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brandonlin July 20, 2021
Exploding demand for curb space in urban areas has inspired new technologies like "digital smart zones" that help cities manage those narrow but increasingly valuable tracts of real estate.
brandonlin July 20, 2021
Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure finance and development firm, this morning announced a $2 billion fundraise from major institutional investors, Ben writes.
brandonlin July 20, 2021
Joanna Smith, the founder of edtech startup AllHere, recently raised an $8 million Series A after bootstrapping her company first. A former...
brandonlin July 20, 2021
Face-recognition tech is coming to a store near you, if it's not there already, and that's sparking a new wave of opposition.
brandonlin July 20, 2021
The stop light was a design inevitability. As cars grew in popularity around the turn of the 20th century, several inventors developed a glowing box filled with round, incandescent lights to tell people when to stop and go. Which is why, since the traffic sign...
brandonlin July 20, 2021
Serena Williams is investing an undisclosed amount in Esusu, a fintech start-up that allows renters to build and improve credit by reporting their rent payments to credit bureaus. The tennis superstar provided the backing through her venture capital firm, ...
brandonlin July 20, 2021
Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. The approval process for this currently can take days and is still largely done on paper. Enter Jones. The New York-based commercial real e...
brandonlin July 19, 2021
Today, a new company called "Vertis" came out of stealth and heralded the general availability of its Vertis Market Intelligence Platform. Vertis says its new platform provides dynamic insights to executive, HR, and real estate leaders by leveraging billions of data points and proprietary data science. The data accessible through the Vertis Market Intelligence Platform allows business leaders a...
brandonlin July 19, 2021
The owner of a network of members’ clubs built on exclusivity is offering up its stock to the masses. Membership Collective Group, parent company of the Soho House chain of private clubs, raised $420 million in an initial public offering of 30 million shares Wednesday.
brandonlin July 19, 2021
Adam Neumann and Masayoshi Son were negotiating a possible $20 billion check when Mr. Son pulled up an image of Yoda on his iPad. It was summer 2018 and Mr. Son’s tech conglomerate, SoftBank Group Corp., had already pumped over $4 billion into WeWork, the shared office space startup Mr. N...