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  • Cadre Announces Opening of Chicago Office

    BUSINESS WIRE

    New Office Further Accelerates Nationwide Presence NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cadre, a technology-enabled real estate investment platform, today announced it is opening a Chicago office. The new office will be the New York City-based startup’s third location. The expansion, following the opening of a Toronto, Canada office in December 2017, is the result of continued growth for Cadre’s team and investment platform. Cadre has closed more than $1.2 billion in investments to date, and in Janu…

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  • Next Generation Of CRE Data Companies Cautiously Emerges To Challenge CoStar

    BISNOW

    The commercial real estate data sector is rapidly and fundamentally changing before our eyes. Startups like VTS, Reonomy and CompStak are launching new services, charting nationwide expansions, landing venture capital investments and securing institutional partnerships. As they widen their product offerings and user bases, these companies are beginning to resemble young versions of the industry’s Goliath: CoStar.  But don’t tell them that. Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/te…

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  • Regulatory Support for Startups Comes Into Vogue

    WSJ

    Urban Innovation Fund, an early advocate of navigating bureaucracy, closes a $22.5 million fund  When Julie Lein and Clara Brenner set out five years ago to invest in companies addressing urban challenges, venture capitalists were writing blog posts about how startups should avoid highly regulated industries. But since that time, Uber Technologies Inc., Airbnb Inc. and WeWork Inc. have become some of the most highly valued private companies in the world. More venture …

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  • Knotel Founder Amol Sarva On His Blockchain Plans, NYC Expansion

    BISNOW

    For every real estate deal Knotel does, company founder Amol Sarva estimates 2% of its value is taken up just verifying information. “Let’s just say we are looking at a property in [the] Financial District,” said Sarva, whose flexible office company now has around 50 locations in New York City, with more to be announced. “[We want to figure out] — ‘how big is it, what’s the floor plan, what’s the shape? Who was the last tenant in the space?'” It is not “top secret stuff” but rather a “messy p…

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  • CommonSense Robotics makes your warehouse work like clockwork

    TECHCRUNCH

    Meet CommonSense Robotics, an Israel-based startup focused on optimizing e-commerce warehouses with cute little robots and a comprehensive software solution. We talked with the startup last month and could even order a few items in its test fulfillment center. The most visual part of the system is the tiny little robots that move on the ground. But this isn’t the smart part of the system. CommonSense Robotics has basically turned warehouses into a giant game of Tetris combined with Battleship…

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  • Blackstone’s Newly Rebranded Equity Office Inks Deal With Industrious To Bring Coworking To Its Offices

    BISNOW

    Blackstone-owned EQ Office, a U.S. office portfolio company formerly named Equity Office, has undergone a major rebrand that includes plans to reposition several properties to improve the employee experience, as well as new partnerships with flex space operators to make more efficient use of its footprint. Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/office/blackstones-equity-office-rebrands-as-eq-office-inks-deal-with-industrious-to-bring-co-working-to-its-offices-89796?rt=59715?utm_so…

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  • Guest Blog – How a software Robot can give you 90% efficiency gains this year

    CRETech

    By: Brendan Canny, Managing Director of Open Box Software There’s a lot of talk about the 4th industrial revolution and how we are moving towards the fusion of technology and people. It seems like everyone is talking about robotics, artificial intelligence, the blockchain, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, the Internet of Things, 3D printing and autonomous vehicles. A quick Google of “Real Estate technology” reveals that, far from being a laggard, as it is often presented, …

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  • NKF backs space-planning app creators

    REAL ESTATE WEEKLY

    Workframe, a collaboration and communication platform purpose-built for commercial real estate (CRE) professionals, raised $9.5 million in Series B funding led by CRE advisory firm Newmark Knight Frank (NKF), which will be rolling out Workframe across its service lines nationwide. The financing also included participation from the venture capital arm of firm MetaProp, as well as Venrock, a venture capital firm and repeat Workframe investor. Workframe was founded by entrepreneurs Robert Moo…

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  • Workplace design startup Saltmine seeking key hires for VP Customer Success and East Coast Sales Director

    SALTMINE

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2018 —  Saltmine today announced that it is looking to hire two critical new senior sales roles. The first role – VP of Customer Success – will lead all customer-facing teams and will be based out of San Francisco.  The second role is an East Coast Sales Director based out of NYC. Saltmine is a San Francisco-based startup reimagining and rebuilding the entire process through which workspace is designed from concept through costing to procurement in one integrated clou…

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  • Hello Alfred taking over Bjarke Ingels’ former space at 61 Broadway

    THE REAL DEAL

    Property management startup and in-home assistant Hello Alfred is taking over Bjarke Ingels Group’s former space at RXR Realty’s 61 Broadway in downtown Manhattan. Hello Alfred moved into its new digs from 55 West 19th Street the day after Ingels’ company moved into a 50,000-square-foot space at Two Trees Management’s 45 Main Street in Dumbo, according to the New York Post. It will take up just over 22,000 square feet in the building and signed a 10-year lease with rents in the low $60s per s…

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