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Politico
In five years’ time, the structure of Europe’s cities won’t be decided in local town halls but inside a quiet 19th-century chapel in a leafy neighborhood of Barcelona. Housed in the deconsecrated Torre Girona chapel, the MareNostrum supercomputer — one of the world’s most powerful data processors — is already busily analyzing how to improve city planning in Barcelona.
PR Newswire
Spaceti solutions, distributed via its partner’s network in more than 20 countries, create hybrid, flexible, and sustainable built environments. Spaceti’s platform serves large Enterprise clients such as Vodafone, Deloitte, Steelcase, and asset managers like CBRE, British Land, and PFA, covering more than 30mil. + square feet.
Crunchbase
Startup accelerator Y Combinator is the latest investment firm to warn the good times may be coming to an end for startups and the venture market. “No one can predict how bad the economy will get, but things don’t look good, ” YC wrote in a letter sent to its portfolio founders this week titled “Economic Downturn.” The contents of the letter were first reported by TechCrunch….
TechCrunch
Belong, a startup that aims to address both these issues while giving renters a way to save toward home ownership, has just raised $50 million in equity and secured $30 million in debt to expand its offerings and markets it serves. Fifth Wall led the equity financing with returning backers Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and GGV Capital. The round was preempted by Fifth Wall, noted Belong co-founder and president Owen Savir. …
Calcalist Tech
Buildots, a company that has developed a system to streamline the construction industry, has announced the completion of a $60 million Series C funding round. The current round of funding, which comes less than a year after their Series B round, is jointly led by venture capital funds Viola Growth and O.G. Tech Partners, together with existing investors TLV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Future Energy Ventures and Maor Investments. To date, the company has raised a total of $106 millio…
TheRealDeal
That central message emerged from an afternoon panel discussion at The Real Deal’s New York City Showcase + Forum Thursday, where the real estate industry was said to be undergoing its most profound transformation in decades.
TheRealDeal
That central message emerged from an afternoon panel discussion at The Real Deal’s New York City Showcase + Forum Thursday, where the real estate industry was said to be undergoing its most profound transformation in decades.
PlaceTech
Make it easy | Decarbonising the built environment is clearly not easy, and can overwhelm those that confront the challenge for the first time. We need to make it seem easy to encourage change. Look for ready-to-go technology. One thing we don’t have is time on our side. Complacency, apathy, greed are arguably the biggest blockers, not the necessary tech, all of which has been invented.
EGi
The trick to getting an industry like real estate to address climate change is to make it easy. So said NREP and sustainable urbanism VC 2150 founder Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby at CREtech Climate in Copenhagen this week. Speaking to a room of key players from across the world on how the
Axios
The facility — which architect Daniel Statham Studio calls “car parking for the future” — will accommodate 500 cars on six levels, four of them underground.
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