Airbnb’s Remote-Work Makeover Is Really About Competing for Talent

Thousands of Airbnb Inc. employees will start the week with an option they will now have to consider every single day: Go into the office or work from home?

28 transportation innovations that could change the ways we get around

See the full list of honorees of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards in the transportation category.

What matters in the future of Real Estate?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, …” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two cities, 1859. With perhaps the most famous opening words in English Literature Charles Dickens captures the feeling of living in an age of great change. In his case he was writing about the French Revolution but using it as an analogy for his own time.

Canadian PropTech Senara Secures Pre-Seed Funding to Launch Innovative Pre-construction Lead-to-close System that Empowers Developers and their Listing Brokerages to Sell Smarter and Faster, while Spending Less

System already in beta and driving data-driven results with key project across North American market.

The BFD

The Home Depot (HYSE: HD) has launched a $150 million venture capital arm, focused on customer experience and home improvement startups.

‘Bored Ape’ Unicorn Raises $320M By Selling Virtual Land In Its Metaverse

The startup behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs has raised as much as $320 million in cryptocurrency by selling 55,000 plots of virtual land in its metaverse. The virtual real estate buying frenzy over the weekend reportedly so intense that it crashed the Ethereum network and sent fees on the blockchain system soaring.

Point closes on $115M to give homeowners a way to cash out on equity in their homes

Historically, homeowners could only tap into the equity of their homes by taking out a home equity loan or refinancing. But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes.  

Technology will help solve many of the challenges that are confronting the real estate industry – Michael Beckerman, CEO CREtech and CREtech Climate

Michael Beckerman is the CEO of CREtech, the largest global consulting, media, and conference company devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector.

Clean Cement Startup Brimstone Energy Raises $55M Pre-Revenue

Brimstone Energy is taking on a challenge of biblical proportions: producing mass-market, zero-carbon Portland cement, a key building material. If it succeeds, the implications for the real estate and construction industries are so enormous that investors have poured $55 million into the startup before it has made a single dollar.

Technology will help solve many of the challenges that are confronting the real estate industry – Michael Beckerman, CEO CREtech and CREtech Climate

Michael Beckerman is the CEO of CREtech, the largest global consulting, media, and conference company devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector.