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CRETech December 19, 2019

The clock is ticking on Verizon’s plans to bring 5G to 30 cities. Short of an actual Christmas miracle, things are looking rough. On the upside, the carrier (and, disclosure, parent of TechCrunch) just brought the next-gen technology to a nineteenth city. And it’s a doozy.  Verizon announced this morning that it has flipped the switch on ...

CRETech December 19, 2019

Airbnb has well and truly disrupted the world of travel accommodation, changing the conversation not just around how people discover and book places to stay, but what they expect when they get there, and what they expect to pay. Today, one of the startups riding that wave is announcing a significant round of funding to fuel its own contribution to the marketplace. Domio,...

CRETech December 18, 2019

CREtech, the leading commercial real estate technology conference and data company, has announced the acquisition of FUTURE: PropTech, Europe’s largest events company also devoted to the real estate tech sector. The acquisition of the London-based company represents CREtech’s commitment to building the largest international PropTech community through a new global expansion strateg...

CRETech December 18, 2019
HqO, the tenant experience (TeX) platform for commercial real estate, announced today that it has raised $34.25 million in Series B financing to power the company’s continued growth. HqO will use this capital to expand its market-leading technology, double its engineering team, and grow sales and business operations to accelerate national and international expansion. The funding round was led by...
CRETech December 18, 2019
WeWork has entered the next phase of its cost-cutting under SoftBank Group's stewardship. The coworking startup is looking to back out of as many as 100 newly signed leases, which would be at least 10% of its global footprint, The Information reports. New leases were among the biggest expenditures for WeWork in the third quarter, when it reported a loss of $1.25B after its IPO saga resulted in t...
CRETech December 18, 2019
The Collective is upping its bet on co-living in Brooklyn with its third development in the borough — one that will be geared toward students and people looking for short-term stay space. The London-based co-living firm announced Monday that it is developing 292 North 8th Street in Williamsburg, which will mark its sixth project in the U.S. and fourth in New York City. The 100,000-square-foot ...
CRETech December 18, 2019
Microfulfillment centers — located inside existing stores or structures that hold a market’s worth of goods — are increasingly being hailed as the solution for speedy shipping in space-starved city centers. Calgary, Alberta-based Attabotics‘ product condenses aisles of warehouse shelves into single vertical storage structures that roving shuttles traverse horizontally. As for Fabric (forme...
CRETech December 18, 2019
Christopher Yip is joining RET Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused on real estate technology companies for the multifamily and single-family rental industries, as partner and managing director.
CRETech December 18, 2019
In an email to employees last week, Katerra CEO Michael Marks had a few uplifting thoughts on the year gone by. His startup, which seeks to transform the $12 trillion global construction industry through technology and automation, has grown to more than 8,000 employees, is nearing profitability and will soon open a new state-of-the-art factory in California. Clients are returning, he wrote, and t...
CRETech December 18, 2019
Sidewalk Labs, an urban planning subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., is rolling out software it says is capable of generating billions of planning scenarios to create new urban areas. Using machine learning and other tools, the software can also help planners evaluate this multiplicity of design scenarios in terms of how they impact the quality of life for residents, Sidewalk La...