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  • Zuma takes in fresh capital to convert your next apartment tenant lead into a contract

    TechCrunch

    Looking for a new apartment is either a leisurely thing to do or something that has to take place quite quickly. When you don’t reach anyone in the leasing office, you often move on to the next one on the list, even if it was one you would have considered. Zuma wants to ensure that any reach out for information is answered in minutes versus days. Today, the company, which adds artificial intelligence to sales engagement, exited its beta phase with $6.7 million in seed funding led by Andreessen …

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  • Starbucks Just Threw Out a Strategy It Spent 40 Years Perfecting and It’s Totally Brilliant

    Inc

    For 40 years, Starbucks has built a business on the premise that it could be the “third place” for its customers. While Starbucks didn’t invent the concept, Howard Shultz, the former CEO, was heavily influenced by the idea and set out to create an experience for customers that was about more than just a cup of coffee….

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  • Cohesion Announces $15 Million Series A Financing to Advance the Commercial Real Estate Transformation to Data-Driven, Smart Buildings Amid a New Era of Hybrid Work

    Businesswire

    Cohesion, a leader in smart building and digital twin SaaS technology, raised $15 million in its Series A financing round co-led by Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund and Hyde Park Angels (HPA), which closed Friday.

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  • REACH UK 2022 applications open for PropTech innovators

    REACH

    REACH leverages 100 worldwide bilateral partnerships in 85 countries and an unparalleled network of executives within real estate and adjacent industries. Second Century Ventures’ REACH program manages a portfolio of over 82 technology companies.

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  • Barcelona-based proptech startup Zazume bags €2.5 million to digitise rental management

    EU Startups

    Proptech firm, Zazume, launched just this year, has secured €2.5 million investment in a seed round led by London-based Nordstar. Picus Capital, Plug&Play and a group of business angels also participated.

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  • Changing up the recipe to make low-carbon cement

    Canary Media

    The chemical reaction at the heart of today’s cement-manufacturing process is a major reason why the production of this essential building material accounts for an estimated 7 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions from energy and industrial sources.

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  • Evolving Retail with Data, Part 2

    CREtech

    Anjee Solanki shares some of the leading technology tools and workflows that gives Colliers an edge in retail real estate.

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  • UK modular builder expands to US, hires former Katerra staff

    Construction Dive

    Four former senior staff members at Katerra, the offsite construction firm that declared bankruptcy earlier this year, have landed new roles with a London-based construction technology company. The former Katerra directors joined U.S. operations last month at Modulous, which is opening its first U.S. office in the Seattle region. The contech company offers a digitized platform to modernize the design and construction process of modular housing. At its peak in early 2019, Katerra reached a …

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  • Ben Christensen & Marisa Repka | Cambium Carbon | 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize

    JMK Fund

    Each year 36 million trees fall in American cities. The vast majority are mulched, landfilled, or burned—at eye-popping economic and environmental cost. At the same time, cities struggle to equitably reforest neighborhoods, with communities of color long burdened by unequal access to benefits that urban trees provide. Connecting these two challenges, Cambium Carbon leverages the urban tree life cycle, showing that by processing—rather than discarding—downed urban trees, we can create a waste-to-…

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  • Companies Face a Dilemma: Delay Office Reopenings Again, or Take a New Approach?

    Wall Street Journal

    For much of the pandemic, a familiar ritual played out in America’s workplaces: Companies set return-to-office dates, only to later backtrack and delay them due to health concerns. With Covid-19 cases on the rise once again and U.S. authorities warning of a potential surge in infections this winter, employers find themselves questioning their approaches again….

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