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SoftBank Group has made several big name investments across insurtech and real estate, including deals to WeWork, OYO Rooms, PolicyBazaar, and Lemonade.
SoftBank wants its portfolio companies to get along.
The Japanese conglomerate’s recent investments in insurtech and real estate tech point to a strategy of promoting collaboration among its portfolio companies.
With over five million apps available across the world, just about every fathomable function of daily life can be aided by a finger-tap on a smartphone.
People spend at least two hours a day using apps...
BOSTON—Verizon, which announced in August plans to lease more than 450,000 square feet of space at The Hub on Causeway, says it will spend approximately $600 million to expand its operations here and transform Boston into a digital city of the future.
Being a New York City rental broker has always been a tough gig. But the job is getting even harder.
It’s now been exactly one year since StreetEasy began charging
- DWS invests in Skyline AI as a minority shareholder
- The strategic partnership is designed to allow DWS to build on its extensive real estate investment management experience using Skyline AI’s technology
- Part of DWS strategy to invest in and expand product capabilities
If you think of blockchain, you might think of data, secrecy or decentralization. But its primary purpose was to act as a digital time stamp and was first used in 1992 by Haber and Stornetta to create a verifiable audit tra...
Billions of dollars have been poured into PropTech startups in recent years, and it has not just been traditional venture capital firms funding the booming sector. Legacy commercial real estate firms that spent decades focusing their investment on physical properties have begun launching venture funds to invest in technology companies, aiming to solve problems in their portfolio and bring in big...
CBRE has brought on a former WeWork executive to work at its new coworking offering.
Robert Cartwright joined the new company, called Hana, in September as chief operating officer, The Real Deal reports. He was previously WeWork’s senior vice president of global operations, a position he left in August, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Technology is bringing commercial real estate out of the stone age, making it more efficient for brokers to find and conduct deals, for landlords to manage properties and for investors to raise funds to bet on assets.
One area of the industry that remains largely untouched by tech is the real estate appraisals and valuation business.