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Lauren July 22, 2020
Flexible office startup and WeWork rival Knotel is attempting to raise as much as $100 million, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The company, which has previously been valued 
Lauren July 22, 2020
In this episode The Propcast talks to Naqash and Imran about how they together founded REIM Tech Association, and about good proptech's in the market across the world, what technology is missing, and what makes a good pitch to the real estate world.
Lauren July 22, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a move by consumers toward online financial services and demonstrating that banks can operate with fewer physical branches, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive said.
Lauren July 22, 2020
Hippo, an insurtech startup focused on providing home insurance digitally, announced this morning a massive $150 million Series E round at a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion. With the latest round, the Palo Alto-based company has now raised a total of $359 million since its 2015 inception. Hippo reached unicorn status ($1 billion valuation) in July 2019 with a $100 million Ser...
Lauren July 22, 2020
The firm has some 1.9 million square feet of space in New York that’s either available or will become so in the coming months, according to Business Insider, which obtained leaked marketing materials. That’s more than 20 percent of WeWork’s portfolio in the city, and far exceeds the availability rate in Manhattan of 12.1 percent in June.
Lauren July 22, 2020
Unless you’re living under a rock, it’s impossible to unsee the social unrest and power of collective protesting that has overtaken the country these last few weeks. Systematic racism has existed for centuries, but this is an inflection point for us as individuals and society. At Corigin, we value the notion that diverse, representative and extremely talented founders and investors can create ...
Lauren July 21, 2020

Urban centers, with a dynamism that feeds innovation, have long been resilient. But the pandemic could drive a shift away from density. Cities are remarkably resilient. They have risen from the ashes after being carpet-bombed and hit with nuclear weapons. “If you think about pandemics in the past,” noted the Princeton economist Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, “they d...

Lauren July 21, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic should force us to change how we use buildings, argues Meagan Crawford, Executive Director of Urban Economic
Lauren July 21, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic that has kept so many office workers at home since March has also made a fresh case for Teams, Microsoft’s pack...
Lauren July 21, 2020
MeetElise, an AI-powered leasing startup, raises $6.75M. It's rare that apartment seekers limit their searches to business hours. But a New York startup, backed by two of the country's biggest landlords, has built an AI-powered leasing assistant available to field queries 24/7