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  • Proptech Startup Sees Big Spike In Interest As Americans Turn To Their Homes For Cash

    Bisnow

    Proptech startup Noah has seen a massive spike in homeowners contacting it about releasing equity from their homes as a result of the impact of the novel coronavirus. The company, which this week rebranded from previous name Patch Homes, said that although it is too early to provide an exact figure, it has seen an increase of around 600% in the past week of homeowners seeking an estimate of their home value.

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  • Pi Labs launches its first remote business accelerator cohort

    Property Week

    The fund is hosting five startups in its intensive 15-week pre-seed programme, which has been running since 2015. The venture capital fund gives the firms funding and connects them with experts, strategic advice, and prepares them to scale their business.

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  • Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech

    TechCrunch

    Several months ago, we surveyed more than 20 leading real estate VCs to learn about what was exciting them most in the real estate tech sector and hear their opinions on proptech trends like co-working, flexible office space and remote office space.

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  • Market players won’t find buyers on the secondary market — yet

    TechCrunch

    Seasoned secondary players were expecting it. As the markets began to plummet in recent weeks, shareholders who’d turned down earlier offers to buy this or that holding were suddenly curious to see if those interested parties might still be interested. Alas, it was too late. The market was moving too fast. It still is.

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  • CRETech/PropTech 2.0

    ash1

    In my lifetime (55 years), I have never seen anything like these times we are living in today. And trust me, I have seen A LOT! The fear, both real and imagined, the threat to people’s lives especially those most vulnerable, the social upheaval, the almost certain devastating economic toll has collectively simply taken my breath away. Thankfully, I have a wonderful and healthy family to be grateful for and my own meditation practice to rely on, which has been tested lately like never before :). …

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  • Helsinki takes open data approach to carbon

    PLACETECH

    The capital of Finland has opened the energy consumption data of its public buildings to application developers to help it become a carbon-neutral city. How much electricity and district heat were consumed in a local school or library yesterday? The new Nuuka Open API, now open for testing, can be used to retrieve hourly electricity and heat consumption data for approximately 1,700 service buildings in the city of Helsinki. The ambition is to accelerate Helsinki’s journey towards becoming a carb…

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  • Facing disaster, corporate venture capital to undergo key stress test

    PITCHBOOK

    After driving much of the venture capital market’s hyper-growth in recent years, corporations are poised for a decisive stress test of their zeal for funding startups. Heading into 2020, it wasn’t unreasonable to forecast another record year for VC financing involving corporate venture capital arms, such as those of titans Intel, Salesforce and Google. But that was before the coronavirus brought the world economy to a standstill.

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  • Coronavirus Shows Cash Is King, Even for Biggest U.S. Companies

    WSJ

    The fast-spreading coronavirus has prompted even the biggest U.S. companies to cut their spending and bolster their balance sheets, proving once again how cash is king, especially in times of crisis. After a decadelong U.S. economic expansion, not every company has entered this crisis with the same cash cushion.

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  • TripActions, Zeus Living Laying Off Employees Due To COVID-19 Slowdown

    CRUNCHBASE

    Corporate travel startup TripActions Inc. is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to The Wall Street Journal, the layoffs represent roughly one-fifth to one-quarter of the startup’s employees. The publication cited an unnamed person familiar with the matter.

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  • How 5G-powered robots are helping China fight coronavirus

    SMARTCITIESWORLD

    5G patrol robots are being deployed to monitor mask-wearing and body temperatures in public places while an intelligent robot developed in a week will be used to disinfect hospitals. …

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