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03/27/2026

Three AI companies with a combined paper valuation approaching $3 trillion are preparing to go public. And this valuation is just between OpenAI +Anthropic
+Spacex. There are many more companies in IPO talks and a lot of them in San Francisco Bay Area, but we also have them in NYC, Austin, Seattle and beyond. Their employees are already worth millions — on paper. The mortgage system can’t apply the same strategy as for the usual income verification process.

These newly minted millionaires and billionaires cohort will buy properties too, but this time their assets will be more nationally and globally diversified.

Here is how the financing actually works for pre or early stages IPO investors and employees.

Even if you don’t operate in the US market, it might help how the lending mechanism works in mature, but also high risk taking financial market and how real assets are backed by financial instruments before one has access to liquidity.

Follow me on Substack, I will be posting more on capital, real assets, global trends, economic development, proptech and of course, real estate across different markets. 👇🏻

Capital Markets & Real Assets - Global Invest Forum · March 2026

03/26/2026

San Francisco rent just hit a record night: $3,970/ month for 1 - bedroom. How is your market ?

01/19/2026

Not sure about you, but we only feed our dog real food, with healthy ingredients. So we just discovered such natural, clean ingredients for your fur baby from . Our fussy Shih -tzu, Frannie is enjoying her chicken with tons of healthy veggie food, curtesy to Cameron, the owner of Fur Paws Dog Food who generously offered us his premium dog food to try. Thank you, Cameron! There are more options : beef, turkey, chicken with chicken liver. Give it a try!

12/01/2025

We’re on the move—literally and digitally

From San Francisco to Chennai, Singapore, Jakarta and Kampala, the PropPulse team ( The Pulsers) is getting ready for Area Uganda Conference and Expo in Kampala, December 4-5.

We’re excited to share how verified listings, professionals and smart PPP implementations can strengthen Uganda’s real estate market. A trusted marketplace starts with listening, learning, and building together.

We will demo, take the Ugadan real estate community pulse, listen and improve.

We don’t promise perfection this time
around , but we promise to grow together.

My dear Pulsers, see you soon! 🤗

-U

11/20/2025

I am excited to join the AREA Uganda Annual Conference in Kampala, Uganda, December 4–5, where Pulse Uganda and Prop-Pulse are proud to partner with AREA in strengthening trust and professionalism across Uganda’s real estate sector.

Our focus in the following year is clear:
verified listings, public education, and building a transparent, trusted real estate ecosystem for everyone.

Together with AREA Uganda, we aim to:
• Promote verified listings through proper title-number submission
• Encourage the public to work with AREA-U–vetted agents and valuers
• Build a responsible digital Property Marketplace ( PMP) that gradually includes licensed agents, certified valuers, developers, lenders, government partners, and other real estate professionals
• Support safer, smarter property transactions for buyers, sellers, and investors
• Strengthen confidence in the market through collaboration and shared standards
• Harvest reliable real estate data.

I look forward to meaningful conversations, new partnerships, and working together to shape the future of Uganda’s real estate industry.

PropPulse — Verified Listings. Safe Ownership.
Data Pulse — Intelligent Real Estate Infrastructure for a Digital Africa

07/22/2025

Stopped by the “Hello, Self‑Writing Internet” event at Studios in San Francisco where Caffeine.ai was officially launched on last Tuesday, July 15 in SF — and wow, what a buzz. The energy was electric, and the demos around text‑to‑code and voice-to-code were genuinely exciting. I only got to try it for a few minutes, but even as a non-technical founder, I was impressed by how effortlessly it translated my idea into actual code and began shaping a real product.

I wish I could’ve stayed for the whole hackathon and even participate — it was open to both technical and non-technical participants and founders — but I’m glad I got a taste of what’s possible. Big congrats to all the winners — and here’s a shot I grabbed with the second place winner, Bess Ho.

I have high hopes that will be a game changer for emerging markets founders and problem solvers who have limited resources and capital to translate their vision into a working solutions protocols.

Truly enjoyed the thoughtful conversations, support and feedback in a very community - oriented atmosphere. A pleasure meeting you, Scott Mauvais, Bruno Calabretta and other organizers and participants whom I had the pleasure to have enlightening conversations.

02/11/2025

A true pleasure and privilege to teach CIPS Europe last Tuesday to over 35 Realtors from Austin Board of REALTORS® and The Canadian Real Estate Association | L’Association canadienne de l’immobilier , all accomplished global real estate entrepreneurs, who embarked on a global knowledge quest to complete 40 hours of education that will eventually confer them the Cerified International Property Specialist ( CIPS) designation. Many thanks to the organizing team, especially to Christine Wren, Free and Price. Also, special thanks to my global real estate markets experts : my fellow CIPS instructor, Samira Badawi Easton who covered Italian, Dutch and Belgium markets, Jillian Rose , CEO of Global Real Estate in Austin, specialized in France and Italy markets and Ilda Zaloshnja , the founder of and VP of NAREA - National Albanian Real Estate Association, who covered one of the hottest emerging real estate markets- Albania.

02/08/2025

On a positive side, tech startups are leading the commercial real estate leases in San Francisco. AI startups leases make up for 9% of the total available commercial space in the city, bringing the commercial real estate sector back to life .

01/30/2025

There have been a few days since the launching of a China based company released a competitive and cost efficient AI product, enough to throw the US markets and tech companies stocks into frenzy.

Here is a good cheat sheet from .

12/27/2024

When you wish you built something like this, but someone else already did it much better that you thought it could be possible , the next best thing you can do it’s to make a contribution to that vision. I am very thrilled to be part of the PropTechBuzz journey, a proptech platform that I would have loved to build myself if I could. Ravi Kumar Sapata, thank you having this vision and for your trust in me. Here is to reaching new depths and new horizons.

Rafat CHABAANE Sameer Sortur Setty Silicon Valley Proptech Association

11/18/2024

What to do on a Sunday afternoon in San Francisco but have deep and animated conversations over matcha lattes, while planing exciting collaborations between African and Sillicon Valley innovation, education, governance and business ecosystems.

Thank you for sharing your perspective and passion for democratizing , Jonas Kgomo and Joanna Wiaterek from Equiano Institute in South Africa.

Martin Kirkwood Equiano Institute UNDP Silicon Valley Proptech Association