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Smart Cities World
Quanergy Systems will showcase its suite of solutions that focus on areas such as retail flow management analytics, building occupancy management, and perimeter intrusion detection.
Bisnow
As office real estate faces daunting questions about long-term demand and growth, one sector has remained optimistic: flex spaces.
Medium
Dear EQ colleagues, After a remarkable 5 years, I will be leaving EQ. If these past two years have taught us anything, it’s that change is the only constant. We’ve learned to navigate the ups and downs of our market and world with grit and grace. I have no doubt that your pure talent and growth as leaders will continue to drive EQ forward.
Samsung News
Samsung SmartThings, the premier technology enabling connected living and driving the future of IoT, today announces an expansion of its SmartThings Energy service, defining the path for users to manage their energy usage and help them to save money. SmartThings Energy empowers users to optimize strategies for energy efficiency to lower their carbon footprint.
Axios
Walmart workers — wearing cameras for your security — will drop your groceries in your home whether you’re there or not, in a massive expansion of the retailer’s InHome service that will roll out this year, Jennifer A. Kingson writes.
Wall Street Journal
Few private citizens wield more power in America today than Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock Inc. BLK -0.36% In pushing companies to embrace climate-friendly policies, that has made him a lightning rod….
TechCrunch
The vast majority of e-commerce customers prefer to preview a product before making a purchase. That’s the reason why the likes of Amazon have historically struggled to move fashion and home decor items online. A San Francisco and Bengaluru-based startup is attempting to solve this problem and has just raised a new funding round to scale its operations.
Business Insider
Travis Kalanick’s ghost kitchen startup ended 2021 with significant fresh funding and a new chief financial officer.
Crunchbase News
With milestones like Procore’s IPO and despite low points like the collapse of construction unicorn Katerra, proptech had a banner year in 2021. All told, venture-backed companies in the real estate and property tech space raised nearly $21 billion, Crunchbase data shows.
APN News
Strata, India’s leading tech-enabled commercial real estate (CRE) investment platform, is the first proptech company in the country to have crossed a significant threshold of 500 crores in Assets Under Management (AUM). The company recently raised $6 million in a Series-A round co-led by Kotak Investment Advisors Limited, Gruhas Proptech (an exclusive fund by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha & Abhijeeth Pai of Puzzolana Group), and Sabre Investments.
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