Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Bisnow
WeWork is the lead investor behind a new $30M funding round for a flexible workspace tech startup it began partnering with earlier this year. Upflex also received funding from Newmark, Cushman & Wakefield and others as part of the Series A round, it announced Wednesday.
TheRealDeal
In most real estate rooms, Tishman Speyer is the 800-pound-gorilla. But Rob Speyer wants it to be the most nimble gorilla, one that can constantly reposition its 90 million-square-foot portfolio in response to the trends driving the world today.
GlobeSt
Last fall, LEX Markets launched an IPO for a partial share of a retail-and-office property in New York City that was open to investors with a minimum of $250 to put in. After similar “multiple successful IPOs,” the company is taking a Seattle building public, according to a company press release.
Bisnow
The A&D industry has used 3D renderings as a visualization tool for years, but VR and AR take the experience one step further by allowing clients to interact with their space without ever entering the building. Supporters of the technology say this saves time and money by eliminating confusion about how a final design will look. …
EGi
If the headline of this piece caught your attention, chances are it is because it taps into a business-orientated approach to tackling climate change. An approach to which the real estate sector responds particularly well. The message, loud and clear, at the CREtech climate global leadership summit in Copenhagen last
PlaceTech
As ESG regulations tighten worldwide, CREtech Climate shed light on some of the acronyms real estate must understand – and act on. In a presentation at the Copenhagen conference, Roxana Isaiu, chief product officer at GRESB, defined three crucial initiatives and regulatory frameworks that could determine the financial and operational risks real estate faces in its path to net zero.
CREtech
Join CREtech & Alpaca VC’s upcoming webinar ‘The Great PropCo Opportunity’. As the PropTech ecosystem evolves and LP mindsets transition from “PropTech 1.0” to “PropTech 2.0”, there is a clear shift away from learning about one-off, point solutions and a desire to find ways to deploy PropCo capital programmatically and be the first to learn/discover new emerging asset classes.
The Times of Israel
What if you could buy a new home designed to your specification, ready to live in within a quarter of the time it normally takes to build a new house, while leaving just half the carbon footprint of other construction? As Americans strain under the weight of a housing shortage, an Israeli-founded and led company in San Mateo, California, Veev, is promising to do just that, remaking pre-fabricated construction by innovating new ways to put homes together quicker, greener and more efficiently t…
EGi
Having been focused on helping to build a thriving real estate tech industry for almost 10 years, the rate of growth I have seen in the sector has been truly extraordinary.
Antony Slumbers
Aristotle, who lived, 384-322 BC, is said to be the last person who knew everything there was that was known. And even he knew nothing, of course, about the areas of the world that he did not know even existed. Prior to the printing press (starting in 1436) enabling widespread dissemination of the written word, it was possible to get close to reading everything that had been written, that existed within the geography you inhabited. Leonardo (1452-1519) famously travelled around with his own libr…
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