Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Bisnow
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….
CREtech
New York (October 15, 2021) — CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, returned to New York on October 13th and 14th for the most influential commercial real estate tech conference of 2021. The two-day conference was held at Pier 36 and featured keynote presentations, panel discussions and demos from today’s leaders in real estate, technology, venture capital and finance, the event was a rousing success. Over 18…
SwiftConnect
SwiftConnect, a software platform provider which enables flexible work by connecting the right people to the right space at the right time today announced $9 million in funding. The round was co-led by Navitas Capital and JLL Spark Global Ventures, the strategic investment arm of commercial real estate services firm JLL, with participation from World Trade Ventures, Concrete Ventures, Silvertech Ventures, 1414 Ventures, and NetOne, among others. This investment will fuel the company’s hirin…
dbusiness
InvestNext, a Detroit-based real estate investment technology company, has closed a $4.3 million seed round. The funding round was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners in Chicago and joined by Detroit Venture Partners, Whitecap Venture Partners, Grand Ventures, and ID Ventures.
Crunchbase News
Palo Alto, California-based Plume closed a $300 million round of funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2—pushing the company’s valuation to $2.6 billion.
GlobeSt
Moody’s Analytics will now make climate risk scores available on its analytics platform, in a move aimed at helping industry pros better quantify the exposure of commercial properties to the physical impacts of climate change. The firm’s climate risk scoring methodology analyzes both current and future risk and follows the firm’s recent expansion into sub-sovereign climate risk scores introduced by Moody’s ESG Solutions.
TechCrunch
Dexterity emerged from stealth in July of last year, touting a $56.2 million Series A. The Bay Area-based robotics startup was riding high on increased demand for automation at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than a year later, the pandemic is, sadly, still here, and investor interest in the company has maintained along with it.
Bisnow
Adding to employer concerns of the so-called great resignation and anxiety over retention, a new study shows workers aren’t as worried about finding a new job before ditching the current one.
The Real Deal
JBG Smith rang in a seemingly major accomplishment last month: carbon neutrality across a 60-plus building portfolio — and nearly a decade ahead of schedule.
CREtech
JLL’s Tony Josipovic sheds light on JLL’s future of work model including what’s next in the workforce, workplace and portfolio. Start your free 30-day trial to get full access videos like this.
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