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When the Hôtel Monville in Montreal opened in 2018, it was one of the first hotels in Canada that offered a truly contactless visitor experience. Guests at the 269-room hotel could check in via the hotel's app or website or at any of the four check-in kiosks in the lobby of the hotel. If a guest forgot a toothbrush, wanted an extra towel or ordered room service, a 3-foot-tall robot would delive...
Industrious and Wythe Hotel turn empty rooms into offices. Faced with a glut of empty rooms, the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg is teaming up with flex-office provider Industrious to offer “on-demand workspaces.” ... It donated 2,000 rooms to front-line workers, according to its website.
PocketList announced it launched with $2.9 million in seed funding, led by David Sacks-led Craft Ventures. Abstract VC and Spencer Rascoff's Wonder Ventures also participated in the Seed round. Rascoff has been busy this year.
CREtech (cretech.com) and FUTURE PropTech, the largest intelligence platforms devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that L.D. Salmanson, CEO and Co-Founder of Cherre, will take the stage for the Reimagining Real Estate Virtual Global Summit, ...
CREtech and FUTURE PropTech are proud to present a four-day completely free Global Virtual Summit that will feature the leading owners, landlords, investors, asset managers, brokers, and technology leaders discussing how they are Reimagining Real Estate during the pandemic. As the largest truly global real estate tech digital summit, attendees will learn from those thought-leaders shaping th...
This week, we officially kick off a series of interviews about the history and future of cities. Our first guest is Greg Lindsay, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things urban. Greg is the director of applied research at NewCities and director of strategy at its mobility offshoot CoMotion. He is also a partner at FutureMap, a geo-strategic advisory firm based in Singapore, a non-resident s...
When we started Connect seven years ago, we realized that we couldn’t just be a news organization. Informing the industry was important, but showing the experience and intelligence behind the deal was just as important. Taking commercial real estate digital took on a whole new meaning. As the proptech world was growing, people realized that new technologies were exciting, but they also had to lo...
Karma Kitchen, the London-based kitchen space startup, has raised £252m in a Series A funding round to open dozens of new sites across Europe. “People think it’s a typo,” laughs Eccie Newton, cofounder of Karma Kitchen, who currently operates one kitchen site, has a five-person team and had initially set out to raise £3m. ...
When Litisha Thomas heard through the gossip mill that the shuttered Sam’s Club where she’d worked for 11 years might be reopening in her rural North Carolina hamlet, she immediately jumped on an internet job board to see if it was hiring. It was, but this wasn’t a conve...
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor has decided to remain an investor for the time being in real estate tech start-up Cadre, which he co-founded. Jared Kushner made the decision as part of a private agreement he made with the company, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Kushner and the company put the divestiture on hold with the understanding that while ...