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Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellite technology that the iPhone maker could use to beam internet services directly to devices, bypassing wireless networks, according to people familiar with the work. The Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design industries working on the project with the goal of deploying the...
RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ:RP), a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, today announced that it has closed its acquisition of Buildium® (www.Buildium.com), a leading SaaS real estate property management solution provider with approximately 2 million units under management in the SMB market segment. “The SMB market segment represents a tremen...
Culdesac — working with architecture firm Optico — is creating the "world's first post-car development" that will be completed in the fall of next year. The neighborhood — which won't have any parking for private cars — will be in Tempe, Arizona, which was chosen because of its growing number of jobs and population, and available land near a light rail station. The only parking spaces wi...
As we barrel towards the start of a new decade, it’s amazing to think about the ongoing transformation within real estate. In the U.S., housing’s contribution to our GDP is ~1
By their nature, cities are dynamic and ever-changing, shaking off the past and constantly reinventing themselves to face the future. But something seemed to happen to U.S. cities over the last decade, a kind of stasis in the face of rapid change. That may seem counter-intuitive, considering just how much urban America changed, from the introduction of new technologies and startups to building boo...
First is a machine learning-based platform that helps agents know when to reach out to consumers in their existing network.
I’m proud to announce that Sapphire Ventures has raised more than $1.4 billion in new capital commitments, bringing our total assets under management (AUM) to almost $4 billion. You can read the full announcement here. This larger capital commitment gives us the flexibility to support more entrepreneurs who are building what we call Companies of Consequence: visionary companies that seek...
This week was a relatively slow week in in real estate tech venture capital, with multiple deals in insurance, construction and investment management technologies. The largest deals took place in the insurtech and lease process management categories. In Europe, wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurtech company, has boosted its Series B to $235M after closing an additional $110 million. In the US,...
In Los Angeles, rising rents are forcing people to leave the city and exacerbating the area’s homelessness crisis. The county needs more than half a million new units of affordable housing to meet demand. A new startup, called United Dwelling, wants to take advantage of the county’s 250,000 underused two-car garages (and its hundreds of thousands of backyards) to tackle the problem—making a ...