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  • Industries, Looking for Efficiency, Turn to Blockchains

    NY TIMES

    If some financial institutions had used blockchains before the last recession, we may not have had one. After all, banks sometimes didn’t know which company’s books held bad mortgages, and a blockchain is essentially a single time-stamped ledger transparent to all its users. Since that time, companies in a wide variety of industries, such as health care, government, food, supply chain management and trade finance, have begun exploring blockchain technology. The problems they’re trying to solv…

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  • Bird has officially raised a whopping $300M as the scooter wars heat up

    TECHCRUNCH

    And there we have it: Bird, one of the emerging massively hyped Scooter startups, has roped in its next pile of funding by picking up another $300 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital. The company announced the long-anticipated round this morning, with Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joining the company’s board of directors. This is the second round of funding that Bird has raised over the span of a few months, sending it from a reported $1 billion valuation in May to a $2 billion valuation by t…

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  • HqO Brings Tech-Enabled Amenities and Experiences to Tenant Communities in Urban-Suburban Offices

    HqO

    Tenant Experience Platform Launches with National Development, Boylston Properties, and The Bulfinch Companies, Inc. at Commercial Real Estate Properties Outside of Boston Thursday, June 28, 2018 — Boston, MA — HqO, a tenant experience platform for commercial real estate, today announced that it launched with three new landlords at office properties totaling 1.2M square feet in the Boston area. On the heels of launching at Jamestown’s Innovation and Design Building in Boston’s Seaport neighbo…

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  • WeWork Debuts WeMRKT

    WEWORK

    When Icelandic Provisions considers new flavors, WeWork members often get to try them out first. The key lime flavor was a hit among members and eventually made it onto supermarket shelves. But rhubarb didn’t make the grade. “That feedback actually really helps us in terms of product development,” says Molly Peterson, the company’s director of communications. That’s why Peterson is so excited to be a part of the newly launched WeMRKT, which will allow Icelandic Provisions to get its yogurt…

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  • Guest Blog – The death of The Firm?

    CRETech

    By: Poonam Mathis, Founder of StealthForce  It’s important to be a geek about your business, and as an entrepreneur I take that responsibility seriously, which is how I know that in 1937, while Amelia Earhart was disappearing over the ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge was having its grand opening, a guy named Ronald Coase published “The Nature of The Firm”. Coase made the case that the only reason why firms need to exist is if there are economic benefits (lower organization costs, increased prec…

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  • Siemens Acquires 3 Smart Building Startups In 2 Months

    BISNOW

    Siemens Building Technologies Division has inked a deal to acquire Building Robotics Inc., an Oakland-based company whose app Comfy gives office workers greater control of their personal environment, especially temperature and lighting. The deal is the third recent acquisition of smart building tech startups by the German tech conglomerate Siemens AG, Forbes reports. Last month, the company bought Enlightened Inc. and J2 Innovations, both of whose products are also focused on smart, Internet …

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  • Startups Front Cash to Homebuyers in Bidding Wars

    BLOOMBERG

    It’s not always easy for consumers to get a mortgage quickly, but money is abundant for companies that want to step into the homebuying process. The most active real estate broker in the Pacific Northwest this year is a former Microsoft Corp. program manager who used to work on Bing. Tushar Garg isn’t the typical salesman walking would-be buyers through carefully staged houses. He’s co-founder of FlyHomes Inc., a three-year-old real estate brokerage in Seattle that promises to turn its client…

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  • As More Investors Buy Into Co-Living, Starcity Seeks New Opportunities

    BISNOW

    Starcity recently secured funding from crowdfunding platform EquityMultiple for its latest co-living location in San Francisco, signaling a shift in investor appetites for co-living, a concept many investors have shied away from. The company has raised more than $20M in venture financing within the last 18 months from the likes of Bullpen Capital, NEA, Social Capital and Y Combinator, and has struck deals with institutional real estate partners to participate in some of Starcity’s larger prop…

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  • CREtech and ATYPICAL Announce Joint Venture To Provide Expert Marketing Solutions For Real Estate Tech Companies

    THE NEWS FUNNEL

    NEW YORK, June 21, 2018 – ATYPICAL, a leader in real estate sales marketing and strategy and CREtech, the leading commercial real estate platform, have announced a joint venture to deliver content marketing, sales marketing, and strategy services specific for commercial real estate technology businesses. Working together, the two platforms have built a complete end-to-end sales marketing platform to support the growth of commercial real estate technology companies.

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  • WeWork Might Dominate The Headlines But It’s Only A Teeny Tiny Part Of The Booming Flexible Office Market

    BISNOW

    WeWork only has to sneeze to grab the headlines — it is one of the most talked-about companies in global real estate today. But it makes up only a very small proportion of the London and U.K. flexible office market. In fact, according to a new report, big names like IWG, WeWork and The Office Group make up a far smaller part of this growing market than you might imagine, as is the case in other major markets like the U.S. Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/london/news/office/wework-might-do…

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