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CRETech July 24, 2019

Placed against our sci-fi expectations, robotics have largely fallen short — with one notable exception. In 2019, automation is a mainstay in factories and warehouses. There the technology has been proven out in the field, and VCs are happy to invest millions.

This morning
CRETech July 24, 2019
Millions of roads around the world have yet to be mapped, and that’s a real problem, particularly in the developing world. Missing map data can harm disaster response, community planning, and local economies. And while government-run and tax-funded projects like the U.K.’s Ordnance Survey have produced enormous corpora, they’ve largely failed t...
CRETech July 24, 2019

Lyft is offering to the public a set of autonomous driving data that it calls the “largest public data set of its kind,” containing over 55,000 3D frames of captured footage hand-labeled by human reviewers, data col...

CRETech July 24, 2019
There’s so many players in the real estate tech game, it’s hard to keep up. (We’ve tried in numerous pieces such as this one). Now an Austin upstart called Homeward has entered the crowded scene in an ambitious attempt to...
CRETech July 24, 2019

The Largest Commercial Real Estate Conference of 2019 Coming To Brooklyn For The First Time

New York, NY (July 24, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform ...
CRETech July 24, 2019
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hello Alfred, the leading residential experience company, today announced it has acquired the building management technology platform, Bixby, as of today’s date. The acquisition includes Bixby’s assets, team, and customers, and will operate under the Hello Alfred brand. This deal expands Hello Alfred’s foot...
CRETech July 23, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — Bird, a start-up that rents out electric scooters, is being valued at $2.5 billion in a new funding round led by the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, according to three people with knowledge of the deal.

The funding puts Bird’s valuation slightly above the $2.3 billion that it was pegged at last year. At th...

CRETech July 23, 2019
New York, NY—Pinnacle Storage Properties plans to list more than $100 million of self-storage properties on a forthcoming blockchain-based commercial real estate financing platform called Earn.re. Besides listing the properties, Pinnacle Storage is also a project sponsor for the platform, which is scheduled to launch in late 2019. Based in Katy, Texas, Pinnacle Storage Properties is a private...
CRETech July 23, 2019
If you can make it here, you probably can’t make it anywhere else.

Data, the fuel on which so much of the technology and appraisal of real estate runs, is up-to-date and in abundant supply in Gotham, but still living in the dark ages in the rest of the country.