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  • Serena Williams invests in rent-reporting fintech Esusu

    CNBC

    Serena Williams is investing an undisclosed amount in Esusu, a fintech start-up that allows renters to build and improve credit by reporting their rent payments to credit bureaus. The tennis superstar provided the backing through her venture capital firm, Serena Ventures, as part of the start-up’s first funding round. “I started Serena Ventures to invest in diverse founders and early-stage companies that outperform and generate impact, while at the same time empowering others and creat…

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  • JLL, Khosla lead Jones’ $12.5M Series A for real estate vendor compliance

    TechCrunch

    Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. The approval process for this currently can take days and is still largely done on paper. Enter Jones. The New York-based commercial real estate startup is curating a marketplace of pre-approved vendors for tenants and property managers to find and hire the people they need in a compliant way….

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  • Vertis Launches With Industry-First Data Science Solution to Optimize Critical Workforce and Workplace Strategies and Decisions

    VMblog.com

    Today, a new company called “Vertis” came out of stealth and heralded the general availability of its Vertis Market Intelligence Platform. Vertis says its new platform provides dynamic insights to executive, HR, and real estate leaders by leveraging billions of data points and proprietary data science. The data accessible through the Vertis Market Intelligence Platform allows business leaders at high-growth enterprise companies to make quick, actionable decisions about real estate, talent, an…

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  • Private club goes public: Soho House IPO raises $420M

    The Real Deal

    The owner of a network of members’ clubs built on exclusivity is offering up its stock to the masses. Membership Collective Group, parent company of the Soho House chain of private clubs, raised $420 million in an initial public offering of 30 million shares Wednesday.

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  • The We That Didn’t Work at WeWork

    The Wall Street Journal

    Adam Neumann and Masayoshi Son were negotiating a possible $20 billion check when Mr. Son pulled up an image of Yoda on his iPad. It was summer 2018 and Mr. Son’s tech conglomerate, SoftBank Group Corp., had already pumped over $4 billion into WeWork, the shared office space startup Mr. Neumann co-founded eight years earlier. Now Mr. Neumann was trying to get Mr. Son to buy a majority stake in WeWork. It would have been the largest acquisition ever of a startup, part of a bid to turbocharge a…

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  • Call for action: Seizing the decarbonization opportunity in construction

    McKinsey & Company

    As one of the world’s biggest economic ecosystems, the construction industry has a major part to play in achieving global sustainability goals. “Ecosystem” in this article refers to the full life cycle (design, materials manufacturing, construction, usage, and demolition) of all residential and commercial buildings and infrastructure. While the industry is generally not seen as a sustainability pioneer, the entire ecosystem looks set to evolve.

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  • Co-Working Spaces Are Back. And There Are Many, Many Options.

    The New York Times

    Though Kia Roberts, who runs her own misconduct investigation firm, originally felt hesitant about joining The Wing, the feminist-aligned co-working space and social club, she fell in love with it after a visit to its Dumbo location in early 2019. “The connections, the beautiful spaces, the great food, the buzzy and boozy events that featured a ton of fascinating speakers” appealed to her, she said. She was a regular at all of the Wing’s New York locations when the pandemic hit, forcing her to …

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  • CREtech Releases Agenda for Leading Real Estate Tech Conference Taking Place This October 13-14 In New York

    CREtech

    New York, NY (July 19, 2021) — CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, recently released an agenda -at-a-Glance to their in-person real estate technology conference, CREtech New York, which will take place this October 13-14 at Pier 36 in Manhattan. The conference is anticipated to bring together over 1,000 of the world’s premier real estate professionals, and will feature notable tech, venture and real estate spea…

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  • Attract and Engage Your Tenants with Exclusive Deals and Discounts

    Lane Perks

    Join a rapidly growing roster of property managers delivering a VIP tenant experience.

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  • Commercial Real Estate Startup Jones Announces $12.5 Million Series A Led by JLL Spark and Khosla Ventures

    Jones

    New York, NY, July 19, 2021 — Jones, the commercial real estate startup whose trusted vendor network makes it easier for tenants and property managers to hire vendors, ensure compliance, and limit liability, today announced it has raised a $12.5 million Series A led by JLL Spark and Khosla Ventures. Strategic players including Camber Creek, Rudin Management, DivcoWest, and Sage Realty also joined the round. Jones will deploy the funding to continue to bring procurement into the digital age with …

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