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Zeus Living closes on $55M to offer flexible, furnished rentals as it expands beyond corporate housing

TechCrunch
10/16/2021

During the pandemic and shift to remote work that came with it, many people took advantage of their newfound flexibility to try living in different places. One startup poised to benefit from this is Zeus Living, which is focused on giving people “flexible living” options and has just raised $55 million in a round led by SIG. Initialized Capital, CEAS Investments, TI Platform, NFX, Opendoor’s Eric Wu and Miras also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $125…

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A GIS that doesn’t suck

AlphaMap
10/16/2021

AlphaMap is a super easy GIS tool that works similarly to Google Maps, so you’ll know how to use it instantly and without training. Whether it’s to dazzle a client, get a leg up on the competition, or deeply analyze a deal this will likely be the only tool you’ll need.

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How companies can keep the best parts of work-from-home culture — and avoid the pitfalls

Anchorage Daily News
10/14/2021

Employers thought employees would want to come back to their offices, where they had easy access to equipment, coworkers and managers. They were wrong. COVID-19 untethered us from our traditional workplaces, and many employees don’t want to return.

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At One Ventures’ new fund is going after startups out to ‘destroy the industries that are destroying the environment’

TechCrunch
10/14/2021

Planet-positive venture capital firm At One Ventures closed on its Fund I, aimed at injecting $150 million into startups that are innovating in the technical hardware space and specializing in environmentally positive technology. The Bay Area firm was started in 2019 by GoogleX co-founder Tom Chi, Laurie Menoud, who co-led venture capital for North American BASF, and Helen Lin, who spent time in Africa providing banking services to low-income populations….

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Regher Solar is ready to meet the new space industry’s demand for cheaper, better solar panels

TechCrunch
10/14/2021

The math is pretty basic. How many satellites are going to go up over the next decade? How many solar panels will they need? And how many are being manufactured that fit the bill? Turns out the answers are: a lot, a hell of a lot and not nearly enough. That’s where Regher Solar aims to make its mark, by bringing the cost of space-quality solar panels down by 90% while making an order of magnitude more of them.

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Geospatial analytics startup AiDash lands $27M

VentureBeat
10/14/2021

AiDash, a company using satellite imagery and AI to monitor infrastructure, today announced that it raised $27 million in series B funding led by G2 Venture Partners, with BGV, National Grid Partners, and additional strategic investors participating. The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to date to $33 million, which AiDash says will be put toward expanding its workforce and further developing its platform….

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UK start-up unveils autonomous mass transit system

Smart Cities World
10/14/2021

The technology deploys hundreds of lightweight, driverless, zero emission electric pods to collect passengers from anywhere in a city using ground-level tracks or existing road networks.

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Digitizing Development Trailer

CREtech
10/14/2021

Jesse Carrillo examines how Hines is digitizing internal and external operations, and what kind of payoff he’s seen as a result. Start your free 30-day trial to get full access videos like this.

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Dottid Integrates Dottid Leasing and Asset Management with ARGUS® Cloud Platform

Yahoo News
10/14/2021

Dottid, the commercial real estate (CRE) SaaS technology platform for asset management and leasing transactions, announced its full integration of their Dottid and Altus Group Limited’s ARGUS® Cloud platforms. The first-of-its-kind integration will be released by Q2 of 2022 and will fundamentally transform property valuation and digital asset management for the commercial real estate industry by providing on-demand real-time asset valuations. The platform integration will provide cloud-enable…

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CoStar Teams Up With REBNY To Take On Zillow With New Listing Platform

Bisnow
10/14/2021

The New York real estate industry’s powerful lobby group is joining forces with the dominant player in commercial real estate tech to create a new platform for residential brokers to market their listings. The platform is called Citysnap and will be available next year, the Real Estate Board of New York announced Wednesday. REBNY is partnering with Homesnap, which is owned by The CoStar Group, to create the venture….

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