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Sequoia Capital gathered its founders on Zoom to address this “crucible moment.” In its presentation, the firm said “the cost of capital has fundamentally increased....
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 ...
Airtower Networks (“Airtower”), a leading developer, owner, and operator of wireless digital infrastructure and DIF Capital Partners (“DIF”) are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement for DIF to be Airtower’s growth capital partner and support the management team in achieving its strategic vision in building a nation-wide platform. This transaction...
A new research report released today by Deloitte highlights the stark economic differences between taking a coordinated global approach to climate action and failure to act, with inaction on climate change poised to lead to as much as $178 trillion in GDP destruction over the next 50 years, while achieving global climate goals could result in $43 trillion of economic benefit over the same period.
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
How do you start figuring out what tech your offices, shops or warehouses need when there are thousands of startups in the industry? PlaceTech speaks to JLL Spark’s Raj Singh for his advice on getting it right.
Although there are significant benefits to adopting tech – whether in cutting emissions or making spaces more valuable to prospective tenants – Singh, managing partner at JLL’s V...
Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year. The pair say the fund was “oversubscribed.” For the unacquainted, Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes that in March...
WeWork is the lead investor behind a new $30M funding round for a flexible workspace tech startup it began partnering with earlier this year.
Upflex also received funding from Newmark, Cushman & Wakefield and others as part of the Series A round, it announced Wednesday.