A Commercial Real-Estate Investor Pivots to Digital-Related Assets

Colony Capital sells its warehouses and hotels and puts its money in cell towers, data centers and other digital infrastructure

Here Come Hot Desks and Zoom Rooms. And Holograms?

As more companies consider plans to bring workers back to the office, experts say to expect expanded gathering spaces and fewer personal workstations.

Riders Are Abandoning Buses and Trains. That’s a Problem for Climate Change.

On the London Underground, Piccadilly Circus station is nearly vacant on a weekday morning, while the Delhi Metro is ferrying fewer than half of the riders it used to. In Rio, unpaid bus drivers have gone on strike. New York City subway traffic is just a third of what it was before the pandemic….

Avvir raises $10M for AI that spots construction site errors

Avvir, a startup using laser scans and AI to catch construction mistakes, today announced that it raised $10 million in a funding round led by Trust Ventures. The New York-based startup, which is valued at $40 million, says it’ll use the funds to expand its workforce while improve its technology platform.

With an ARR topping $250 million, LA’s vertical SAAS superstar ServiceTitan is now worth $8.3 billion

Who knew building a vertical software-as-a-service toolkit focused on home heating and cooling could be worth $8.3 billion? That’s how much Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan, a startup founded just eight years ago, is worth now, thanks to some massive tailwinds around homebuilding and energy efficiency that are serving to boost the company’s bottom line and netting it an unprecedented valuation for a vertical software company, according to bankers….

Latch & AvalonBay Partner to Create an Affordable, Tech-First Resident Experience

AvalonBay Communities is one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the world, and NMHC’s third largest apartment owner in the United States. With upwards of 90,000 apartment units across the country, they own and develop multifamily buildings in both urban and suburban environments to appeal to many types of renters.

Chesnut Properties Pioneers Autonomous Vehicle Hub in Chula Vista

An innovative autonomous vehicle research and development hub is coming to Chula Vista. Millenia Smart Park from developer Chesnut Properties will feature small and large drone aerial testing, marine drone testing and an autonomous vehicle testing track along with office buildings and research space.

Property Owners Look to Lease Space for Cellular Equipment

Hugh Odom is in the middle of a 5G property boom. A former attorney for AT&T and founder of Vertical Consultants, based in Nashville, Tenn., he represents corporations, individuals, municipalities and other property owners who lease the rights for cellular sites to be built on their property.

Platform aims to help cities plan their climate action

Derivative Path Acquisition Empowers ‘Main Street’ with Greater Access to Capital Markets

San Francisco, CA, March 24, 2021; Derivative Path, a leading provider of capital markets technology and derivatives execution services to mid-sized U.S. financial institutions, has acquired Monetics, an innovative debt management platform servicing commercial real estate participants. The transaction democratizes access to capital markets by streamlining workflow between regional banks, credit unions, and the thousands of commercial clients they serve, while opening new revenue channels for the…