CREtech Briefs January 21, 2022 - CREtech San Diego Releases Agenda for West Coast Conference, Concrete-AI Raises $2 Million + More
Today's Headlines
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BLOG | CREtech
New York, NY (January, 19 2022) — CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has released their agenda at a glance for the must-attend real estate technology conference, CREtech San Diego, which will take place this
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NEWS | AIThority
Concrete-AI?announced it has raised $2 million in a seed financing round with participation by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, a prominent family office and other marquee investors. This financing will accelerate the rollout of Concrete-AI’s pioneering data science platform that uses
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NEWS | YouTube
Speaking on Ian King Live on Sky News, Gregory Dewerpe, founder of Europe's largest proptech VC A/O PropTech, makes the case for why VCs - and particularly those focused on sustainable technology - have a major role to play in decarbonising the built world, which
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NEWS | All Work
WeWork has signed women’s healthcare company Organon as its first enterprise client for Workplace by WeWork, the coworking firm’s software management tool.
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NEWS | Bloomberg
Blackstone Inc.?plans to spend $1 billion to acquire rental houses and lease them out at below-market rates, billing the program as a private-sector answer to soaring housing costs.
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NEWS | Bisnow
London-focused private equity investor?Crosstree Real Estate?has bought into dark kitchen operator?Karma?Kitchen, as it looks to profit from the rise of food delivery and the growing value of urban logistics assets. Crosstree has?taken a minority stake in Karma Kitchen, React News reported, and will back the
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NEWS | Washington Post
Nearly two years after millions of Americans became abruptly acquainted with Zoom, questions about what the post-pandemic office will look like can be answered with a quick look around: It’s already here.
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NEWS | Canary Media
Multifamily housing has lagged far behind single-family homes in adopting solar panels and batteries. But Michael Huerta,?CEO?of?PearlX, believes his company has found a?way to crack the market, starting in?Texas.
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NEWS | Commercial Observer
In the last couple of years, proptech startups?have become?increasingly attractive investments for many investors in and out of the real estate industry. As part of that interest, a number of family office investors focused on early-stage proptech companies have become increasingly prominent on capitalization tables,
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NEWS | Axios
WeWork is doubling down on the hybrid workplace:?Its newest product, Workplace by WeWork, is a piece of software that lets companies manage their workplaces online,?Erica Pandey writes.
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