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  • Top Construction Tech Pioneers to Participate in Panel Discussion at CREtech Los Angeles on March 27-28

    CREtech

    Largest conference in commercial real estate tech attracts world-class speakers for its upcoming L.A. conference New York, NY (February 11, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announces new panel session for its upcoming conference in Los Angeles on March 27-28. The session, “Construction Tech: Building Towards Disruption” will feature top pioneers of the construction tech space to discuss their efforts t…

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  • HqO Secures Investment from Jamestown and MetaProp; Tenant Experience Management Partnership with JLL

    HQO

    Boston, MA — Friday, February 8, 2019 — HqO, a tenant experience (TeX) platform for commercial real estate, today announced it added two new investors: Jamestown, one of the largest vertically integrated real estate operators in the U.S. with approximately $10.1 billion of assets under management, and MetaProp, a NYC-based PropTech venture capital firm whose limited partner investors include the top three real estate services firms – JLL, CBRE, and Cushman & Wakefield. As tech-enabled e…

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  • Amazon Invests in Driverless Startup Aurora, Valued at More Than $2 Billion

    WSJ

    Amazon.com Inc . AMZN -1.62% has invested in high-profile autonomous-vehicle startup Aurora, giving the online retailer insight into the fast-developing world of driverless cars as it navigates its growing logistics operation. Aurora Innovation Inc. raised more than $530 million in the latest funding round, which was led by venture firm Sequoia Capital and included capital from Amazon and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Group Inc., TROW -1.45% the startup said Thursday. The invest…

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  • Seeking an edge, U.S. landlords turn to tenant experience apps

    REUTERS

    NEW YORK (Reuters) – The firm that sold Chelsea Market to Google for $2.4 billion has joined three large brokerages, among others, to back software designed to meet the growing demands of a millennial workforce that is changing how office space is leased and managed. Office workers now interact online or through smartphones and landlords who ignore this trend will lose clients, said Michael Phillips, president of Jamestown LP, a real estate investment firm that mixed off-beat food and retail …

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  • A Self-Driving Dream Team Gets $530 Million From Sequoia, Amazon

    BLOOMBERG

    The self-driving startup Aurora Innovation Inc. has raised $530 million from a group of investors led by Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley’s storied venture capital firm, that includes financial backing from Amazon.com Inc. and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. This second round of funding for Aurora values the company at more than $2.5 billion. Aurora’s three co-founders are legendary within the tight community of roboticists and engineers who are leading the charge to make self-driving cars a reality. C…

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  • This Thriving City—and Many Others—Could Soon Be Disrupted by Robots

    WSJ

    Right in the center of Florida is a metro area that’s home to more than 600,000 people, along with some of the most technologically sophisticated distribution centers in the country. In and around the city of Lakeland, you’ll find operations from Amazon, DHL (for Ikea),Walmart , Rooms to Go, Medline and Publix, along with a huge Geico call center, the world’s largest wine-and-spirits distribution warehouse and local factories that produce natural and artificial flavors and, of all things, gli…

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  • German co-living firm inks deal for first Brooklyn location

    CRAINS NEW YORK

    A German co-living company plans to open a new location in Bedford Stuyvesant later this year as part of a nationwide expansion, the firm announced Friday. Quarters has agreed to master lease all 84 units in an upcoming mixed-use building at 1190 Fulton St. that is being developed by Bawabeh Realty Holdings. The developer plans to break ground on the project in March, and once the building is complete Quarters will furnish the rooms and lease them out in the hopes that residents will pay a prem…

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  • CREtech Goes “Inside Prologis” for Panel Presented at Los Angeles Conference on March 27-28

    CREtech

    New York, NY (February 4, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announced a new panel session for its upcoming conference in Los Angeles on March 27-28. The session, “Inside Prologis,” will feature two of Prologis Ventures’ leading tech and operations professionals who will discuss how their company’s overall tech investment and adoption strategies….

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  • CREtech Releases 2018 End-Year Report On State Of The Commercial Real Estate Tech Sector

    CREtech

    New York, NY (February 5, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announced today that the 2018 CREtech End-Year Report is now available for free download. This annual report is considered one of the most important analysis of the commercial real estate tech sector and provides a detailed overview of the sector. The first report produced since the acquisition of RE:Tech, CREtech has expanded upon its resear…

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  • Under 30 To The Top: VC Firm Bessemer Promotes Talia Goldberg To Partner At Age 28

    FORBES

    She headlined the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 Venture Capital class as the youngest vice president in the storied history of VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners. Now, less than two years later, Talia Goldberg has finished her rise through the ranks with a promotion that makes her one of the youngest investment partners at an established VC firm. Goldberg, 28, was named a partner by Bessemer on Tuesday, making her the fifteenth partner at the firm across offices that include the San Francisco Bay Area…

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