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CRETech January 06, 2020
AI is no longer poised to change the world someday; it’s changing the world now. As we begin a new year and decade, VentureBeat turned to some of the keenest minds in AI to revisit progress made in 2019 and look ahead to how machine learning will mature in 2020. We spoke with PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala, University of California professor Celeste Kidd, Google AI chief Jeff Dean, Nvidia dire...
CRETech January 06, 2020
The discounts and freebies many tech startups have used to lure customers—free lunch delivery, $3 beauty products and bargain taxi rides—have fallen out of favor with investors who are losing patience with the failure of these companies to turn a profit. The proliferation of subsidized products and services from venture-capital-backed startups over the past decade reflected a rush by investor...
CRETech January 06, 2020
It’s not easy to make the transparent visible, particularly when it comes to infrastructure. It’s easy to take the mundane for granted except for when things go wrong: our cell phone networks; the modern electrical grid that has been around for more than 100 years; our water and sewage systems; and especially the buildings we spend most of our lives inside of. The building you call home, or...
CRETech January 06, 2020

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. It’s finally 2020, the year that should bring us a direct listing from home-sharing giant Airbnb, a technology company valued at tens of billions of dollars. The company’s flotation will be a key event ...

CRETech January 06, 2020
North America has long been the leader of the proptech universe. While the U.S. has a greater number of proptech companies and a higher dollar volume,  the entrepreneurial bug is spreading across Europe’s real estate industry, creating a new generation of real estate professionals and innovative companies. Over the past decade, the European proptech market has witnessed a significant rise in v...
CRETech January 06, 2020
The complexities around the buying and selling of residential real estate has spawned a multitude of startups here in the United States. But those complexities extend beyond this country, and so do the startups out there trying to tackle them. As evidence of that, this morning, Brazilian digital real estate platform Loft announced it has closed on $175 million in Series C funding co-led by Vulcan...
CRETech January 06, 2020
Prologis, the country’s largest owner of industrial space, dropped $21.5 million for a warehouse in Ridgewood, Queens — at least its third acquisition in the area this year, property records show. The real estate investment trust bought the 120,000-square-foot warehouse at 24 Woodward Avenue between Metropolitan and Flushing Avenues from Willowen Management Corp. in a deal that closed on Mond...
CRETech January 03, 2020
Here at Crunchbase News, we write about a lot of funding rounds and the investors leading them. Most of the time, those investors tend to be venture capitalists, but a growing number have been private equity firms. I’ve seen the names of private equity firms pop up in some of the funding rounds I’ve covered, but I started thinking about it more after attending a dinner hosted by
CRETech January 03, 2020
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 Indi...
CRETech January 03, 2020
In the fall of 2017, Compass announced an ambitious plan to grab 20 percent market share in the country’s top 20 cities by 2020. As the deadline approaches, CEO Robert Reffkin told agents the firm still had some ways to go. In a year-end letter to agents on Tuesday, Reffkin said Compass had exceeded 20 percent market share — or come close — in cities like San Francisco and Washington, D.C...