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  • Green Genius To Invest Over €100 Million To Create Solar Parks In Poland

    CleanTechnica

    Green Genius, a renewable energy company that is a part of an international group of companies known as the Modus Group, has sunny ambitions for Poland. At the end of last year, it won two auctions for solar power plant projects with a total capacity of 79 megawatts. Along with these, the company plans to build solar power plants with a total capacity of 32 megawatts this year. In total, Green Genius aims to install new solar power plants with a total capacity of 154 megawatts in Poland “in the …

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  • Short-Term Rental Startups Pick Up Units of Failed Rivals

    The Real Deal

    After six years in business, Lyric succumbed to shaky finances and a travel shutdown in July 2020. Now, the 66-story Lower Manhattan building is the New York City flagship for Mint House, a three-year-old startup that caters to business travelers. 

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  • Modular Construction Has An Image Problem. Housing Proponents Are Trying To Fix It

    Bisnow

    Modular construction is increasingly popping up in the Bay Area and elsewhere as a sustainable, lower-cost, quicker way to deliver affordable housing, but unfamiliarity and misconceptions are curtailing its use.

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  • The future of “smart” cities is in street lights

    AXIOS

    Cities are rushing to replace their legacy street lights with “smart” LED fixtures that could one day be able to find you a parking space, monitor air quality, and announce an oncoming thunderstorm. Why it matters: Despite a bumpy and controversial start to some smart street light programs, cities are saving tons of money on energy by banishing traditional bulbs — and may soon be able to turn a profit by monetizing data from smart LED sensors or leasing space on light poles….

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  • Matterport $2.9B SPAC Announcement Marks Navitas’ 2nd Billion Dollar Plus Portfolio Company Public Valuation Since December

    PR Newswire

    LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Navitas Capital announced today that its portfolio company, Matterport, will be going public following a merger with Gores Holdings VI at a valuation of $2.9 billion.  Navitas first invested in Matterport’s seed round after meeting the team at Y-Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator in 2011.  Following its initial investment, Navitas continued to invest in each following round up to today’s announcement.  Navitas’ Matterport investment came after i…

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  • CREtech+ Legends Series Presents: “Welcome to the Future” Featuring Lisa Picard of EQ Office

    CREtech+

    Lisa Picard, President and CEO of EQ Office, opens up about the key lessons she’s learned through her legendary career, who she draws leadership inspiration from, and how she sees the culture and needs of Office evolving in a post-pandemic world.

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  • Origin Stories: Reonomy Co-Founder Rich Sarkis On Being The Cockroach Of Proptech

    Bisnow

    Rich Sarkis had no prior commercial real estate experience when he co-founded Reonomy, a data and analytics platform that leans on public documents to compile information like construction date, building ownership, debt and tax assessments in one place, in 2013.

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  • Cisco Meraki and Openpath launch new enterprise access, video security solution

    ZDNet

    On Wednesday, the companies said that by merging Cisco Meraki’s cloud security and smart camera technology together with Openpath’s access control and workplace safety automation portfolio, clients can take advantage of “cloud-first, security technology that can be managed from any location in real-time.”

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  • Salesforce to Shrink Its Office Footprint

    Wall Street Journal

    Salesforce.com Inc. CRM 1.91% plans for most of its employees to work remotely part or full time after the pandemic and to reduce its real-estate footprint as a result, a top executive said, showing Covid-19’s lasting impact on how companies manage their workforces….

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  • Nativ Raises Funds For Deal-Management Software

    The Real Deal

    New York-based Nativ closed a $3 million seed round to help the startup grow its workflow software Atlas, co-founders Jeff Saul and Adam Kerr told The Real Deal. The round was led by San Francisco-based VC investor Bling Capital, which has backed other proptech companies like CompStak and VTS.

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