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Crunchbase
Nomad Homes, which is creating a digital platform that uses technology to help people in Europe and the Middle East buy and finance homes more easily, has received a $4 million seed round boost.
Related Companies
In this episode of Fly on the Wall, Brendan sits down with Jeff Blau, CEO, Related Companies, the developer behind New York City’s Hudson Yards. Jeff explains the art of curation that comes from building a retail destination that functions as a “city within a city” (e.g. a space where visitors can live, shop, work, and dine) and the heightened responsibility landlords now hold as “micro-mayors” of these spaces.
Bloomberg
Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk said the carmaker is on the verge of developing technology to render its vehicles fully capable of driving themselves, repeating a claim he’s made for years but been unable to achieve.
CREtech
CREtech (cretech.com) and FUTURE PropTech, the largest intelligence platforms devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that Andy Cohen, Co-CEO at Gensler will take the stage for the Reimagining Real Estate Virtual Global Summit, the largest global real estate tech virtual conference ever assembled….
The Real Deal
Compass is launching an AI-powered tool to help homeowners visualize improvements and determine what upgrades to make, building on the firm’s program that fronts the cost of home renovations.
CREtech
CREtech (cretech.com) and FUTURE PropTech, the largest intelligence platforms devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that Ben Lerner, Managing Director at Lerner Associates and Blake Liggio, Partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, will take the stage for the Reimagining Real Estate Virtual Global Summit, the largest global real estate tech virtual conference ever assembled….
The New York Times
As the country reopens, you might start seeing more images like these: real-time heat maps that could find sick people, before they know they are sick. And in a post-quarantine world, you might start having your temperature taken. A lot.
PlaceTech.
The largest productivity increase was identified in the Technology and Media sectors. The highest productivity decrease was in the Education and Research sectors. Respondents miss the office as a place to collaborate and bump into co-workers. But also separation between work-life and home-life is important.
Wall Street Journal
One way to reduce the spread of coronavirus is to maintain ventilation with plenty of fresh air. But what does that amount to in buildings? The pandemic is challenging long-held conventions for offices to be cool, dry, shaded from direct sunlight and mostly sealed off from outside air. Researchers say those conditions can help spread and sustain the virus, prompting manufacturers of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning equipment to alter their products and strategies.
Retail Dive
As governors relaxed stay-at-home orders and people ventured out in recent days, the number of new reported cases of COVID-19 has surged again, reaching a single-day record on Sunday, according to the World Health Organization. Between Jan. 20 and July 1 of this year there have been 2,573,393 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 126,573 deaths in the U.S., according to WHO data.
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