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Density, a startup that anonymously tracks how people move through buildings, has raised $51 million from heavy-hitting investors in time to help offices reopen for business. The Series C brings the New York City startup’s total funding to $74 million as companies scramble to keep employees
Fueled by buybacks, analyst valuations, earnings expectations and IPOs, SoftBank Group Corp. shares are retracing their way back to heights last seen during the dotcom bubble 20 years ago. SoftBank shares rose 2.3% in Tokyo Tuesday to close at 6,645 yen, the highest since March 2000. The stock is up almost 150% from March.
Last week, cohesion, a spin-off venture of ESD, raised $6.5 million in seed funding to support their award-winning SaaS intelligent building platform, based on technology originally conceived and built at ESD. The cohesion intelligent building app is the first award-winning proptech SaaS to integrate siloed building systems with tenant experience. It provides building developers, owners and operat...
Buying and selling a home are among the biggest decisions someone will make, and they can also be challenging experiences. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Nomad Homes developing a platform to simplify the home-buying experie...
FreightWaves, one of the leading providers of freight data and analytics, has raised $37 million in two rounds of minority investment since April. The latest round was led by Kayne Partners Fund, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. Kayne Partners Fund has committed $30 million to accelerate FreightWaves' growth. This round puts the total capital raised by Freig...
I’m a strong believer - as we’ve explored several times over the past few months – that the current COVID-19 pandemic, though devastating for society and the economy, is motivating real estate industry stakeholders to fully embrace proptech and the value it can deliver now and for the future. It’s not surprising that, in all this doom and gloom, startups providing this value are getting t...
A handful of startups raised venture capital funding—and eyebrows from curious onlookers—as their semiautonomous, cooler-sized robots rolled onto college campuses and communities in recent years. University campuses started out as prime locations to test this technology. ...
“It was horrible,” said Jarred Kessler, CEO of EasyKnock, who came down with Covid-19 while raising a $20 million Series B this spring. Summoning all of his strength and conviction, Kessler said he pressed on with negotiations and investors’ due diligence in late March without letting on that he was sick. The round closed in June. “Now I can look back and say, ‘From my bedroom, with Covi...
Buildout, commercial real estate's premier brokerage software company, announced today that they secured a new investing partner in The Riverside Company.
Hippo, an insurtech startup focused on providing home insurance digitally, announced this morning a massive $150 million Series E round at a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion. With the latest round, the Palo Alto-based company has now raised a total of $359 million since its 2015 inception. Hippo reached unicorn status ($1 billion valuation) in July 2019 with a $100 million Ser...