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CRETech March 21, 2019
A co-living company whose dormlike accommodations have become popular with single 20-somethings has a new customer in mind: families. Common, which rents out furnished rooms in shared, serviced apartments, is teaming with New York real-estate developer Tishman Speyer to launch this new product on Tuesday.
Under the new brand Kin, buildings will feature playrooms, famil...
CRETech March 21, 2019

Most startups can only dream of a beginning like Openpath's. Founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneurs 

CRETech March 21, 2019
After introducing itself to New York City with a major $450M co-living facility in Brooklyn, The Collective's first U.S. location will actually be in Queens. The Collective has paid $58M to acquire The Paper Factory Hotel in Long Island City, and will spend the next few months and millions of dollars converting it into a "short-stay co-living" facility, where guests will be able to stay up to ...
CRETech March 21, 2019
The company behind the WeWork real-estate empire is starting a “future cities” initiative and has hired former Waze and Google executive Di-Ann Eisnor to run it. According to the We Company, Eisnor and her...
CRETech March 20, 2019
Boris Katz, a principal research scientist at MIT, isn’t that impressed. Over the past 40 years, Katz has made key contributions to the linguistic abilities of machines. In the 1980s, he developed START, a system capable of responding to naturally phrased queries. The ideas used in START helped IB...
CRETech March 20, 2019
Knotel signed two leases for a total of 19,974 square feet on Eighth Avenue in the Garment District, Commercial Observer has learned. The flex office company inked a five-year deal for an 11,400-square-foot lease at East End Capital’s 580 Eighth Avenue, where they’ll occupy the 15th, 16th and 18th floors...
CRETech March 20, 2019
In its quest to roll out the country’s first commercialized fleet of autonomous trucks, TuSimple has added an improved camera and vision system that lets its vehicles operate at night and in low-light situations. Currently, TuSimple can run its trucks for an average of 12 hours per day, or 50 percent usage, but this new system can push that up to an average...
CRETech March 20, 2019
Blueground, a real estate technology company, announced it raised $20 million in funding from a group of investors including New York City-based entrepreneur Kevin Ryan — who is joining the company’s board of directors. Ryan is known for launching several successful businesses including Business Insider, MongoDB, Gilt Groupe, and Zola.com. And Ryan also served as CEO of DoubleClick before Goog...
CRETech March 20, 2019
Over the last decade, agents have been squeezed by the proliferation of online listings portals and automated valuation models. Now, with well-funded “iBuyers” poised to tighten the screws and reduce the agents’ role in the homebuying process, some brokers are fighting back a...
CRETech March 20, 2019
The We Company's gambit to become a tech company rather than a real estate company comes with the same modern privacy concerns that dog the tech giants. Through its acquisitions of startups such as Teem and Euclid, WeWork's umbrella company has built a platform of workplace tracking technology that breaks down the movement of office workers to the most granular levels, Bloomberg reports. Thou...