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CRETech June 25, 2018
The commercial real estate data sector is rapidly and fundamentally changing before our eyes. Startups like VTS, Reonomy and CompStak are launching new services, charting nationwide expansions, landing venture capital investments and securing institutional partnerships. As they widen their product offerings and user bases, these companies are beginning to resemble young versions of the indust...
CRETech June 25, 2018

Urban Innovation Fund, an early advocate of navigating bureaucracy, closes a $22.5 million fund

CRETech June 25, 2018
For every real estate deal Knotel does, company founder Amol Sarva estimates 2% of its value is taken up just verifying information. “Let’s just say we are looking at a property in [the] Financial District,” said Sarva, whose flexible office company now has around 50 locations in New York City, with more to be announced. “[We want to figure out] — ‘how big is it, what’s the flo...
CRETech June 25, 2018
Meet CommonSense Robotics, an Israel-based startup focused on optimizing e-commerce warehouses with cute little robots and a comprehensive software solution. We talked with the startup last month and could even order a few items in its test fulfillment center. The most visual part of the system is the tiny little robots that move on the ground. But thi...
CRETech June 22, 2018
Blackstone-owned EQ Office, a U.S. office portfolio company formerly named Equity Office, has undergone a major rebrand that includes plans to reposition several properties to improve the employee experience, as well as new partnerships with flex space operators to make more efficient use of its footprint. Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/office/blackstones-equity-office-re...
CRETech June 22, 2018
Workframe, a collaboration and communication platform purpose-built for commercial real estate (CRE) professionals, raised $9.5 million in Series B funding led by CRE advisory firm Newmark Knight Frank (NKF), which will be rolling out Workframe across its service lines nationwide. The financing also included participation from the venture capital arm of firm MetaProp, as well as Venrock, a vent...
CRETech June 22, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2018 --  Saltmine today announced that it is looking to hire two critical new senior sales roles. The first role - VP of Customer Success - will lead all customer-facing teams and will be based out of San Francisco.  The second role is an East Coast Sales Director based out of NYC. Saltmine is a San Francisco-based startup reimagining and rebuilding the entire process ...
CRETech June 22, 2018
Property management startup and in-home assistant Hello Alfred is taking over Bjarke Ingels Group’s former space at RXR Realty’s 61 Broadway in downtown Manhattan. Hello Alfred moved into its new digs from
CRETech June 22, 2018
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Data Corporation (IDC) t...
CRETech June 22, 2018
Co-working companies are making a killing, but that’s of little solace to the commercial landlords who own the space. In fact, the CEO of one shared workspace company thinks landlords should enter joint ventures or profit-sharing agreements with co-working firms, scrapping the traditional loan in the process. At a panel discussion hosted by leasing management company VTS, Industrious CEO J...