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GLOBEST
Yardi Rent Café’s customer relationship management software is has seen a major increase in product adoption. The software now has 3.1 million users, an increase of 34%. The software has substantial benefits. It helps to capture leads, automates follow-ups and centralizes communications to increase conversions and retention for property management companies.
THE TELEGRAPH
It is not every day that a corporate document filed with financial regulators begins with a sentence like: “We dedicate this to the energy of we – greater than any one of us but inside each of us.” Still, that is how WeWork, the rapidly growing office rental company with hundreds of elegantly-decorated beachheads in major cities around the world, began the official prospectus for its hotly-anticipated public float later this year….
ATYPICAL
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PR WEB
Inc. magazine ranked STRATIS IoT on the 2019 Inc 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. STRATIS ranked 740th in its second consecutive year, moving up 148 spots. Only one in four companies ever achieves multiple years on the Inc 5000. In the past year, STRATIS has seen unprecedented growth with a 30% increase in units installed, currently totaling nearly 325,000 units in the U.S. and 18,000 internationally. With a new international expansion s…
NEW YORK BUSINESS JOURNAL
Some startups that once set up shop in a WeWork co-working office eventually grow large enough where they need bigger office space. That’s where SquareFoot comes in. The service acts as a hub for vacant offices. Backed by Rosecliff Ventures, RRE Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners and Armory Square Ventures, Squarefoot aggregates all open office spaces into one platform to help early-stage companies find the best option.
TECHCRUNCH
Flatfair, a London-based fintech that lets landlords offer “deposit-free” renting to tenants, has raised $11 million in funding. The Series A round is led by Index Ventures, with participation from Revolt Ventures, Adevinta, Greg Marsh (founder of Onefinestay), Jeremy Helbsy (former Savills CEO) and Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise co-founder). With the new capital, Flatfair says it plans to hire a “significant” number of product engineers, data scientists and business development specialists….
AXIOS
Monitoring social media feeds is a common practice for major brands and companies trying to keep up with consumer sentiment and tastes. City governments are now tapping into those data streams to keep tabs on residents’ chatter and complaints about what’s happening around town. Why it matters: Twitter and Facebook posts, when combined with other city tip lines and data collection tools, can be a gold mine of information about what citizens really think….
TECHCRUNCH
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today is our promised Equity Shot (a short-form, single-topic episode) on the WeWork S-1. You can read Kate’s notes here, or Alex’s here as a place to start. Given that we didn’t know when the WeWork S-1 filing was going to make itself known, we put together this episode from TechCrunch’s SF HQ, Alex’s home office and Kate inside a New York Blue Bottle Coffee. W…
WASHINGTON BUSIINESS JOURNAL
Every once in a while, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) lets the world know what it might be planning — not in a public announcement but in a patent filing. The company has filed thousands of applications since its founding, and while many don’t go anywhere, some go on to disrupt long-existing industries. This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued about 50 patents to the company, many of which Amazon applied for a years ago.
WSJ
Real-estate firm Keller Williams is joining with home-sales platform Offerpad, expanding its reach into the fast-growing market of algorithm-driven home sales. The realty franchise entered the all-cash, online sales market known as iBuying in May. The new agreement will give Offerpad first dibs any time a Keller Williams customer wants to sell to an iBuyer instead of putting their home on the open market.
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