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Fifth Wall’s Journey from Launching in 2016 to This Week’s SPAC IPO | by Brendan Wallace

Medium – Fifth Wall Insights
2/10/2021

Today, we closed the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I, the first Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) sponsored by affiliates of Fifth Wall, for $345 million. The SPAC now trades on Nasdaq as “FWAA”. Given the extraordinarily high public market demand for the SPAC, we decided to increase the offering from the originally contemplated $287.5 million to $345 million. FWAA’s IPO was among a limited number of SPAC IPOs to not include warrant coverage alongside its…

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Mighty Buildings nabs $40M Series B to 3D print your next house

TechCrunch
2/10/2021

Once upon a time, the idea of 3D-printed homes felt like a thing of the future. But as housing gets less and less affordable — especially in ultra-expensive markets such as the Bay Area — companies are getting creative in their quest to build more affordable homes using technology.

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Covid Forces Co-Working Firms to Recast Model

Wall Street Journal
2/10/2021

The pandemic is compelling a number of co-working firms to discard original business models, or accelerate the adoption of a new one, with the broader office market under threat.

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Net Zero Finance: Is green finally going mainstream?

Business Green
2/10/2021

For a succinct indication of the direction financial markets are headed in the 2020s and beyond, look no further than the above sentence. Not so much for the words themselves, which few would argue offer a breathtakingly original insight in 2021, but because of the person who wrote them: Larry Fink.

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The world’s most beautiful corporate campus is about to be turned into warehouses

Fast Company
2/10/2021

Within eyesight of drivers on I-5 in Federal Way, Washington, a celebrated exemplar of modernist landscape architecture and building design peeks out from a forest of evergreens. Like a skyscraper turned on its side, the building appears to be a low concrete bridge stretching across the landscape. The long horizontal tiers of its five floors are draped in ivy and overlook a pond and a meadow. It’s surrounded by lush gardens of wildflowers, and threaded through with walking trails that disappea…

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LafargeHolcim and Schlumberger Partner on Development of Carbon Capture & Storage Solutions

ESG Today
2/10/2021

Leading building materials company LafargeHolcim and energy services company Schlumberger’s low-carbon technologies business Schlumberger New Energy announced today a new partnership aimed at exploring the development of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) solutions.

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The future of public safety: why smart cities need to look to the cloud

Smart Cities World
2/10/2021

As urban populations grow, smart cities are leveraging new digital technologies to monitor and optimise water and energy consumption, enhance citizen access to services, create effective transportation infrastructures and deliver the city-wide connectivity that citizens and businesses need.

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WATCH NOW: The Digital Transformation of the Real Estate Investment Market Presented with AppFolio

CREtech
2/9/2021

Investors and CRE professionals have begun understanding the near- and long-term implications of the global pandemic on real estate assets and on their portfolios. As leading investors begin to reactivate their investment strategies, many are instituting new standards to invest smarter, increase productivity, and grow their business — resulting in better financials, communication, and management of assets.

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How 2 Tech Companies Are Evaluating Their Future Workplace Strategies

Bisnow
2/9/2021

Nearly a year after the spread of the coronavirus was declared a pandemic and office workers turned their homes into their workplaces to curb the spread of the virus, the great work-from-home experiment has proved that the trend will at least in part become a fixture of our society.

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[DOWNLOAD NOW] Proptech In Canada Report

Proptech Collective
2/9/2021

Coming from startups, large enterprises and everything in between, we know how hard it can be to create meaningful change. We also recognize silos exist across the real estate, technology, and public sectors, and important voices are being left out of the conversations. That’s why we founded Proptech Collective. We see these challenges as an opportunity to come together to find better solutions and build more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities in Canada and beyond.

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