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  • Speaker Spotlight: Travis Putnam, Managing Partner, Navitas Capital

    CREtech

    Attending the CREtech New York Conference on October 16-17, 2019? Don’t miss Travis Putnam, Managing Partner at Navitas Capital moderate the session, “How AI is Creating Property Value Today,” on the Innovation Stage at CREtech New York. Travis, alongside 3 portfolio companies: Matterport, Gridium and MeetElise will share the experiences of utilizing AI to create value for customers. Our team at CREtech recently caught up with Putnam to learn more about his role and his vision for the comm…

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  • Five Tips from a Strategic VC to Accelerate Growth of your Proptech Startup

    ANDREA JANG – JLL SPARK

    Recently, I was asked to share my thoughts with Forbes on how proptech startups should approach strategic growth within the commercial real estate industry. While we covered a lot of ground, there are a few things I wanted to add here. As Growth Lead for the Americas at JLL Spark, I guide proptech startup founders on strategy and sales growth and help teams navigate the myriad of decision makers within the commercial real estate industry. I also educate commercial real estate leaders about tech…

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  • Online brokerage Dwellowner looks to raise $7M via token offering

    THE REAL DEAL

    Four months after leaving Purplebricks, the embattled firm’s top U.S. executive is looking to raise money for a new discount brokerage. Eric Eckardt is seeking $7 million to $10 million to help grow Dwellowner, a cloud-based brokerage, via a security token offering (STO) in which investors are given cryptocurrency representing their investment. An unnamed investor has already committed to chipping in $3 million, Eckardt said in a video posted to Dwellowner’s website on Wednesday.

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  • VTS Named #1 in Data for the Commercial Real Estate Industry at the CREtech Real Estate Awards

    BUSINESS WIRE

    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VTS, New York City-based proptech unicorn and inventor of commercial real estate (CRE) leasing and asset management software, is pleased to announce it is a sixth annual Real Estate Tech Awards (#RETAS) winner in data, presented by CREtech, the largest event, data and content platform in CRE tech. “We are incredibly honored to have been recognized by CREtech as #1 in data for commercial real estate,” said Nick Romito, CEO and co-founder of VTS. “VTS has a long histo…

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  • Alphabet and other giants are betting that the future of real estate is robotic

    FAST COMPANY

    With $20 million of new funding from Sidewalk Labs and Ikea umbrella company Ingka Group, the MIT robotics spin-off Ori is moving forward with its ambitious plans to revolutionize architecture. It seemed like an impossible idea. In 2014, an MIT project called CityHome proposed a sleek robotic armoire that would live inside your apartment, amplifying a tiny footprint with Jetsonian features like a kitchen and bed that could slide out from seemingly nowhere. It was neat, sure, but exper…

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  • WeWork Targets $20 Billion to $30 Billion IPO Value

    BLOOMBERG

    WeWork’s initial public offering won’t be quite the celebration the office-rental unicorn once foresaw. The New York-based startup is considering seeking a valuation of about $20 billion to $30 billion in the IPO, people with knowledge of the matter said. The range could end up closer to $20 billion, said one of the people, which would be less than half the valuation it secured from its biggest backer just a few months ago….

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  • Whatever Happened To WeLive?

    BISNOW

    Back in 2015, Adam Neumann and WeWork had characteristically big dreams for its co-living division, WeLive. According to an investor presentation published by Buzzfeed, WeWork estimated that WeLive would grow from the two locations opening that year to a business that could cater for more than 34,000 residents across a 10.4M SF portfolio with 91% occupancy by 2018.

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  • Reefknot Investments launches $50 million fund to invest in logistics and supply chain startups

    TECHCRUNCH

    Reefknot Investments, a joint venture between Temasek, Singapore’s sovereign fund, and global logistics company Kuehne + Nagel, announced today the launch of a $50 million fund for logistics and supply chain startups. The firm is based in Singapore, but will look for companies around the world that are raising their Series A or B rounds.

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  • Top 5 Trends in PropTech by Andrea Jang (JLL Spark)

    CREtech

    Top 5 Trends in PropTech in 2019. Andrea Jang, Growth Lead at JLL Spark, a strategic global venture fund investing in startups transforming commercial real estate through technology, shares her top five trends in the global real estate tech (PropTech) market. Meet Andrea Jang at the CREtech New York Conference on October 16-17, 2019 – The biggest two day conference in real estate tech. Register at cretech.com

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  • Knotel Announces New Partnership for London and Manchester Offices

    DAILY DIGEST

    New York-based flexible office operator Knotel has announced a partnership with London-based online office platform Hubble.  The partnership will offer clients tailored on-demand managed offices on Hubble in London and Manchester for the first time. “The Knotel service is proving attractive to our customers as it provides a one-stop-shop fit out and service solution where companies can tailor their office space without excessive upfront costs and with in-built flexibility for the future,” …

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