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Redpoint eventures, an early stage Brazilian Venture Capital firm, made a R$50m investment in Housi, a Brazilian property rental platform that spun out of Vitacon, a Brazilian real estate developer. Housi is a housing platform intended to provide rental housing on demand. The company's platform manages apartments and houses that are available for rental digitally without the need for a broker or ...
When two Irish brothers started Stripe Inc. together in 2010, there was little question about where they should put their headquarters. It had to be California. Now, though, Stripe is leaving the tech mecca of San Francisco, awash in tech talent and investor cash, and is in the process of moving its main office about 10 miles to neighboring South San Fran...
Real estate technology start-up RentRedi has set its sights beyond digitizing the road to securing an apartment, and is now focused on deploying technology that would make renting as easy as ordering food or a rideshare. Ease of use is top of mind for the company entering 2020, Ryan Barone, RentRedi’s CEO and chief technology officer tells GlobeSt.com.
The New York-based start-up just closed ...
Nokia is installing an internet protocol/multiprotocol label switching (IP/MPLS) network to digitalise and automate the management of the Finnish power grid. Through the new smart grid, Fingrid, Finland’s nationwide power grid operator, aims to better integrate variable renewables such as solar, wind and micro-generation from bioenergy. The Nokia network will also support all current and legac...
Breather, an on-demand workspace company, fired at least 10 percent of its staff Thursday. The Montreal-based firm, which provides office space across 10 different cities and has more than 100 employees, laid off at least 16 staffers, The Real Deal has learned. In a post on LinkedIn, Breather’s director of research, Anja Jamrozik Otto shared that she and others were leaving the company.
November marked the seventh consecutive billion-dollar funding month for the global real estate tech (proptech) venture capital industry. 46 percent of all investments went to residential real estate tech companies, while 36 percent went to commercial real estate tech companies. In terms of location, North America represented 63 perce...
The winners of the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge were announced this week at the re:Invent 2019 event. The sixth annual contest includes categories for constituent services, solving persistent problems, sustainability and equity, powered by AWS, dream big and public datasets. The competition received more than 100 nominee use cases around how AWS customers...
Smart technology. Green space. Sustainability. For years, apartment owners have been in search of the ideal mix of amenities and building features to attract the best renters. In return, they have been met with an avalanche of suggestions, some of which have hit the mark and others washing out. For example, while virtual tours of apartments have been heavily marketed by vendors as the next big th...
As tension with Zillow builds over Hamptons real estate listings, some residential firms are launching their own consumer-facing portal. The group, dubbed the Hamptons Real Estate Association, plans for HamptonsRE.com to go live Thursday after several months of behind-the-scenes work, sources told The Real Deal. The nascent association was formed earlier this year and includes the Corcor...
RentRedi, a real estate technology startup offering web and mobile applications for landlords and tenants to manage the rental experience, has closed a $1.4 million fundraising round to undergird its growth as it aims at simplifying rental processes nationwide. Venture capital firm TIA Ventures lead the fundraising round that included seed funding and other strategic investors. RentRedi plans to ...