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  • Funnel Taps PropTech Veteran Stephany Mesa as Chief of Staff to Invigorate Workplace and Special Projects as Company Scales for Growth

    Businesswire

    Funnel Leasing, the renter-centric leasing platform, today announced the hiring of Stephany Mesa, a proptech veteran and product specialist, as Chief of Staff. With her 11 years of experience in multifamily and real estate, Mesa will lead Funnel’s people ops, including staff and culture, a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) group, the Women of Funnel Group, scaling the non-profit 501c(3) H.O.M.E. initiative and will drive strategic alignment within the leadership team to reflect Funnel’s …

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  • App Deal Highlights a Push to Lure Workers Back Into Offices

    Wall Street Journal

    Real-estate software and data firm VTS has agreed to acquire an app company that aims to simplify office life as more workers are heading back to their desks. VTS, whose primary business is providing online tools to landlords for managing leases and tenant data, said it is buying Toronto-based Lane Technologies Inc. The price is about $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter, making it one of the largest proptech acquisitions ever.

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  • Richard Croft, Executive Chairman, M7 Real Estate, Announced as Keynote Speaker at CREtech London

    CREtech

    New York (September 20, 2021) CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Richard Croft, Executive Chairman, M7 Real Estate, a leading pan-European real estate investment management company, will deliver a keynote speech at CREtech London this October 27-28. Formerly known as FUTURE PropTech until acquired by CREtech in 2019, CREtech London is Europe’s most important PropTech networking event. M7 Real Est…

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  • HqO Acquires Leading European Tenant Experience Platform Office App

    HqO

    HqO, the end-to-end tenant experience platform for commercial real estate properties, today announces that it has acquired Office App, a leading European tenant and employee engagement platform. The new combined entity is valued at over half a billion dollars, making it one of the most significant proptech companies in the world. This valuation reflects the growing importance of workplace experience solutions in the commercial real estate market. The acquisition brings together solu…

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  • The smart city comes of age

    Axios

    Better sensors, more intelligent AI, and the coming wave of 5G wireless could finally fulfill the promise of the smart city. Why it matters: How we organize, run and power our cities will be increasingly important in the years ahead, as urbanization expands and the damaging effects of climate change compound. A smarter city can be a more sustainable and livable one, but connecting where we live carries privacy threats as well as the risks of more disruptive cyberattacks. By the number…

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  • Mary Hogan Preusse Joins Fifth Wall as Senior Advisor

    PR Newswire

    Today, Fifth Wall, the largest venture capital firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry, announced that real estate industry veteran Mary Hogan Preusse has joined the firm as its first Senior Advisor focused on strengthening Fifth Wall’s relationships with its 70+ corporate real estate investors and with the broader real estate industry.

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  • Meet Me in My Office, in Men’s Underwear on 5

    New York Times

    For 10 years beginning in 1945, the architect George Nelson served as the design director at Herman Miller, the iconic furniture producer, where he came to believe that the modern office should resemble “a daytime living room.’’ The geography of the conventional white-collar workplace bred stress and distraction, the thinking went, and as a result, hindered creativity and collaboration. It would take decades and significant advances in technology for corporate ideology to catch up with Nelson’s …

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  • Inside Grosvenor’s ‘why wait’ net zero strategy

    Placetech

    Grosvenor Britain & Ireland plans to reach net zero carbon by 2025 – five years ahead of its original target – though it will rely on immediate offsetting to do so, the company has announced. The developer said it is taking a “why wait” stance on offsets instead of waiting until 2030 to mitigate its emissions. GBI argued that doing so would have a positive long-term effect as long as it also met its reduction targets.

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  • CarbonBuilt Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding for Its Eco-Friendly Concrete

    Los Angeles Business Journal

    Westwood-based startup CarbonBuilt Inc. announced Oct. 6 that it has raised $10 million in Series A financing to further develop and begin to market its technology that reduces carbon dioxide emissions by injecting the gas into concrete.

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  • Momentum Builds for ULI Greenprint Net Zero Carbon Operations Goal as Eight New Real Estate Companies Representing Over 2,400 Buildings Publicly Align

    Urban Land Institute

    The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance revealed today that eight new real estate leaders, representing over 2,400 buildings, have announced plans to reduce the operational carbon emissions of their collective portfolio under operational control to net zero by the year 2050. This is on top of the seventeen ULI Greenprint members that already publicly aligned with this goal so far.

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