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  • UpClose With MetaProp’s Zachary Aarons

    GLOBEST

    MetaProp co-founder and partner Zachary Aarons has been working at the intersection of real estate and venture capital for the past decade. He has funded more than 60 startups in the space as an individual as well as 60 startups (and counting) through MetaProp NYC’s venture capital funds. In addition to early-stage investing, Zach has worked on large scale mixed-use development projects in cities like Boston and Los Angeles with Millennium Partners and has experience with real estate development…

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  • Platform Offers Rental Tracking, Automated Categories

    GLOBEST

    SAN FRANCISCO—Stessa recently released features to help owners of rental properties better manage entire portfolios in a single platform. The portfolio tracking platform for rental property investors has grown more than 50-fold in the last year, according to the company announcement. “By providing powerful free tools for the individual investor, Stessa makes it easier for landlords to keep track of their real estate investments,” said Heath Silverman, co-founder and CEO of Stessa. “Our goal i…

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  • Former Vornado Head Mitchell Schear Joins PropTech Venture Capital Firm

    BISNOW

    Longtime D.C. real estate executive Mitchell Schear is joining a firm that invests in PropTech companies. Schear was named executive partner of Camber Creek, a PropTech venture capital firm that has invested in 22 companies and currently has $50M under management.

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  • Airbnb, pre-IPO

    THE REAL DEAL

    Airbnb has been an almost perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” culture since it burst onto the scene in 2008. The company — which claims to have more than 6 million listings globally (a number it says is more rooms than the six largest hotel groups combined) — became very popular very fast with the public. But it’s also faced aggressive opposition from the city government and the hotel industry since the moment it landed in New York. And that ire has not let up….

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  • Walmart marries AI and human intelligence for in-home grocery delivery

    VENTUREBEAT

    At Transform 2019, Walmart’s VP of customer experience engineering Aanan Contractor and Walmart ecommerce’s VP, Lucinda Newcomb sat down with FEM CEO Rachel Payne to discuss Walmart’s latest forays into blending the online and offline worlds using AI and automation.

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  • SoftBank Rolls Out Second Tech Megafund, With Apple Among Top Investors

    WSJ

    TOKYO—Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 3.88% unveiled a second technology megafund even bigger than its nearly $100 billion Vision Fund, answering skeptics who questioned whether anyone could raise so much in such a short time. Vision Fund 2, as the company is calling it, expects to gather some $108 billion in capital from more than a dozen investors that have signed memorandums of understanding, ranging from Apple Inc. AAPL 0.35% and Microsoft Corp. to Kazakhstan’s sovereign-wealth fund, So…

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  • CREtech Announces New Additions To Its Leadership Board

    CREtech

    Group Represents Most Distinguished Leaders in Commercial Real Estate Tech Sector New York, NY (June 26, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform for the commercial real estate technology industry has announced 99 new additions to its Leadership Board, the most prestigious group of commercial real estate executives in the world. The Leadership Board provides CREtech with invaluable insights on macro trends in the growing commercial real estate tech s…

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  • Virtual reality ‘Star Wars’ experiences move into malls as clothing stores go dark

    CNBC

    Let’s face it. People don’t go to the local mall just to walk around with friends, buy a pretzel and maybe see a movie, like they used to. Mall owners realize they need to bring in a new wave of entertainment venues to keep luring people in. So now escape rooms, places where you can pay to throw an axe at a wall and virtual reality experiences that make you feel like you’re on the set of a “Star Wars” movie are popping up at malls across the country.

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  • No Matter the Property Type, It Pays to Invest in Energy Efficiency

    COMMERCIAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE

    When the Institute for Market Transformation released a series of case studies examining the financial outlay and impact of energy efficient retrofits on a range of building types across the United States, it caught my attention. As the chief operating officer of a real estate company that owns an extremely diverse portfolio, I’m always interested in understanding which property types benefit the most from energy efficiency upgrades….

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  • Paradox Partners Launches Co-Work Operations

    CONNECT TEXAS

    Paradox Partners LLC is launching a co-work concept to provide entrepreneurs with affordable and flexible workspace. The company is basing its operations in San Antonio, and will open the first Paradox co-working space at 8522 Broadway, a two-story, 39,333-square-foot building. Colorado investor Alex Gerber acquired the mixed-use building out of foreclosure in 2017. Gerber, who is also launching the Paradox workspace, said he wanted to provide co-working space in other than urban areas, and g…

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