Remember the off-site meeting? For some companies, those traditional company gatherings at hotels, spas and other exotic locations are pointing the way to a new, innovative model for getting employees back to working in person.
Silverstein Introduces Employee Badge In Apple Wallet For Its WTC Employees and Tenants
Silverstein Properties
Silverstein Properties, a leading real estate development, investment and management firm, today introduced contactless access to its 7 World Trade Center office building through employee badge in Apple Wallet.
Silverstein’s employee badges in Apple Wallet allow users to easily access its office buildings, tenant floors, fitness centers and amenity spaces using their iPhone or Apple Watch. Starting at 7 World Trade Center, the company plans to offer the service to its 50,000 office customers …
What Placer.ai intends to do with its $100 million cash infusion
CSA
At ICSC’s biggest show of 2021 in Las Vegas last December, one booth, crammed to its borders with visitors, shone out as the rock star of the event. That was the booth of Placer.ai.
Better.com loses more top execs in wake of Vishal Garg’s return as CEO
TechCrunch
The exodus of executives at Better.com continues.
TechCrunch has learned that Sarah Pierce, who served as executive vice president of customer experience, sales and operations, and Emanuel Santa-Donato, who was senior vice president of capital markets and growth, are no longer with the digital mortgage company….
Selina raises $150M to dish out flexible loans that leverage home equity
TechCrunch
For many of us, our home is by far our biggest asset, and in the world of fintech, that’s led to a logical extension: when you need money, borrow against that biggest asset. Today, a London fintech called Selina, which provides flexible capital to consumers on five-year terms against up to 85% of the value of their homes — so-called Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) loans — is announcing $150 million in funding on the heels of making $100 million in loans out to homeowners….
Private Funding For Crypto Hits Peak As Public Markets Sour
Crunchbase News
For crypto startups and unicorns, 2021 was an exceptionally good year. But for public companies tied to the crypto space, 2022 has been off to a bad start.
On Friday, the price of Bitcoin was hovering around $37,000, down around 45 percent from its November high. The S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market Index was down a similar amount. And the bulk of shares from a sample of public companies in the crypto space, most previously venture-backed, all were down over 50 percent from peaks h…
Why We’re Doubling Down on VendorPM, a Digital Marketplace for Vendors and Property Managers
Medium
VendorPM, a marketplace for property managers to manage, source and procure service vendors, just announced their $6 million seed round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, joined by Forum Ventures and other leading prop tech investors….
TruAmerica Launches Build-For-Rent Development Division
Multifamily Executive
Los Angeles-based TruAmerica Multifamily is the latest firm venturing into the hot single-family build-for-rent space. The vertically integrated multifamily investment company has launched a build-for-rent development arm to build townhome and single-family rental communities in suburban markets that are synergistic with its existing multifamily platform. Mitch Rotta, a build-for-rent veteran, has been tapped as senior managing director to lead the new division.
WATCH NOW! A Special Announcement From Second Century Ventures and CREtech
CREtech
Second Century Ventures, one of the most respected and active early stage PropTech investors in the industry and CREtech, the largest global content and conference company devoted to innovation in the Built World, unveil an extraordinary partnership that seeks to explore and raise awareness of technology’s role in solving affordable housing challenges.
First Ever Co-Living REIT Could Rise From Collapse Of The Collective
Bisnow
The lender that took over several of the assets of collapsed co-living firm The Collective is planning to spin the portfolio out into a new £300M REIT.
Fund manager Gravis Capital said it intends to float a new company, GCP Co-Living REIT, on the London Stock Exchange and sell £300M of new shares in the REIT.
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