Convene’s Chief Design Officer Joyce Bromberg Resigns
Commercial Observer
The chief design officer for flex meeting, event and office provider Convene, Joyce Bromberg, resigned from her post after a decade at the company, Convene announced today.
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Preparing The Built World For The New Normal: Part VII, Presented by Openpath
CREtech
Built world and real estate industry experts come together to share actionable advice on what the new normal might look like and how we can best prepare for a post-Covid compliant world.
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Five Ways Property Managers Need to be Planning for Re-Entry
GlobeSt
The last time I wrote about how property managers can help their clients through COVID-19, the US was in the early stages of the pandemic. States were beginning to issue stay-at-home orders and businesses were working hard to keep their employees safe, all while maintaining their operations.
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Troubled Magic Leap just secured $350 million in funding
Business Insider
Magic Leap just raised a $350 million investment round as it tries to secure its future — read the email CEO Rony Abovitz sent employees.
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“57 channels and nothing on.”
Michael Beckerman
“57 channels and nothing on.” – Bruce Springsteen I am losing my f-in mind!!! What I used to hear in my head was “Bruuuuuuuuuce” and it has officially been replaced by “Zooooooom”. Just because someone can appear on a webinar or video doesn’t mean they should. Sorry. That sounds shitty and very judgmental I know. But as someone who has been in the content business for 35 years, I think I have a good handle on what good content is and what is crap. Everyone is talking Covid-19. And ever…
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On-demand storage startup MakeSpace picks up another $55M
TechCrunch
Sheltering-in-place and working from home curing COVID-19 has driven many of us to reorganize and de-clutter our living environments, and today one of the startups that is capitalizing on that trend is announcing a large round of funding to continue its growth. MakeSpace, an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store and retrieve your physical belongings (also providing the muscle — that is, people — to help you do it), has closed a $55 million round — $45 million in equity fun…
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Spruce is eliminating the drudgery of real estate, and has $29M more from Scale to make sales easy
TechCrunch
Real estate is one of those classic industries we always talk about in Silicon Valley: multi-trillion dollars in scale in terms of assets and transaction volume, but still relying on good ole’ pen and paper to get anything actually done. A huge number of companies have launched to digitize all aspects of real estate, from calculating valuations to monitoring operational costs and underwriting mortgages….
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Chief, the leadership network for women, raises $15 million in funding
TechCrunch
Chief, the social network dedicated exclusively to women in professional leadership positions, announced today that it has $15 million in funding from its existing investors, including General Catalyst, Inspired Capital, GGV Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital and BoxGroup.
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States Title Secures $123M Series C For Faster Mortgage Closings
Crunchbase
Buying a home is one of the biggest, and most expensive, decisions in a person’s life. Over the past year or so, we’ve written about a slew of startups that have developed technology aimed at making the process smoother and cheaper in one way or another.
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LightBox and First Street Foundation Partner to Provide A New Model for Flood Data Covering 145 Million Properties in United States
PR Web
LightBox, a leading provider of CRE data and workflow solutions, and First Street Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and technology group, announced a partnership today that will provide new data and analytic capabilities to support the valuation, underwriting, and assessment of commercial and residential property risk due to natural flood-related disasters.
