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CRETECH
New York, NY (February 6th, 2020) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, announced today that the 2019 CREtech End-Year Report is now available for free download. The Annual Report is considered the leading provider of research, insights and data for the commercial real estate tech sector.
VENTUREBEAT
During GM’s investor day conference in New York this morning, Dan Ammann, CEO of the automaker’s self-driving subsidiary Cruise Automation, gave a glimpse at the progress it’s made toward a fully self-driving vehicle fleet. He said that Cruise’s engineers, of which there are now 1,800 (up from 1,000 in March 2019), have over the past four years helped improve autonomous driving performance by a factor of well over 1,000. Concretely, they’ve reduced the amount of time between major software updat…
CRETECH
DRIVING HEADLINES This week witnessed a high volume of large deals across a variety of countries, where deals in North America dominated the headlines. The majority of this week’s capital went to companies that transform the real estate fintech, hospitality, home insurance and retail industries. Investments also focused on real estate platforms that leverage AI to resolve real estate data, and online marketplaces that ensure a seamless buying and selling experience. The largest round went to…
TECHCRUNCH
Amidst the staggering rise of on-demand delivery services, the convenience store has been left relatively untouched. Until very recently. Foxtrot, founded in 2013, is looking to reimagine the corner convenience store, offering customers the option to buy in-store or order online for delivery. The company today announced the close of a $17 million growth round, co-led by Imaginary and Wittington Ventures, with investment from previous backers Fifth Wall, Lerer Hippeau, Revolution’s Rise of the R…
YAHOO FINANCE
Acumen Research and Consulting, a global provider of market research studies, in a recently published report titled “Smart Cities Market (Application: Governance, Building, Environmental Solution, Utilities, Transportation, and Healthcare) – Global Industry Analysis, Market Size, Opportunities and Forecast, 2019 – 2026”….
BISNOW
The commercial real estate data network Moody’s Analytics launched one year ago has not grown its user base as quickly as the company had hoped, an executive leading the effort tells Bisnow, but experts say it still has the potential to take on industry leader CoStar.
CRETECH
CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, announced today that the 2019 CREtech End-Year Report is now available for free download. The Annual Report is considered the leading provider of research, insights and data for the commercial real estate tech sector. Along with a detailed overview of the PropTech industry, the Report analyzes the pace of venture capital investing in 2019, which has skyrocketed to record setting h…
FORBES
In my last column, I asked seven leading proptech VCs to share their predictions for the sector in 2020 and beyond. Amongst other things, they expect a maturing market to produce more integrated solutions: we will see an increase in end-to-end offerings coming to market as the single-product, siloed solutions taper off.
CRETECH
This week witnessed a high volume of large deals across a variety of countries, where deals in North America dominated the headlines. The majority of this week’s capital went to companies that transform the real estate fintech, hospitality, home insurance and retail industries. Investments also focused on real estate platforms that leverage AI to resolve real estate data, and online marketplaces that ensure a seamless buying and selling experience.
THEREALDEAL
Zillow Group’s bid to get broker licenses from coast to coast is no surprise to New York City brokerage chiefs, but they disagree on the significance. “They’re inching their way into becoming a brokerage. There’s no secret here,” said Eddie Shapiro, CEO of Nest Seekers International. “We’d be naive to think that it’s anything different.”
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