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Raise Partners With Valve, the Leading SaaS Technology Platform Powering the Global Flexible Workspace Market to Deliver Real-Time Availability and Insights for Office Occupiers

Business Wire
5/25/2022

Raise, a technology-powered commercial real estate brokerage, today announced its partnership with Valve, the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for the flexible office industry, to harness the company’s real-time availability and transaction platform to enable companies to harness the insights and flexible options necessary to support continued efforts to decentralize the office footprint….

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Inspirational Woman: Tzvete Doncheva | International Investor Relations Lead, PropTech1 Ventures

We Are Tech Women
5/25/2022

She leads on fundraising and platform activities in non-German speaking markets, fostering connections with property investors, who seek to better leverage technology in their portfolios. Through her work, she helps to strengthen the fund’s brand across the continent. Her experience in VC includes being on the investment team at a supply chain-focused fund and in a platform role at the VC spin out of multinational real estate investment manager Round Hill Capital.

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The crypto-pocalypse comes for MiamiCoin

Axios
5/25/2022

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez hoped that the cryptocurrency, launched last summer, would help him raise revenue and reduce income inequality — and the eyes of other mayors were on the experiment, Alex Fitzpatrick writes….

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How do FTSE 100 REITs approach tech and sustainability?

PlaceTech
5/25/2022

Both landlords have published their full year results to the end of March 2022. Although much of the focus has been on the rebound in their financial position, post-lockdown, these reports also offer a progress report on their sustainability targets. ESG is high on both developers’ agenda. Allan, for example, linked his company’s “strong position, financially and operationally” to meeting environmental targets.

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Latch, a proptech meets SaaS play, conducts two consecutive weeks of layoffs

TechCrunch
5/25/2022

In the email viewed by TechCrunch, Latch CEO Luke Schoenfelder told staff that the first round of layoffs were conducted to “ensure Latch is on a path to sustainable growth.” He also said that Latch will be reducing some areas of the business, but unsure if that means cutting entire products or just shrinking resources behind each vision. TechCrunch reached out to Latch about this week’s layoffs but has not yet heard back at time of publication.

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For Tech Startups, the Party Is Over

The Wall Street Journal
5/25/2022

A dizzying turn in technology-startup investing is undoing the fortunes of founders and investors riding a 13-year bull run. Highflying startups have been grounded, swiftly, by the new climate: layoffs, skeptical investors, an exodus of funds and the prospect of a valuation haircut.

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Developing sustainable buildings through circular design

Eolas Magazine
5/25/2022

The construction sector is witnessing an unprecedented policy and regulatory environment for climate-related legislation and action plans in Ireland. Organisations are becoming concerned about the impact of climate-related risks on their business, strategy, and outlook, writes Matt Kennedy, Carbon and Climate Lead, at Arup in Ireland.

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Why we need global cooperation on decarbonizing cities and real estate

World Economic Forum
5/25/2022

In an increasingly challenging and volatile world, the urgent need to decarbonize real estate remains a constant. There are no quick fixes that will suddenly transform today’s energy inefficient buildings into models of sustainable construction in the coming decades. It will take time, investment and expertise to retrofit the majority of buildings across urban areas. …

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Proptech Company View in Danger of Being Delisted on Nasdaq

Commercial Observer
5/25/2022

Last week, View anticipated that it would disclose a cash balance of $201 million at the end of the first quarter of this year with no substantial debt, but it did not formally report its results, according to a company statement. Its stock price slipped below $1 on May 11 — and currently hovers at around $0.60 a share — after the firm announced there may be “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue,” because it lacks enough cash to meet its operating costs and obligations for a…

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Nomagic picks up $22M for its e-commerce warehouse picking robots

TechCrunch
5/25/2022

Robotics are playing a growing role in the world of e-commerce logistics and fulfillment — where they are seen not just as a way to speed up operations but to drastically reduce the costs of running them — and today a startup developing software and hardware specifically in the area of robot picking is announcing some funding.

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