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  • WeWork Has Officially Pulled The Plug On WeLive

    Bisnow

    WeWork handed over management of the two WeLive locations, in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City neighborhood and on Wall Street in Manhattan, to the owners of the buildings, JBG Smith and Rudin Management, a WeWork spokesperson confirmed to BisnowWednesday. “While WeWork will no longer be operating the WeLive space at these locations, WeWork is incredibly grateful to have been a part of the WeLive NYC and Crystal City communities and is excited for their future success under Rudin Management a…

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  • Instacart Forays Into Warehouses in Food Delivery Market

    The Wall Street Journal

    Instacart Inc. is entering the warehouse business, seeking to expand its reach in an increasingly competitive food delivery market. The grocery delivery company said it would start building fulfillment centers for supermarkets over the next 12 months, in partnership with technology company Fabric, in or near grocery stores, with capacity for 10,000 to 50,000 items.

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  • Index Ventures’ trio of new funds leads to $3 billion, and more TikTok

    TechCrunch

    Index Ventures has closed a trio of new funds: a $900 million early-stage fund, a $2 billion growth-stage fund and a previously announced $200 million seed-stage fund. The close gives Index $3 billion in new capital, its largest tranche yet, to deploy into emerging startups and existing portfolio companies, which include the likes of Plaid, Deliveroo and Revolut, which was just valued at $33 billion….

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  • Airbnb CTO says graph neural networks will be big in 2021

    VentureBeat

    Executives have to prioritize whether to experiment with cutting-edge technologies or wait to see results from other implementations first, Airbnb chief technology officer Vanja Josifovski said in a conversation with VentureBeat founder and CEO Matt Marshall at VentureBeat’s Transform 2021 virtual conference. Most enterprises — even large ones — have constrained resources, so they have to decide which technologies to invest in and which to wait out….

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  • Proptech Funding Is Surging, With Construction And Property Management Leading The Pack

    Crunchbase News

    Funding to venture-backed proptech companies has surpassed pre-pandemic levels, according to Crunchbase data, with construction tech and property management startups leading the way. VC-backed real estate companies have raised $10.6 billion so far this year, up from the $8.3 billion that was raised during the same period last year, and higher than any year in that period in the past decade.

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  • New Apartment Boomtowns May Be the Next Bubble

    Bloomberg

    It was hard enough to build apartments in high-cost cities like San Francisco before the pandemic triggered an exodus from urban neighborhoods, and now the economics are even tougher. But that’s giving smaller cities a chance to catch up to the rental boom that previously lifted other non-coastal metros like Austin and Denver. For builders, it’s a riskier calculation.

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  • BIG INTERVIEW: Ivanhoé Cambridge

    PlaceTech

    Having announced a strategic partnership with Fifth Wall earlier this year after investing $85m in four of the VC firm’s funds, Ivanhoé Cambridge is a company determined to grasp the digital future of real estate. But for François Lacoursière, the company’s senior vice president of innovation, it’s not specifically a question of tech. “We shouldn’t be obsessed with tech,” he says. “We should be obsessed with understanding our stakeholder needs and how they evolve. Then the tech will follow.”

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  • ilke Homes picked to deliver 622-home modular site

    PlaceTech

    The modular housing company is to build the UK’s largest low-rise modular housing development – a 622-home scheme in Beeston, Nottingham. Health and beauty retailer Boots selected ilke Homes to unlock a 43-acre site close to its UK headquarters, which has been allocated for residential development since 2014.

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  • Wunderflats Receives $21 Million in Growth Funding to Make It Easier for People to Access Housing in Europe

    Business Wire

    BERLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wunderflats, the leading platform for temporary furnished housing in Germany, announces a $21 million growth funding round to further pursue their vision to be Europe’s most customer-centric housing company where you can simply rent homes online.

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  • RealPage To Acquire G5, Leader in Real Estate Marketing Optimization

    Business Wire

    RICHARDSON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RealPage, Inc., a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire G5 Search Marketing, Inc. (“G5”), a leading pure-play provider of digital marketing, advertising and analytics solutions to the real estate sector. RealPage plans to combine G5’s industry-leading solutions with its end-to-end real estate platform, significantly accelerating RealPage’s v…

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