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CRETech August 22, 2019
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...
CRETech August 22, 2019
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...
CRETech August 22, 2019
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...
CRETech August 22, 2019
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...
CRETech August 22, 2019
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...
CRETech August 22, 2019

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...

CRETech August 21, 2019
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CRETech August 21, 2019
Download CREtech's 2019 Mid Year Report on the State of The Commercial Real Estate Sector today to learn about the record setting $14 billion VC investment into the commercial real estate tech sector in 2019 so far, what to expect in terms of VC investment for the remainder of 2019, the top 5 funding trends of 2019 and more. Plus, get access to our directory of the most innovative technology prov...
CRETech August 21, 2019
In a rare public appearance, attendees of #CREtechNYC2019 will hear from Related's Hudson Yards Chief Digital Officer, Scott Evans and Chief Technology Officer, Kenneth Finnegan, about how technology has shaped Hudson Yards into one of the most globally sophisticated and inn...
CRETech August 21, 2019

Opportunity zones were created to spur development in distressed neighborhoods, but developers in some areas are struggling to find tenants for their new properties. Their savior may be another rising trend in commercial real estate: co-working.

Lured by the lower cost of shared office space, start-ups also gain access to a network...