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If you follow the money trail, it looks like retail tech investors are betting on physical stores. CB Insights, a market intelligence platform that analyzes tech funding deals, found investment in 2019 began to shift away from e-commerce and direct-to-consumer companies, and toward tech that makes physical stores smarter, such as cashier-less checkout, robots that r...
Convertible notes are not just for early-stage startups any more. These promissory notes, which are structured as debt that convert into equity upon a specific event like a certain date or the closing of a priced investment round, are increasingly being adopted by established companies that have already raised millions of dollars in venture capital.
CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, will be showcasing the leading-edge commercial estate development companies at its first event in 2020. CREtech has announced that Charles Kuntz, Innovation Officer at Hines, and one of the most respected professionals in the world of real estate tech, will be one of the featured spe...
New York-based coworking provider Coalition Space was evicted from its branch at 68 Harrison Ave. in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood Jan. 14 after not paying rent in November and December, according to court records. The coworking company, through a dedicated special purpose entity it set up for the space, had paid less rent than it owed for 14 months prior to that, lawyers for landlord Mai Luo cl...
The adoption of 5G in the commercial real estate sector has proved more challenging than expected for developers, landlords and building owners constructing or enhancing the digital infrastructures of their properties, Arie Barendrecht, CEO of WiredScore, a CRE tech firm and creator of a digital connectivity rating system for the sector, tells GlobeSt.com.
Commercial real estate data firm Reonomy, a few months removed from a $68M funding round, has sealed another partnership to beef up its data offerings. Reonomy has launched an exclusive partnership with Infogroup, bringing the data company's information on hundreds of millions of individuals and tens of millions of businesses onto the property data firm's platform. Terms of the deal were not di...
The federal government in December put out a call that it was looking for co-working space nationwide. A request for proposals from the General Services Administration noted that 50% of dollars allotted would go toward small businesses — but coworking operators would have to be active in at least four locations to qualify. That was a threshold many such companies were too small to meet.
Seven years ago, MIT debuted a landmark project, which allowed everyday people to photograph and rate their streets like a Hot or Not for cities. It was a powerful showcase of how crowdsourcing opinions from citizens could help quantify a city’s appeal and, in theory, help urban designers plan better cities.