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TechCrunch
Yac, the digital voice messaging service that launched last year, has raised new money from the Slack Fund as it continues to gain ground among companies looking to give their employees new communication tools for remote working.
Granite
Granite Properties, a commercial real estate investment, development and management company, has launched “Inspire Wellness,” a $10 million comprehensive program to enhance the health and safety of its office buildings and new development projects in response to the pandemic. As part of the “Inspire Wellness” initiative, Granite has retrofitted touchless fixtures, installed UV lighting and is integrating Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization (NPBI) technology to continuously purify the air across Grani…
CREtech
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The New York Times
Catie McKee was nervous. It was last October, and the 31-year-old hedge fund analyst, who had been scrutinizing the mortgages on the nation’s malls, was convinced that some of those malls would default on their loans. She and her colleagues had even bet a substantial amount of money on that likelihood.
Wall Street Journal
This summer, executives at health-care-technology firm Epic Systems announced a plan: Most of the 9,500 employees at its 1,000-acre campus in Wisconsin would be expected back in the office in September. The company, like many others, says its employees do their best work when they can collaborate in the same space. But blowback to the mandate was swift. Employees expressed fears about safety and spreading the new coronavirus. Local health officials questioned the move. So Epic joined legions of …
Crunchbase
Homebuying and selling platform HomeLight acquired listings manager Disclosures.io to launch a new offering called HomeLight Listing Management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Disclosures.io raised about $120,000 since its inception in 2017, according to Crunchbase data. This is HomeLight’s second acquisition, with the company, also based in San Francisco, acquiring mortgage origination and underwriting company Eave, in July 2019….
Forbes
Eden Health, a telemedicine company founded in 2015, raised $25 million in Series B financing, in part to expand its partnerships with commercial real estate firms through virtual and in-person health consultations. The funding round—which was led by Flare Capital Partners, with participation from Greycroft, Aspect Ventures, and other investors—places Eden Health’s valuation close to $100 million, according to a source familiar with the matter.
CREtech
CBRE’s New CDTO, Sandeep Dave, Shares His Perspective on the Acceleration of Real Estate Technology Adoption at CREtech’s Reimagining Real Estate Global Virtual Summit. Moderated by event Co-Chair, Emily Wright of Estates Gazette.
GlobeSt.com
Real estate investment platform PeerStreet recently expanded the opportunities available for investing through its peer-to-peer lending service.
Facility Executive
OSCRE International, a non-profit organization focused on the benefit of real estate standards and data governance for the entire real estate asset life cycle, is providing free access to the OSCRE Industry Data Model™ (IDM). The IDM is a tool developed to improve data integrity, transparency, agile response time, and enable better insights to inform better outcomes for organizations that have struggled with collecting data from disparate systems.
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