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Coworking firm Industrious raised $80M in a new funding round with backing from Brookfield Properties Retail and Equinox, with whom it plans to partner on future locations.
The funding also came from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Riverwood Capital Partners, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Fifth Wall Capital and landlords TF Cornerstone and Granite Properties, Industrious announced ...
AmazonFresh meet Houston, Minneapolis and Phoenix.
Prime members in those cities can purchase fresh groceries and everyday essentials for free two-hour delivery from AmazonFresh beginning Thursday. A one-hour delivery option is also available.
The real estate industry has undergone dramatic shifts over the past few years thanks to tech companies such as Zillow and Redfin, but some aspects of the industry haven’t changed in decades. Most transactions are still handled by a real estate agent, for example.
Some venture capital investors think that will change with the next wave of real estate innovation.
Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary that hopes to someday pepper roads with self-driving taxis, today pulled back the curtains on a portion of the data used to train the algorithms underpinning its cars: The Waymo Open Dataset. Waymo principal scientist Dragomir Anguelov claims it’s the largest multimodal sensor sample corpus for autonomous driving released to dat...
Real Estate Tech Funding Recap. Get more insights and see Ashkán Zandieh, Chief Intelligence Officer, at the largest real estate tech conference, CREtech NYC 2019 - Oct 16-17. Learn more at cretech.com. As the summer months heat up, so does venture capital activity. The heatwave of venture funding continued in July 2019. Global investments in private real estate tech companies reached $1.97 billi...
New moves from top real estate tech companies are revealing the importance of relationships, even in the digital age. Online real estate marketplaces, for example, are now participating in the home buying and selling process, and commercial real estate marketplaces are positioning themselves as tools for brokers, not a potential means to subvert brokerage entirely.
“Technology firms come to r...
Flexible-workspace provider Knotel became the latest start-up to reach unicorn status after it closed on a $400 million funding round, a week after rival WeWorkfiled for an initial public offering (IPO) with a pr...
Welcome to the desert of the real. Jean Baudrillard coined the term in 1981 to describe a world in which reality is a derivative of its representation — a world in which the map is all there is and the territory itself is disintegrating. Baudrillard was grappling with the nature of consciousness in the time of hyperreality, when it is no longer possible to distinguish between what isan...
WILMER, Tex. — At the public library in Wilmer, Tex., books were checked out not with the beeps of bar code readers but with the scratches of pen on notebook paper. Out on the street, police officers were literally writing tickets — by hand. When the entire computer network that keeps the small town’s bureaucracy afloat was recently hacked, Wilmer was thrown in...