Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Crunchbase
After a banner year for tech, layoffs are here. In fact, as of late June, more than 22,000 workers in the U.S. tech sector have been laid off in mass job cuts so far in 2022, according to a Crunchbase News tally.
CREtech
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Bisnow
Seattle-based Arrived Homes, a single-family real estate investment platform, has funded $11M in houses in the past 30 days, twice the number it funded in all of Q1 2022, amid ramped-up demand for single-family investment.
CNBC
As major American corporations began to welcome workers back in the spring, they were surprised by what they saw: fewer employees than they expected who wanted to return to offices. That was the case at Ford, which told CNBC back in April that the initial numbers were “lower than we expected,” and more recent comments from the CEO of IBM show that many workers at the biggest firms prefer to remain working from anywhere but the office, at least most of the time.
GlobeSt
RealNex, a deal-focused proptech company, recently announced what it referred to as a “major product release” of its RealNex Navigator platform.
CREtech
Hampus Jakobsson, General Partner, Pale blue dot, speaks on why the climate industry is so interesting, problems that climate tech companies face today, and why the whole industry needs to work together in order to make progress.
Commercial Observer
Peek, a virtual leasing tour startup that seeks to be what it calls the “sabermetrics of real estate” by allowing renters to remotely view actual multifamily apartments and landlords to see what the prospects are looking at, has set its sights on challenging proptech giant Matterport.
yahoo finance
WiredScore, the company setting the global standard for technology in the built world through education and certification via WiredScore and SmartScore, has today announced it has raised US$15M in Series B funding, led by Beringea with key participation from notable strategic and venture fund investors including Cushman & Wakefield, Crow Holdings, and Taronga Ventures, in addition to core returning investors Fifth Wall, Bessemer Venture Partners and Jona Capital. This round brings WiredScore…
GlobeSt
As companies continue to puzzle over how to return to offices, and to what degree they can compel workers in a tight labor market, there have been a number of developments in flex space marketplaces.
WSJ
The factory floor at GlobalFoundries Inc.’s Fab 7 beeps, whooshes and whirs—the sounds of robotic arms and other machines making chips for smartphones and cars. It is among the semiconductor maker’s most advanced facilities, and few of its 350-odd manufacturing steps require humans.
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