Benzinga | Apr 22, 2021 08:03AM EDT

Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I Says SmartRent To Go Public In $2.2M Merger With Co

Includes Oversubscribed $155 Million PIPE Anchored by Leading Real Estate Companies, SmartRent Customers, and Institutional Investors, Including Starwood Capital Group, Lennar, Invitation Homes, Koch Real Estate Investments, Baron Capital Group, D1 Capital Partners L.P., Long Pond Capital, LP, and Conversant Capital LLC



- SmartRent Expects to be EBITDA Positive by 2022; 80% of the Company's Revenue Projections for 2021-2022 are from Already Committed Units; Growing Base of Recurring Revenue with Zero Churn since Inception

- Fifth Wall, the World's Largest Proptech Investor Managing $2.5 Billion, Will Open Access to Unmatched Distribution Lanes through its 70 Strategic Real Estate LPs from 15 Countries

- SmartRent Provides Environmentally Sustainable Solutions by Reducing Energy Consumption and Preventing Catastrophic Water Damage for the Real Estate Industry

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartRent.com, Inc. ("SmartRent") has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I (NASDAQ:FWAA) ("FWAA"), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by an affiliate of Fifth Wall, the largest venture capital firm focused on the global real estate industry and proptech. Upon the closing of the transaction, the combined company will be publicly traded.

SmartRent: Bringing Accessibility and Efficiency to the Real Estate Industry

SmartRent is the category-leading smart home operating system for residential property owners and managers, homebuilders, home buyers, and residents. Founded in 2017, SmartRent is a proptech company that provides the real estate industry with deeply integrated, brand-agnostic hardware and software solutions.

SmartRent's IoT operating system enables property owners, operators, and developers to decrease the complexities of property management, lower operating costs, and increase revenue. Before SmartRent, the real estate industry lacked an integrated software management platform that could deliver a smart home experience for real estate operators. Using their breadth and depth of experience as real estate operators, SmartRent's founding team members pioneered an open-architecture, hardware-agnostic operating system for residential owners while also launching a fully employed national field services team to execute installations for both new construction and retrofitted properties, making SmartRent's product highly attractive to real estate owners across all property types, segments, and regions.

As a clear industry leader, SmartRent has more residential units installed and states served than all of its competitors combined. In addition, SmartRent intends to leverage Fifth Wall's investor base of international real estate owners as the company expands into Western Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, and more.