Last-Mile Delivery Services Finally Reaches The Health Care Sector

How One Rental Startup Gamed Airbnb

Jay Roberts, the CEO and co-founder of a startup called Domio, purchased a newly constructed condo in the city’s North Nashville neighborhood with his then-girlfriend. A few days later, 24-year-old Adrian Lam, chief strategy officer and co-founder of Domio, bought the home directly across the street with his father. Within a month, Domio—a business that converted apartments and homes across the country into accommodations for tourists—listed both of the properties for rent on Airbnb.

Now Available On Demand: PropTech Meets Multifamily Finance – Greystone Tells All

Greystone’s founder, Stephen Rosenberg, is joined by the firm’s new PropTech strategist, Philip Miller, for a discussion about being a leader in your business while embarking on a PropTech journey. Is it better to buy or build to achieve your goals? Moderator Clelia Warburg Peters of Bain Venture Partners leads the discussion on harnessing analytics in CRE finance.

XAI Land Incorporates AI for Real Estate Investing in Korea

Most of the wealthiest people in South Korea own real estate. Real estate investing in Korea is considered one of the top long-term investments people can make. In addition, unlike stocks, with real estate, there are plenty of deals that can be found if you do your research. The truth is real estate all around the world are not priced perfectly. Therefore people can find great deals. However, most buyers don’t have the time to do proper research….

STRATIS, Leading Multifamily IoT Platform, Appoints Chief Financial Officer Liyan Shen

As STRATIS, PropTech industry leader continues to dominate at the cusp of exciting Multifamily IoT innovations, Liyan Shen joins as the Chief Financial Officer, with ten years of experience in financial leadership, focused on entrepreneurial, high-growth companies. Shen’s deep expertise includes experience with startups and PE-backed portfolio companies. Her most recent experiences include launching an e-commerce startup with strong recurring revenues and growing an innovative educational organi…

Many companies planned to reopen offices after Labor Day. With COVID still around, they’re rethinking that.

This summer, executives at health-care-technology firm Epic Systems announced a plan: Most of the 9,500 employees at its 1,000-acre campus in Wisconsin would be expected back in the office in September. The company, like many others, says its employees do their best work when they can collaborate in the same space. But blowback to the mandate was swift. Employees expressed fears about safety and spreading the new coronavirus. Local health officials questioned the move. So Epic joined legions of …

Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B

This morning MURAL announced it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate and brainstorm. MURAL announced it had raised $23 million earlier this year, though that investment closed in 2019. The $23 million round was a more traditionally sized Series A, coming after what TechCrunch then described as a “history of capital efficient growth.”…

1 big thing: 15-minute cities are making a comeback

Situational awareness: At the end of today, unless an appeals court grants Uber and Lyft’s request to further suspend a recent ruling ordering them to immediately reclassify drivers as employees, the companies plan to suspend their ride-hailing services across California until at least November’s election.

The CREtech Reimagining Real Estate Hackathon Challenge

As of 9 AM this morning in New York, over 435 of you have registered from over 60 organizations and two dozen countries, and more are joining every hour. Over the next two weeks, we expect those numbers to more than double, as over 100 projects will be formed to tackle some of the most pressing problems in the world’s real estate industry. Welcome to the CREtech Reimagining Real Estate Challenge. Background The world is in the midst of a crisis unlike anything we have experienced in our li…

Startups tied to Joshua Kushner received millions in COVID-19 relief funds

A deep-pocketed venture-capital firm run by Jared Kushner’s brother watched some of its tech startups rake in millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief loans — despite the fact that it urged them not to take the cash, The Post has learned.