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Real estate technology platform, MoxiWorks has acquired Imprev, an automated marketing service. Imprev’s services will be implemented in MoxiWork’s products, software and platform to improve brokerage processes.
Orbital Insight, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based the geospatial analytics software company, closed a $50m Series D financing. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Clearvision Ventures, with participation from new investors Invicta Growth, Bunge Ventures Ltd, Chevron Technology Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Tech Pioneers Fund, and others, and returning investors GV, Geodesic Capital, SKY Perfect JSAT, ...
The rise of technologies that help the elderly stay in their homes threatens to upend one of commercial real estate’s biggest bets: Aging baby boomers will leave their residences in droves for senior housing. Developers and senior-housing companies have spent billions of dollars over the past five years to build facilities that provide housing, food, medical care and assistance for the elderly....
New technology company RetailTenant is helping to cure retail today’s biggest dilemma: tenant mix. The an online platform that enables retail landlords and their brokers to find the perfect tenants. Andrew Tavakoli launched the company, leveraging his 30 years of retail experience to curate a successful tenant mix for owners.
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About a year ago, my co-founders and I quit our jobs to build better office furniture. We didn’t have much (any) experience in the furniture world, but our time in commercial real estate and startups had exposed us to some problems that needed fixing. We were convinced that growing companies deserved an end-to-end furnishing option that inspired their teams and adapted to their needs, without br...
With a group of people surrounding him, Neal Krajewski lifted up his cellphone with the screen facing toward the crowd, pointed the phone’s camera at an image on a banner, and within seconds, a video appeared. Krajewski, an Ormond Beach, Florida, real estate agent, was showing off how agents and commercial real estate brokers could use his augmented reality application, Captum, in their own vir...
WeWork is going back to its roots. In a repudiation of the excess of its erstwhile CEO Adam Neumann, WeWork announced Friday via an October 11-dated deck that it’s dropping The We Company’s push into activities that went past its “core” co-working business. Instead, it’s pivoting back to what it describes as its “pre-2017” model. The deck covers WeWork’s new 90-day “game plan”...
Flexible office space, once a niche offering, is experiencing a meteoric rise. In the last decade, so-called “flex space” increased more than 600 percent across the United States. Just in the last year, the market grew 23 percent in Manhattan alone, according to CBRE. While most people associate coworking with a flexible office, that’s just one type of company that takes advantage of its pe...
Vimal Kapur leads the Honeywell International unit that manages commercial buildings. He met with Barron’s in a Manhattan high rise, of course, to explain how the company’s industrial Internet of Things, or IioT, platform called Honeywell Forge is transforming his division. Honeywell (ticker: HON) believes its long-term expertise in control technologies—such as the building systems...
Amazon.com Inc. plans to launch a new supermarket brand distinct from the Whole Foods Market chain the company acquired two years ago, a sign of the retail giant’s hunger for a slice of the grocery market beyond high-end organic food. The company has posted four job listings for “Amazon’s first grocery store” in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of L...