Proptech investment platform Bricklane has more than doubled the size of its portfolio with the acquisition of 74 rental properties worth a combined £13.6m. The platform, which allows the public to invest in property portfolios for a little as £100, acquired the units from the British Residential Unit Trust in a cash and shares transaction. The units are spread across...
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brace, a digital mortgage-servicing platform, today announced that it has raised an additional $10M in Series A funding led by Point72 Ventures. The investment round, which received participation from existing investors, including Crosslink Capital, brings the company’s total funding to $15M in less than two years. The financing will be used to expand the Company...
SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past decade, technology start-ups grew so quickly that they couldn’t hire people fast enough. Now the layoffs have started coming in droves. Last month, the robot pizza start-up Zume and the car-sharing company Getaround slashed more than 500 jobs. Then the DNA testing company 23andMe, the logistics start-up Flexport, the Firefox maker M...
CBRE is planning to lay off more than three dozen employees in its New York office due to a shift in business priorities. The world’s largest commercial real estate services firm filed a notice with the state’s Department of Labor earlier this month stating it planned to let go 40 employees.
Previously Azevtec, the Golden, Colorado-based company has the ambitious goal of changing the way Fortune 500 companies “move products from the warehouse door to the road.” It has been quietly operating and working on its technology since June 2017. Outrider raised an $8.5 million seed round, led by NEA, in June 2018, and then a $44.5 million Series A led by 8VC in April 2019. Other investors ...
On Wednesday, furniture rental service Feather announced it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Cobalt Capital. This comes less than a year after the company’s $12 million Series A and brings its total equity funding to $46 million. High-quality furniture costs a lot of money, and its value goes down dramatically once it is used. And for people who move around a lot, buying ...
Biproxi, the leading end-to-end commercial real estate platform trusted by the world’s largest commercial brokerages, today announced that it has acquired Officespace.com. The acquisition will allow Biproxi to consolidate all of its commercial real estate (CRE) data and listings on the Officespace.com website, which is already the second largest CRE listing site in the U.S. with over 550,000 lis...
WeWork, amid its rapid expansion in 2018, paid more than $2M to a female employee in the real estate division who was threatening to blow the lid off claims of rampant sexual harassment, pay discrimination and widespread drug use within the company. In a 50-page document obtained by Business Insider, the woman reportedly said she would sue the company and make a complaint to the Equal Employment...
NEW YORK (February 25, 2020) – Soil Connect, an innovative digital platform connecting those who have soil with those who need it, today announced the launch of version 2.0 of its mobile and web-based app, bringing much-needed modernization to the transport and management of soil, aggregates and other materials. In conjunction with the launch, Soil Connect announced that its first institutional ...
While EnerNOC’s Energy Intelligence Software business was a pioneer in energy management serving a wide variety of industries, its spin-off by former EnerNOC leaders, Hatch Data, is focused squarely on the $15 trillion commercial real estate market. This is a logical step, given the increasing concentration on environmental, social and governance issues that come with real estate ownership.