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  • Q&A with Ash Zandieh on the State of the CREtech Investment Sector

    CREtech

    Our newly appointed Chief Research Advisor of CREtech, Ash Zandieh, is one of the most respected thought-leaders in the commercial real estate tech sector. Personally, I not only respect the guy, I admire him. Like my friend Pierce Neinken (who I had the great fortune of acquiring his platform, CREtech, in 2017), I always try and surround myself with good, decent, hard working and win-win people in regards to business. It’s the driving force behind my own “no asshole” rule at work! One of the…

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  • Workwell wants to be the companion app for your office building

    TECHCRUNCH

    French startup Workwell has released a major update to its platform. The company now provides an app to manage as many things related to your office building as possible from your phone. The company started with a sort of intranet replacement. You could book meeting rooms, get a map of the office and contact your co-workers from the app. Workwell now wants to create a more flexible platform that expands beyond your company and beyond a single office building….

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  • Top Commercial Real Estate Events and Conferences [2019]

    SHARPLAUNCH

    Commercial real estate events and conferences provide a great platform for CRE professionals to network, build relationships, generate leads and expand their knowledge about the industry and market trends.

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  • Retail technology platform Relex raises $200M from TCV

    TECHCRUNCH

    Amazon’s formidable presence in the world of retail stems partly from the fact that it’s just not a commerce giant, it’s also a tech company — building solutions and platforms in-house that make its processes, from figuring out what to sell, to how much to have on hand and how best to distribute it, more efficient and smarter than those of its competition. Now, one of the startups that is building retail technology to help those that are not Amazon compete better with it, has raised a significan…

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  • Building energy monitoring company Buddy to acquire smart light startup LIFX

    GEEKWIRE

    Buddy, a Seattle-based company that manages building energy, today announced its intention to acquire LIFX, a smart light maker based in Silicon Valley. Buddy will pay $51 million in cash and stock to acquire LIFX, according to a press release. LIFX will continue to operate as its own entity and brand. The companies both have U.S.-Australia connections. Buddy originally launched in Seattle eight years ago and went public in 2015 as part of an unusual deal described as a “reverse takeover” …

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  • Online Retailers Set Up Shop in Newfangled Manhattan Mall

    WSJ

    The first thing I did when visiting Showfields, the new, four-story, self-proclaimed “Most Interesting Store in the World,” in Manhattan was try a new toothbrush. A sales rep selling electric toothbrush kits for dental care startup Quip donned plastic gloves, squirted paste onto a new brush head and waited patiently as I buzzed the device around in my mouth until its two-minute timer went off.

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  • In growth mode, Knotel to move HQ to former New York Times Building

    THE REAL DEAL

    When Knotel inked a lease in December at Columbia Property Trust’s 229 West 43rd Street, the flexible office space company planned to immediately sublease its full floor to other businesses. Those plans have changed, and now Knotel will be taking the entire 51,000-square-foot space for itself to serve as its new headquarters. Knotel will soon move out of its 14,000 square foot space at 137 Varick Street, which is being transformed into a campus for the Walt Disney Company in Hudson Square….

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  • Rental insurance startup Jetty raises $25M in Series B

    THE REAL DEAL

    The rental insurance startup Jetty has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois, the company announced Wednesday. The investment brings the company’s total funding to more than $40 million. Jetty focuses on selling what it characterizes as rental insurance to city dwellers, and it’s in 46 states. Jetty also offers to serve as a guarantor on apartment leases in exchange for 5 to 10 percent of the annual rent and handle security deposits for an 18 perc…

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  • Why I Left Google for PropTech

    PROPMODO

    Recently, I made a big decision and an even bigger life change. I left my career leading teams at Google, most recently as the head of programmatic ad sales in North America, where I oversaw a multi-billion dollar business and a global portfolio. Google is an amazing company and I was proud to spend 8 years there, but I left to join a PropTech startup. Now I’m leading the business unit as VP of marketing, sales and success at HqO, a startup that’s building a tenant experience platform for com…

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  • CREtech Announces New “CREtech Talk” Session On What Comes After Co-Working By Dror Poleg at Los Angeles Conference on March 27-28

    CREtech

    Rethinking Real Estate’s Dror Poleg Will Present At The Largest Conference In Commercial Real Estate Tech Sector On The West Coast In 2019 New York, NY (February 6, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announced a new session to be presented by Dror Poleg, Founder, Rethinking Real Estate. The session, “CREtech Talks: What Comes After Co-Working” will be available to all attendees of the upcoming conferenc…

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