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CRETech July 02, 2018
Bowery Farming Inc., an agriculture startup that’s less than two years old, got a big boost last month when it poached Brian Donato, a veteran of Amazon's automation efforts.
Donato will oversee Bowery's indoor farm in Kearny, New Jersey, a forgotten industrial enclave once famous for building warships. There, Bowery grows leafy greens in a computerized l...
CRETech July 02, 2018
Former Apple iTunes exec Chris Bell was recently named Matterport's new chief marketing officer, and discusses the company’s 3D data to be used in AI technology in this EXCLUSIVE. SAN FRANCISCO—3D technology is knocking at the door of the commercial real estate world and in many firms, it has been welcomed in. As part of that marketing and adoption effort, former
CRETech July 02, 2018
Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and promising to support a new wave of small business owners with the launch of a program that helps entrepreneurs start and run their own companies — delivering items purchased on Amazon.com in distinctive blue Prime-branded shirts and vans. It’s “the next big building block of our end-to-end s...
CRETech July 02, 2018
EQ Office President and CEO Lisa Picard recently discussed the news her company rebranded from Equity Office during a chat with Convene co-founder and CEO Ryan Simonetti recently. Along with the name change, EQ Office plans to partner with flex space operators in order to make more efficient use of its office footprint, beginning with a partnership with I...
CRETech July 02, 2018
Applications are now invited to join a group of 30 property professionals to help mould the design of the platform in return for exclusive early access. PropTech influencers James Dearsley and Eddie Holmes have raised £150,000 of pre-seed funding from a raft of significant strategic investors to build the first global PropTech platform. The new platform, called Unissu, provides the richest ...
CRETech July 02, 2018

If some financial institutions had used blockchains before the last recession, we may not have had one. After all, banks sometimes didn’t know which company’s books held bad mortgages, and a blockchain is essentially a single time-stamped ledger transparent to all its users.

Since that time, compani...

CRETech July 02, 2018
And there we have it: Bird, one of the emerging massively hyped Scooter startups, has roped in its next pile of funding by picking up another $300 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital. The company announced the long-anticipated roun...
CRETech June 29, 2018

Tenant Experience Platform Launches with National Development, Boylston Properties, and The Bulfinch Companies, Inc. at Commercial Real Estate Properties Outside of Boston

Thursday, June 28, 2018 -- Boston, MA -- HqO, a tenant experience platform for commercial real estate, today announ...
CRETech June 29, 2018
When Icelandic Provisions considers new flavors, WeWork members often get to try them out first. The key lime flavor was a hit among members and eventually made it onto supermarket shelves. But rhubarb didn’t make the grade. “That feedback actually really helps us in terms of product development,” says Molly Peterson, the company’s dire...