to simplify the process of importing listing media into the MLS. – Steve Lake, Nobu Hata, and Errol Samuelson
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THAT'S A WRAP, BLUEPRINT 2025
By: Jessica Wright
Hundreds of GEMineers embarked upon a journey to Las Vegas for Proptech’s biggest conference, ❇️Blueprint❇️ , for collaboration, networking and, of course, cuisine, drinks, and fun. Attending my first GEM event(s) and Blueprint conference, I had the pleasure of meeting close to a hundred GEMineers,. The energy and spirit was infectious and I couldn't be more excited to❇️have stepped into GEM and proptech,❇️ thanks to Drew Meyers. Drew and I met fifteen years ago, while living in San Diego and working together at a Real Estate Training startup.
From ❇️ our 4th annual Korean BBQ dinner❇️ to 1-1 convos with GEM members, I felt welcomed and grateful that our community is full of kind, brilliant, curious and hardworking leaders. And hungry.
On Day Two, ❇️ we co-hosted a Happy Hour❇️ with Matt Knight from PTAG and Dave Garland from FIRE that brought in around 100 GEM and PTAG members, and FIRE supporters. But the week wasn't all about the parties. A variety of startups and proptech experts opined on topics ranging from homebuilding, rentals, land use, maintenance and transacting, with this year's buzzword - AI - appearing in most discussions. Oh, and the robots were awesome.
Many of you shared great ideas and opinions on how we can level up the GEM experience–a success, since that's a big reason I attended Blueprint. I look forward to being a part of GEM's growth and supporting all our members in their businesses any way we can. Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone
ZIRCONIUM PEER CIRCLE UPDATE
By: Drew Meyers
Based on feedback, we've moved ❇️the Zirconium peer circle❇️ over to a paid facilitation model ($1,000 per six months). There are a few reasons behind the shift:
- The maximum value of a Peer Circle for participants comes from everyone showing up for every meeting. With paid facilitation, it costs participants to not attend, meaning they are more likely to prioritize attending.
- Calls are more valuable for everyone with a facilitator curating the discussion, and keeping everyone on track.
- Scheduling and rescheduling of calls is better handled by a single person rather than a committee.
I couldn't be more thrilled to have Heather Harmon facilitating the Zirconium group, serving the following participants:
- Sean Hsieh – Concreit
- Tim Quirk – Final Offer
- Vin Vomero - Foxy AI
- Adi Pavlovic - NewZip
- Steven McCord - Locate Alpha (by Spatial Laser)
- Jeremy Henley - The Qwik Fix
- Stefan St. Marie - Revnest
We have one spot available for Zirconium. Interested in being that final participant, or matched into another ❇️Peer Circle❇️ ? Please complete this application (must be a GEM Diamond member to join) to give us a sense of where you're at in your company/product building journey.