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Amol Sarva’s Knotel had an eventful year.
In February 2017, the flexible office space provider announced a $25 million Series A fundraising round. Since then, the company has been opening new locations at a rapid clip, expanding ...
Robots may be working behind the scenes building our cars and working in warehouses, but these automated workers are becoming a bigger part of everyday life for humans, especially in commercial real estate. Automation and robots are expected to claim 800 million jobs by 2030, and some robots are even starting to look like humans. Hanson Robotics created Sophia, a human-like robot that can make 6...
Rapid growth of proptech exemplifies the happy marriage between technology and established New York industries
With a friendly in person and then email invitation from Maria Seredina M&A and Partnerships at Zillow Group and Patrick Janson CEO ProDeal360 I attended the NYC Real Estate Tech Startups
NEW YORK — As New York City waits to hear whether it's been chosen as the site for Amazon's second headquarters, recent moves by another tech giant, Google, to expand its footprint in the city are helping to legitimize New York's claim to be Silicon Valley East.
Google is reportedly close to a reaching a $2.4 billion deal to add a landmark Meatpacking District building to its already substant...
Venture capitalists invested $192M in real estate tech startups in February, down 74% from $751M in January, according to a report from RETech — an affiliate of investment sales market data provider Falkon Inc.
Among the largest recipients of capital in the U.S. last month was New York-based national commercial real estate data provider Reonomy. Co-founded by CEO Richard Sarkis, the startup...
Google is preparing to build a village in its own backyard. The tech giant is asking a handful of prefab housing startups for proposals to build 10,000 apartments for employees as part of its huge Mountain View Googleplex HQ, according to The Information. The tech giant has solicited at least eight firms and has met with representatives from Katerra, a Menlo Park-based technology company that hand...
Merger mania in the roommate matching economy continues. Roomi, an online room rental platform, said Thursday that it is acquiring its rival Symbi. Symbi is the third competitor Roomi is acquiring, following deals with Room.me in 2016 and The Room Ring last year. Founded by Ajay Yadav in 2015, Roomi recently raised $11 million in a Series A round. Roomi’s mobile app is a little like Tinder for r...
Owners of some of the city’s largest apartment buildings are signing up for services that allow tenants to pay smaller, nonrefundable fees rather than plunking down hefty security deposits.
How to Rent a New York City Apartment Without Paying a Deposit
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "E-Commerce Briefing" subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. AiFi, a computer vision startup, has developed its own technology to enable in-store shopping without the need for physical checkout, much like the Amazon Go store, according to a press release. Cashierless store concepts ...