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KEVIN DANEHY NAMED CEO OF NORTH AMERICA AT WILLOW

Lauren April 23, 2021

Manhattan, New York (12th April 2021) – Willow, the leading provider of digital twin solutions for intelligent real estate and infrastructure has announced Kevin Danehy as Chief Executive for their fast growing North American business, with Joshua Ridley as Global CEO. In this new role, Kevin will lead the growth of the region across all verticals in Real Estate, Rail and oth...

Fifth Wall joins US$290 Million Series B for on-demand grocery delivery startup, Gorillas

Lauren April 23, 2021

Founded in Berlin in 2020 by Kağan Sümer and Jörg Kattner, Gorillas is an on-demand, ultra-fast grocery delivery company operating in major cities across France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The company’s recent US$290 million financing make...

Blackstone Notches Record $1.75 Billion Profit as Growth Strategy Pays Off

Lauren April 23, 2021

Blackstone Group Inc. BX 5.16% swung to a record quarterly profit as its focus on rapidly growing compani...

An E.V. Start-Up Backed by UPS Does Away With the Assembly Line

Lauren April 23, 2021

An E.V. Start-Up Backed by UPS Does Away With the Assembly Line. Arrival, a developer of electric vans and buses, says it has come up with a cheaper way to build vehicles in small factories. ... “The microfactory allows us to build vehicles profitably at really any volume.”

Last-Mile Warehouse Coworking Concept Raises $10M To Fund Expansion

Lauren April 23, 2021

As more small businesses embrace the e-commerce side of retail, their need for last-mile delivery capability has grown — but the availability of those facilities has shrunk drastically. An Atlanta firm h...

WeWork vet hired to launch Two Sigma’s real estate fund

Lauren April 23, 2021

The former head of WeWork’s real estate investment arm has joined the quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma to help launch its new property investment platform.

Prologis Continues Green Building Leadership with LEED v4 Volume Program

Lauren April 23, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD), the global leader in logistics real estate, announced it will launch the first LEED v4 for Core and Shell Volume Program for the U.S. logistics real estate sector. This new program includes more rigorous standards than the previous LEED Volume Program, establi...

Register Now: Relevation 2021

Lauren April 23, 2021

Our purpose is to facilitate investments in the proptech space, by introducing founders to VC’s, and VC’s to LP’s. All our value proposition is structured around the principle of doing the most efficient matchmaking possible, and allowing our attendees to create meaningful relation...

In Case You Missed It! Check out a tech demo by Facilio from our CREtechU Virtual Summit

Lauren April 23, 2021

Discover a Tech Demo presented by Vishak Chandra Prakash Pre-sales Manager at Facilio. Facilio is an AI-driven property operations p...

‘Tech metal’ firm draws in $120m to fuel clean energy

Lauren April 22, 2021

TechMet, an investor in rare metals needed in EVs and renewable energy systems, has closed its second-round equity fundraising at $120m – a 50% oversubscription on its initial target. Backed by the US government’s Development Finance Corporation, TechMet’s recent success reflects what it calls a period of “both enormous opportunity and enormous challenge”.