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CRETech July 08, 2019
As food delivery expands across major U.S. cities, a handful of startup companies are trying to use the latest e-commerce technology to liberate restaurants and grocery stores from pricey, street-facing retail space. The new breed of startups are opening shared kitchens in industrial buildings, hoping to persuade restaurants to quit their storefronts, move to the new spaces and switch entirely ...
CRETech July 08, 2019
Andrea Jang is the Head of Growth, Americas at JLL Spark JLL Spark is an independent division of JLL that operates a global venture fund of $100 million to invest in proptech companies transforming commercial real estate. JLL has structured JLL Spark to operate independently and without th...
CRETech July 08, 2019

The Edge in Amsterdam is widely considered the smartest building in the world.

Since the 15-story office property opened four years ago, its 28,000 sensors have collected roughly 55 terabytes of data on everything from the air’s CO2 levels to workers’ daily coffee orders. If that information were...

CRETech July 08, 2019
In June 2019, investments in private real estate tech companies continue to set new records. For the fourth consecutive month, dollar volume in real estate tech surpassed the billion dollar mark. Total dollar volume reached an estimated $1.1 Billion. Month-to-month, total dollar volume decreased by 45 percent. However, year-to-year (June ’18 & ...
CRETech July 05, 2019
For the past few years, coworking and flexible workspace have been something of a one-way bet for the companies getting into the business. Supply has risen rapidly but demand has risen faster, and so prices have continued to increase. Not anymore. Demand remains robust, but the huge spike in supply has caused the prices flexible office operators can charge to drop in the world’s largest citi...
CRETech July 05, 2019
Can sightless robots reconstruct a room well enough to avoid endlessly bumping into walls? That’s what scientists at the University of Technology Sydney set out to discover in a study published on the preprint server Arxiv.org. They claim their approach, which employed a speaker and a microphone-sporting robot tasked with following a path-planni...
CRETech July 05, 2019

Founded in 2011, Gogoro now makes the best-selling electric scooters in Taiwan, where it is headquartered. The startup has always seen itself as an end-to-end platform developer, however, and today it marked a major milestone with the announcement of a new vehicle sharing system. Called GoShare, the program will start operating with a...

CRETech July 05, 2019
A blockchain initiative for seaborne cargo aimed at cutting costs and improving tracking of shipments is getting a boost with the addition of two big container shipping operations. Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd AG and Japan’s Ocean Network Express said Tuesday they will join the TradeLens platform launched by <...
CRETech July 05, 2019
Investors including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are pouring money into construction startups, betting that the industry is on the verge of sweeping changes. The money could jumpstart automation in a highly labor-intensive business that has been a rare source of well-paying blue-collar jobs over the past decade.
CRETech July 05, 2019
LA-area venture capital firms are on the raise, er, rise. On Monday, Upfront Ventures filed paperwork with the SEC, disclosing its intent to raise as much as $250 million for its third growth-stage investment fund. Ge...