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brandonlin February 13, 2022

Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. growth equity firm Avenir Growth. Spark Capital and Cherry Ventures, which led the Series A six months ago, also participated. Cosuno now says its valuation is put at $150 million.

Construction is one of the largest industries in the world but amongst the least open to new te...
brandonlin February 13, 2022
The proptech startup Rhino laid off more than 20 percent of its staff, most of them recent hires. The cuts, which came a year after the company’s last funding round, were motivated by recent macroeconomic volatility and a desire to achieve profitability quicker, a Rhino spokesperson said. Rhino’s main offering is an alternative to security deposits — a product that allows renters to pay i...
brandonlin February 13, 2022
When the C-suite has a new management priority, a new job title often follows. In the mid-2000s, businesses
brandonlin February 13, 2022
Nexudus, the white-label platform to manage coworking and flex workspace, has published what it claims is the largest study of the flexible workspace industry ever conducted. With 3.5 million data points analysed across 90 countries, the study reveals key trends in the evolution of the industry over the past five years, including the impact of Covid on flex demand and usage. The study includes ...
brandonlin February 13, 2022
Grosvenor Hill Ventures, the proptech investment subsidiary of Savills, has acquired Cureoscity, a white label tenant and office management software provider.
brandonlin February 13, 2022
As occupiers demand healthier spaces, Derwent London’s White Collar Factory has become the latest prime office building to sign up to an indoor air quality rating scheme.
brandonlin February 13, 2022
Behold the building of the future: mossy stones lying strewn around a hill outside the English city of Windsor, carved, shaped, and incised in the fashions of centuries past. These chunks of 18th-century wall and Victorian cornice have lain in the woods for nearly 100 years, remnants of a British country home dismembered, like so many others, so there’d be nothing left to pay taxes on. Now Matth...
brandonlin February 13, 2022
The vast majority of California’s rooftop solar has been installed on single-family, owner-occupied homes. But Dover Janis, CEO of San Diego, California–based startup Ivy Energy, sees apartment buildings as the state’s rooftop-solar future — if the right combination of technolog...
brandonlin February 10, 2022
Construction management platform Hubble has raised S$11.35 million in Series B funding, with new investors including Taronga Ventures, Kajima Ventures, the venture arm of Japan's Kajima Corp, and Seeds Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore.
brandonlin February 10, 2022
Companies like Opendoor opened the door to a new way of buying and selling properties by inserting a strong middle player who could buy houses or apartments and redevelop them at scale, and then sell them to new homeowners at a profit. Now Clikalia, another player in the so-called iBuyer space, has raised €75 million ($86 mill...