The good and the bad in media these days

Flyer: Bringing Outdated Property Fliers Online

Flyer is out to reinvigorate a tried-and-true real estate marketing tactic (property fliers) by bringing them online and outfitting them with all the bells and whistles. Founded by Isaac Herrara, who drew on his experience working for CBRE and Grubb & Ellis, and backed by 500 Startup Partners, Dave McClure and Christine Tsai, Flyer has all the momentum behind it to make its mark in this new age of real estate marketing. Here’s Herrera explaining the site in his own words… https://www.youtub…

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Apto: Multi-Purpose Real Estate CRM System

Apto is a cloud-based, multi-purpose real estate CRM, designed with real estate professionals from all areas of the industry in mind. Whether your area of expertise is in tenant representation, investment sales, or if you’re a member of a general brokerage, Apto CRM provides a range of services that make it flexible enough to meet the needs of all of the above. Apto is a very well-rounded CRM, with a laundry list of features. It allows users to track the ownership of different properties, as we…

Real Estate Content Hub The News Funnel Joins theBrokerList as Marketplace Partner

CHICAGO, August 28, 2014 — The News Funnel, the largest real estate news aggregator and content platform in the real estate industry, has joined Chicago-based theBrokerList  as its newest Marketplace partner. The News Funnel boasts more than 10,000 free subscribers, and more than 2,000 companies also use it to create and share their own content for free on Company News Channels. “Our subscribers come from all aspects of real estate—brokers, property owners, marketing and more,” says The News Fun…

Exclusive Q&A: Mark Cuban Talks About Motionloft and the Intersect of CRE and Tech

In the past, we’ve described Motionloft as an “incredible example of the huge potential data visualization has for commercial real estate.” For this exclusive Q&A, we were lucky enough to be joined by Mark Cuban, an investor in Motionloft, who provided us not only with an update on what’s going on with the company, but his views on the real estate technology sector overall. CRE App Review: Can you give us a quick overview of Motionloft?  Mark: We are Google Analytics for the real world. The…

Hightower Raises $6.5 Million From Bessemer Venture Partners and Thrive Capital

The online platform for commercial real estate owners and brokers will use the Series A investment to fuel international growth, hire top talent and speed up product development. NEW YORK, NY, August 20th 2014– Hightower, an online platform for the commercial leasing industry, today announced a $6.5 million Series A round of financing led by existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Thrive Capital. Previous investors, including RRE Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, David Tisch, Lee Linden and…

A CRE App Review EXCLUSIVE: Hightower Scores Another Huge Funding Round!

We’ve profiled Hightower in the past, but that doesn’t mean they’re old news. Far from it, following their latest announcement of a $6.5 million dollar round of Series A funding, spearheaded by two VC powerhouses (Bessemer Venture Partners and Thrive Capital). Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and Hightower is scorching. What’s all the fuss about? Let’s start at the beginning… Hightower Graph Hightower is a mobile and web-based app that allows users to track their deal pipelines in real time. …

Stop compiling lease analysis reports; Start using Ten Eight

We’ve all heard the saying “time is money,” but how much is your time really worth if you’re not spending it as efficiently as possible? Ten Eight is a mobile web app (available from iPhone, iPad, Android and Android Tablet) designed to help streamline the office leasing process from start to finish. Ten Eight allows for the creation of virtual, interactive tourbooks of buildings. It uses a 10-point rating system based off of eight different sets of criteria, like the building’s location and uni…

THE GREAT RECESSION: CATALYST FOR CRE INNOVATION?

In keeping with the theme of our blog, I interviewed other companies in the CRE space to ask them about innovating in an inefficient industry. I spoke with Ryan Masiello of View the Space and Tanner McGraw of Apto, and was left with two points addressing why some CRE tech companies are progressing in the commercial real estate space: 1. CRE professionals faced and continue to face real challenges that could be solved by technology. 2. The real estate crisis allowed for CRE professionals to reeva…