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CRETech April 12, 2019
As flex-working increases in popularity, maximizing the potential and effectiveness of office space is a challenge for many companies. To provide occupiers in EMEA and North America access to real-time occupancy analytics technology, Colliers International is partnering with Basking Automation, a Colliers Proptech Accelerator powered by Techstars company. The market for occupancy analytics in c...
CRETech April 12, 2019
On March 14th, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Boston’s Real Estate Tech Councilpresented the second annual “Shark Tank” Competition. The event ...
CRETech April 12, 2019
Listening to your tenants is well and good, but creating office buildings that people actually want to work in requires an additional step: analysing what they actually do. The ability to utilise data to measure how people use offices and the districts around them is revolutionising the ability of office owners to understand how best to design buildings and the amenities to add, according to ...
CRETech April 12, 2019

Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it’s apparently a problem that is resonating with the market, as the startup reports 700 percent growth in the last year. That caught the attention of investors, who awarded them a $65 million Series C investment to help keep accelerating that growth...

CRETech April 12, 2019

Widespread closures have roiled the retail industry, but many more stores are likely to shut down in coming years to keep up with a shift to online shopping, according to a report by investment firm UBS.

An estimated 75,000 stores that sell clothing, electronics and furniture will close by 2026, when online shopping is expected to make up 25 percent of ...

CRETech April 12, 2019

Lemonade, the insurance startup founded by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, has today announced a $300 million Series D financing led by the SoftBank Group, with participation from Allianz, General Catalyst, ...

CRETech April 12, 2019

Earlier this week, Walmart announced a wide-scale expansion of in-store technology. The news came, of course, as the superstore chain is fighting Amazon’s encroachment with everything it has. The list includes several robotics technologie...

CRETech April 12, 2019
WeWork and the current wave of flexible office providers haven’t just disrupted the existing office real estate world: They have shown it to be lazy and out of touch with the reality of the way people use buildings. That was the challenging assertion of HB Reavis UK Chief Executive Steven Skinner in opening remarks at Bisnow London's Creative Office Bash, held at the company’s 33 Central bu...
CRETech April 12, 2019
Hipster-ish office workers will soon be joining the costumed characters in Times Square. WeWork has inked a lease for about 45,000 square feet at
CRETech April 12, 2019
When the first real estate crowdfunding firms launched about five years ago, they were met by plenty of skeptics. Yet the sector has continued to shake off uncertainty and win over a growing base of sponsors and investors. “The initial stigma of crowdfunding is long gone and everyone in our industry, even the largest groups, recognize it as a viable source of capital raises,” says Stephen C...