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  • What Startups are doing better than anyone in CRE…

    CRETech

    Marketing! As someone who has been in the marketing and PR space for commercial real estate for a long, long time, I have been bewildered by the lack of innovation in the sector for the past decade. It’s the same old banner ads, PR, email campaigns and more. Blah! But for the past seven years in the CREtech sector, I am starting to get excited again about the amazing innovation taking place in the commercial real estate marketing arena. And it’s coming from startups! Things like thoughtfu…

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  • Blockchain Investment Accelerates Into 2018

    CRETech

    If money talks, it’s saying venture capitalists see real potential for blockchain technology across industries. Nearly halfway into the year, VCshave poured $1.3 billion into blockchain companies, more money than the total for 2017. Commercial real estate applications are clear: property title management, pre-lease due diligence process, payment processing, and lease management are a few areas standing to benefit from blockchain application. The transparency and cost-saving disruption that could…

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  • Heads up! Amazon wins a patent for robotic arms that toss warehouse items

    GEEKWIRE

    BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives. Robots are nothing new for Amazon’s fulfillment centers, but a newly issued Amazon patent envisions robots that could toss items around those centers. The 27-page patent, published Tuesday, describes robotic arms or manipulators that can use sensors to identify objects, figure out how best to…

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  • Flat-fee real estate startup Reali raises $20 million to expand beyond California

    HOUSINGWIRE

    Reali, a flat-fee real estate startup that boasts it can sell a house in the San Francisco area for as little as $950, is planning to expand into Southern California and beyond, thanks to a $20 million injection of funding. Reali announced this week that it raised $20 million in a Series B round of funding. That brings the company’s total capital raise to $30 million. Last year, the company raised approximately $10 million. Currently, Reali operates in Sacramento and Solano counties, and t…

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  • Investors Pour $1.05 Billion Into Construction Tech Startups

    DREAMIT

    According to a new report published by commercial real estate giant JLL, VCs invested $1.05 billion in global construction technology startups in the first half of 2018, a record high. 2018’s investment volume is already up nearly 30 percent over the 2017 total. These startups are helping to deliver projects more quickly, to reduce the amount of resources being consumed, to make worksites safer, to increase coordination among stakeholders in the projects, and to provide new data sources for proj…

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  • The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise

    TECH CRUNCH

    The blockchain is in the middle of a major hype cycle at the moment, and that makes it hard for many people to take it seriously, but if you look at the core digital ledger technology, there is tremendous potential to change the way we think about trust in business. Yet these are still extremely early days and there are a number of missing pieces that need to be in place for the blockchain to really take off in the enterprise. Suffice it to say that it has caught the fancy of major enterprise…

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  • Tech set to disrupt the construction industry

    JLL

    The construction industry continues to tackle the challenges of rising construction materials costs, a skilled labor shortage and overall lack of productivity improvements, offering an expansive opportunity for disruption. Which means there’s a new darling for venture capitalists as they funnel an unprecedented amount of capital into Construction Technology. A massive amount–$1.05 Billion—that’s the record number venture capitalists invested in global construction technology (ConTech) startup…

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  • Fundrise launches $500M Opportunity Zones fund

    THE REAL DEAL

    A crowdfunding startup is launching a $500 million investment fund to focus on developments in distressed areas that the federal government has made eligible for generous tax break. Washington, D.C.-based Fundrise plans to start its Fundrise Opportunity Fund next week. It wants to raise its target amount by the end of 2019, according to Bloomberg. The company specializes in small investments, with the minimum investment for the fund set at $10,000….

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  • Swivel Raises $4.75 Million Seed Round Led by First Round Capital

    SWIVEL

    AUSTIN, Texas, July. 18, 2018 —Swivel, a new online service where fast-growing companies can find and design their own plug-and-play workspace and pay for it on flexible terms, has raised a $4.75 Million seed round led by First Round Capital and from other leading firms including Fuel Capital, Correlation Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Hack VC, Capital Factory and Abstract Ventures. Existing investors Floodgate and Next Coast Ventures also participated in this round. The company will use…

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  • Midwest rising Midwestern success stories show that innovation ecosystems are taking root in the heartland

    TECH CRUNCH

    Update: This post has been updated to indicate that Edison Partners is close to closing on its ninth fund with at least $300 million. Emerging venture capital firms in smaller American cities from Indianapolis to Princeton, NJ are attracting increasingly larger funding as investors see opportunities for returns beyond the coastal confines of the nation’s largest cities and the innovation epicenter of Silicon Valley. For the last four years, AOL co-founder Steve Case has been criss-crossing…

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