Frontdesk offers securely-managed short-term stays at the best apartments in the best cities. Milwaukee-based corporate home-sharing startup announced it has completed another fund...
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The Guild, a real estate startup focused on corporate travel, has raised $25 million to expand its national footprint and further its tech offerings. The round, announced Monday, brings the company’s total haul to $32 million since 2016. Participants included venture firms Maveron, Convivialite Ventures and ATX Venture Partners as well as RXR Realty, Corigin and Nivol Investment Group. A cross...
2019 was a record-setting year for PropTech. From the highest highs (a record $16 billion in VC investments) to the lowest lows (WeWork implosion), 2019 may well go down as one of the most eventful years to date for PropTech. And, going into 2020, there is cautious excitement around PropTech, coupled with the possibility of explosive growth ahead. Will 2020 be the year that delivers this explosiv...
Proptech is a $20 billion industry that’s already reshaping and upending traditional real estate as we know it. And this is just the beginning. Each Thursday, The Real Deal’s Future City newsletter breaks down the biggest news in proptech across the globe, from 3-D printer homebuilders in Long Island, to emerging tech brokerages in I...
Queens is getting a new tech-driven brokerage. Commercial real estate broker Michael Wang, who co-chairs the real estate committee at the Queens Chamber of Commerce, announced the launch of Project Queens last week. The brokerage will focus solely on commercial real estate in Queens. A representative for the brokerage said its technologies include the use of geofencing data to analyze market demo...
Perch, the vertically integrated platform for buying and selling homes, has today announced the close of a $36 million equity round led by Navitas, with participation from existing investor FirstMark Capital, Juxtapose and Accomplice. The company is also announcing that it is rebranding from Perch to Orchard. Orchard launched in September of 2017 with a plan to bring the...
Oyo, a start-up that offers budget hotel rooms, has grown into one of India’s most valuable private companies and aims to be the world’s largest hotel chain by 2023. But at least part of Oyo’s rise in India was built on practices that raise questions about the health of its business, according to financial filings, court documents and interviews with 20 curren...
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HomeLane, a Bangalore, India-based furniture company, raised $30m in Series D funding. The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $46m, was led by Evolvence India Fund (EIF), Pidilite Group and FJ Labs with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and JSW Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach to other...
A sister company of Google has new ideas about how to automate distribution centers. X Development, the experiment and idea-focused subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet Inc., filed two patent applications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the past week, Supply Chain Dive reports. Both applications describe robots designed to analyze the position of items in a warehouse and, if need be, ...