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Travis Kalanick, the ousted Uber cofounder, has pivoted from the ride-hailing industry to another kind of shareable market: "ghost kitchens." Part of Kalanick's acquisition of the real-estate company City Storage Systems, CloudKitchens — a startup he's been rather hush-hush about — rents commercial space to offer delivery-only restaurants and chefs a place to prepare food without having to wo...
Mace is rolling out the AI-based project monitoring tool Disperse across its business. Paul Connolly, director of technical services at the major contractor, and Felix Neufeld, founder and CEO of Disperse, explain how it has boosted construction efficiency and lightened the burden on project planners. What is Disperse? FN: Disperse is an artificial int...
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The commercial real estate property technology sector witnessed big gains in 2019, having a watershed year with the most invested capital on record. And 2020 is expected to keep up that momentum as investors focus on valuations and revenue as oppose to scalability and growth, Ashkán Zandieh, chief intelligence officer at CREtech, a global real estate tech-focused media, event and advisory platfor...
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CrediFi, a venture-backed startup that jostled for supremacy in the commercial real estate data and analytics space, is shutting down, The Real Deal has learned. Employees at the startup, which has raised $29 million to date, were informed of the company’s decision to close on Tuesday, according to sources. A meeting was held at the company’s Tel Aviv headquarters, and employees in t...
The real estate industry — much like the rest of the world — is still trying to figure out exactly how its connection to cryptocurrency should work. Since virtual money first broke through a decade ago, with the launch of Bitcoin, buyers and sellers of property are increasingly using crypto as a form of payment. And the range of di...
Financial technology startups will enter the next decade with a little more street cred than the last time around. Nearly 60 upstarts focusing on financial services -- from Stripe Inc. to Chime Inc. to Plaid Inc. -- have garnered valuations of more than $1 billion in recent years, according to CB Insights. Pe...
Back in February, Verizon said its 2019 plan was to offer mobile 5G in over 30 cities — a non-trivial task for a carrier focused on the short-distance, millimeter wave flavor of 5G service. Today, the carrier announced it has met its goal with a week to spare, though the accomplishment comes with the caveat that its 5G service is only available in small parts of each city.
As of today, Verizo...
After raising $34.25 million in Series B financing, Chase Garbarino, CEO of tenant experience platform HqO, is geared up for growth. HqO will use this capital to expand its technology, double its engineering team and grow sales and business operations to accelerate national and international expansion. In recent months, the company has opened offices in New York City, London and Paris to fuel its...