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Cherre, the NYC-based real estate data and analytics platform, today announced a new data partnership with SafeGraph, a data-focused company powering innovation through open access to geospatial data. Cherre will integrate SafeGraph's Point-of-Interest (POI), geometry, and pattern data into its platform, enabling mutual customers to incorporate industry-leading geospatial data. SafeGraph's...
When asked what they like most about a city they have visited, almost no one answers: “The cars whizzing by on the streets.” Cultural attractions, the people we meet, walking through the city and gazing at plazas, buildings, and places—these are the things that make a city unique. What if there was a way to get more of what we all like and less of the noise and congestion we don’t? Many c...
Jennifer Bradley, founding director of the Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation, an international think tank that advocates for a values-led approach to piloting and implementing urban technologies. “I’m a big digital city skeptic. I think of it as more of a marketing term, a way that cities seek to distinguish themselves from other cities,” Bradley says. Technology that mak...
Airbnb has emerged as the single greatest disruptor of the $500 billion hotel industry over the past decade, and with the peer-to-peer home rental giant gearing up to go public in 2020, a slew of startups have gotten in on the “alternative lodging” action. One of those companies is WhyHotel, a Washington, D.C.-based startup that operates pop-up hotels in newly built “luxury” apartment bui...
Katerra will close its 250,000-square-foot modular building "component and finish" factory in Phoenix and lay off 200 workers this month, a company representative confirmed. In addition, co-founder Fritz Wolff stepped down from his position as a member of the Menlo Park, California-based firm's board earlier this month, to “concentrate on other professional pursuits.”
Sevan Multi-Site Solutions, Inc., a Downers, IL-based global leader in data analytics, surveys, design, program management and construction services, closed a $17.5m Series A funding. The round was led by ABS Capital Partners. As a result of the minority investment by ABS Capital Partners, Managing General Partner Phil Clough will join the Sevan board of directors. The company intends to use the...
WeWork is in talks to sell Managed by Q Inc., a business it owned for about eight months, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal may help the troubled office-sharing company raise cash and refocus on its main business. A group of investors and executives, including Managed by Q co-founder and former Chairman Dan Teran, is trying to buy the ...
Patrick Gasior, senior channel sales manager at Velis Real Estate Tech, describes the digital natives now entering the job market as Generation C (Gen C) for their ability to connect, communicate and change. While these three skills offer a lot of opportunities for employers, this generation also bring challenges. “They expect to have the same technology and communication environment in their ...
The forces that are driving the nation’s top technology talent to just a handful of cities have intensified in recent years, leaving much of the nation behind as the U.S. becomes a more digital economy, according to a new study. Just five metropolitan areas—Boston; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; and San Jose, Calif.—accounted for 90% of all U.S. high-tech job growth between 2005 to 2017...
Lou Baugier is getting physical in the scrum of real estate technology. The former All-American rugby player founded Vero Technologies in 2017 to streamline the multifamily rental process. The Brooklyn-based fintech company says it has reduced the time it takes to assess renter qualification and generate a lease by 99%, automating a process that typically takes days. This year has been a goo...