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  • An Exclusive CREtech Q&A with Logan Soya, Founder and CEO of Aquicore

    CRETech

      Logan Soya is the founder and CEO of Aquicore, a leading commercial real estate software company with an all-in-one asset operations and management platform. In his role, Soya is responsible for creating and implementing business strategies, managing the company’s investments and resources, as well as driving Aquicore’s future innovation and growth. With a background in physics, technology, systems management and business, Soya founded Aquicore in 2012 on a mission to create a glob…

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  • Ryan Williams, 30, Started A Revolutionary $800M Fintech. But Can He Escape His Kushner-Trump Connection?

    FORBES

    Just before Christmas, the Associated Press published an article on the ways Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, might personally profit from the generous new “opportunity zone” tax breaks they had championed as advisors to their father/father-in-law, who happens to be the president of the United States. The very first path cited in the widely read story: Kushner’s investment in the real estate startup Cadre, a stake worth up to $50 million, according to his most recent federal financia…

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  • Online lender Better Mortgage Raises $70 Million in Venture Capital

    WSJ

    In just two years, online lending platform Better Mortgage Inc. has appreciated in value like a move-in ready home in a sought-after neighborhood. The New York company raised a $70 million Series C funding round from a group of investors that include Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan and American Express Ventures, in a deal that values the company at just north of $500 million. Prior backers of the company, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ,Kleiner Perkins and Pine Brook Partners, also pa…

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  • Transformation: Physical Meets Digital at the Cutting Edge of Tech

    DAYBREAKER

    To say that the last two years have been ones of transition and transformation for brick-and-mortar retailers would be a dramatic understatement. The year of 2017 was one of the worst for brick-and-mortar retail, with several big-name bankruptcy filings and analysts comparing the market to Great Recession-era performance. The year 2018 featured retrenchment and reckoning, as retailers realized that a “business as usual” mentality was fundamentally unworkable in the age of Amazon.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO COULD BE FIRST TO BAN FACIAL RECOGNITION TECH

    WIRED

    IF A LOCAL tech industry critic has his way, San Francisco could become the first US city to ban its agencies from using facial recognition technology. Aaron Peskin, a member of the city’s Board of Supervisors, proposed the ban Tuesday as part of a suite of rules to enhance surveillance oversight. In addition to the ban on facial recognition technology, the ordinance would require city agencies to gain the board’s approval before buying new surveillance technology, putting the burden on city …

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  • CREDiligent announces App release for iOS and Android

    CREDILIGENT

    CREDiligent.com announced today the release of the commercial due diligence app CREDiligent for iOS and Android device. Due diligence is the most important part in a real estate acquisition. Finding the deal is primary but analyzing and properly doing the due diligence is pivotal.  This is the time when you find out if you’re buying a good deal, or you’re not. A newly released app, CREDiligent is a due diligence task list made specifically for CRE purchases. The application is free and sim…

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  • Nest’s security system can now be a Google Assistant

    TECHCRUNCH

    A bit over a year after its release, Nest’s security alarm system is picking up a new trick: it can now double as a Google Assistant device. Nest announced the new functionality this afternoon, saying that it’s being “pushed out to all Nest Secure systems both new and old” today. This update effectively turns the Nest Secure’s keypad hub into a Google Home Mini, allowing you to do things like say “Hey Google, turn off the lights” or “Hey Google, arm the alarm” on the way out the door. It’s…

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  • 10 THINGS WRONG WITH TENANT SUBMETERING (AND HOW TO FIX THEM)

    ENERTIV

    Many Commercial Real Estate (CRE) companies bill their tenants each month based on the amount of electricity, water and/or gas they consume. Generally, this is a smart business move. Not only does it guarantee that management won’t underestimate their tenants’ consumption and end up on the hook for the difference, increasingly savvy tenants are including utility billing as a factor in lease decisions. There’s just one little problem. The current process of billing tenants for their actual con…

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  • Top 5 #CRE Megatrends for 2019

    DEB NOLLER

    As I mentioned in my recent video discussing this year’s CRE megatrends, not only is the real estate industry last to adopt digital technologies, it’s dead last. However, with nearly 60% of U.S. organizations making smart building energy investments in 2019, there’s no doubt in my mind that this year will bring several ‘coming of age’ moments for the industry. So what’s changed since my last series of CRE megatrends predictions? For one, timing is more crucial than ever, with major shifts in …

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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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