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Forbes
When the C-suite has a new management priority, a new job title often follows. In the mid-2000s, businesses added innovation executives to focus their companies on organic growth. In recent years, chief diversity officers multiplied to guide businesses toward better equity and inclusion amid a national racial reckoning….
Placetech
Nexudus, the white-label platform to manage coworking and flex workspace, has published what it claims is the largest study of the flexible workspace industry ever conducted. With 3.5 million data points analysed across 90 countries, the study reveals key trends in the evolution of the industry over the past five years, including the impact of Covid on flex demand and usage. The study includes comparative analysis of the flexible workspace markets in the US, UK and Spain.
Placetech
Grosvenor Hill Ventures, the proptech investment subsidiary of Savills, has acquired Cureoscity, a white label tenant and office management software provider.
Placetech
As occupiers demand healthier spaces, Derwent London’s White Collar Factory has become the latest prime office building to sign up to an indoor air quality rating scheme.
Curbed
Behold the building of the future: mossy stones lying strewn around a hill outside the English city of Windsor, carved, shaped, and incised in the fashions of centuries past. These chunks of 18th-century wall and Victorian cornice have lain in the woods for nearly 100 years, remnants of a British country home dismembered, like so many others, so there’d be nothing left to pay taxes on. Now Matthew Barnett Howland, an architect at the Eton-based firm CSK, and the business-communications entrepren…
Canary Media
The vast majority of California’s rooftop solar has been installed on single-family, owner-occupied homes. But Dover Janis, CEO of San Diego, California–based startup Ivy Energy, sees apartment buildings as the state’s rooftop-solar future — if the right combination of technology, policy and business models can align to make it happen. The prospects depend in part on how California utility regulators decide to reform the state’s net-metering system for rooftop solar….
Business Times
Construction management platform Hubble has raised S$11.35 million in Series B funding, with new investors including Taronga Ventures, Kajima Ventures, the venture arm of Japan’s Kajima Corp, and Seeds Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore.
TechCrunch
Companies like Opendoor opened the door to a new way of buying and selling properties by inserting a strong middle player who could buy houses or apartments and redevelop them at scale, and then sell them to new homeowners at a profit. Now Clikalia, another player in the so-called iBuyer space, has raised €75 million ($86 million) to take that model to markets in Europe and Latin America.
PR Newswire
EasyKnock, the leading residential sale-leaseback platform, today announced a $57.2 million funding round from a large group of new and existing investors with participation from Blumberg Capital, Gaingels, Moderne Ventures, QED Investors, and Viola FinTech. Some notable individual investors also contributed to the round including Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff’s 75 & Sunny Ventures.
TechCrunch
OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. The space is intriguing to her, but so far, she has not come across a company whose model has been compelling enough to convince her to pull out her checkbook.
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