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Tulip Retail Raises $40 Million, Led by Kleiner PerkinsAs seen on PR Newswire. Series B Round Led by Kleiner Perkins With Participation from Existing Investors Including Jump Capital NEW YORK, August 22, 2017 – Tulip, a mobile application platform built exclusively for retail stores and sales associates, today announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. Kleiner Perkins led the rou...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is taking on Amazon in what appears to be a copycat move — by applying for a drone-deploying blimp patent. You may recall about a year ago Amazon filed a patent for a flying warehouse that will send drones to your door. Now Walmart wants in on Amazon’s idea. The patent application, first noted in Bloomberg, shows the Walmart blimp would float about 500 to 1,000 feet in the...
According to KPMG, this year in Q1 2017 global investment in FinTech companies hit $3.2 billion across 260 deals… and this is just the beginning. The way the internet changed publishing and music, FinTech is now changing industries like commercial real-estate (CRE) by modernizing the old-school processes used by finance. It’s no secret that collecting receivables for CRE companies is a challen...
The days of lagging portfolio information and manual data aggregation are quickly falling behind us. Large investment management firms are adopting new technologies to ensure they have asset information at their fingertips in real-time, ultimately helping them drive portfolio performance. LaSalle Investment Management’s Head of U.S. Asset Management, Kristy Heuberger, Invesco’s Managing Direct...
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired- Aug 21, 2017)- Standard Cognition, which is eliminating the hassle of retail checkout by removing it entirely, announced today the initial launch of its artificial intelligence-based system that lets consumers shop and pay without scanning or stopping to check out. An alternative to Amazon Go, the Standard Cognition platform is available to any retailer, helping to red...
Leading Brokerage Firms in the Commercial Real Estate Industry Coming to CRE // Tech New York on December 7, 2017 Heads of Technology, Innovation and Operations at CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL and NKF to speak at the largest event ever in CRE tech industry New York, NY (August 21, 2017)-- CRE // Tech (cretech.com) announced that the 2017 CRE // Tech New York Event will feature a pa...
Capital Float, which claims to be the largest online lending platform in India, announced today that it has raised a $45 million Series C led by Ribbit Capital. Returning investors SAIF Partners, Sequoia India and Creation Investments also participated. Capital Float’s last round of funding was a $25 million Series B in May 2016. It has now raised about $87 million in total equity financing sinc...
eMoov, one of a number of online real estate agents fighting it out in the U.K., has picked up £9 million in new backing. The round was led by consumer investment group JXC Ventures, with participation from existing investors Episode 1 VC, Maxfield Capital, Spire and Startive Ventures. Gaby Salem of Wharton Asset Management has also invested in a personal capacity, along with unnamed high net wor...
I read an article recently that said consumer-goods giant Unilever has been hiring entry-level team members using brain games and artificial intelligence. Wait a minute … hear me out. Rather than head to universities to collect resumes and in-person interviews, Unilever has turned to technology —that is, after all, where the workforce is today. Candidates first learn about job opportunities vi...
itemprop="headline"> Simon malls launch chatbot to answer shoppers’ questions Updated August 20, 2017 6:00 AM By Daysi Calavia-Robertson daysi.calavia-robertson@newsday.com Reprints +- Diane Barbera, of Bay Shore, uses the Simon Property Group's "bot" on Facebook Messenger to glean information about amenities at its Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station on Aug. 1...