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  • Foxtrot Announces $6M Series A Led by Fifth Wall

    Foxtrot

    Next generation corner store to grow its online and offline experience in Chicago and nationally across residential, hotels and commercial CHICAGO, Illinois – March 15, 2018 – Foxtrot, the next generation corner store, announced today the closing of a $6 million Series A round of financing led by Fifth Wall, the largest venture capital firm focused on the Built World. With the new funds, Foxtrot will take its successful retail model and grow the team to support the expansion of its on-demand …

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  • Accelerating Real Estate Tech and Innovation Powered by Women at {HER}oic by CREtech

    CRETech

    On March 8th, and in honor of International Women’s Day, CREtech held its first annual {HER}oic event that was widely attended by both male and female professionals in the commercial real estate tech space. The event was created to celebrate and recognize the amazing female leaders and mentors in the commercial real estate tech industry. While the industry statistics have tech startups at 74% male and 26% female, here at CREtech, we are proud to be 75% female and 25% male. Held on the stunni…

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  • Office suite company leases 40,000 square feet on Sixth Avenue

    Crain’s

    NYC Office Suites has signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet at 1270 Sixth Ave., sources said. While companies like WeWork have popularized a model of shared, hip work spaces for millennial workers, NYC Office Suites occupies a more traditional segment of the rapidly expanding business of flexible office space for smaller tenants. The company carves up its spaces into typical offices for business executives and professional-services users. Sean Black, the founder of the brokerage firm B…

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  • Lightning Labs just raised millions from Jack Dorsey and others to supercharge blockchain transactions

    Techcrunch

    Lightning Labs, a young, Bay Area-based startup, is trying to make it easier for users to send bitcoin and litecoin to each other without the costly and time-consuming process of settling their transactions on the blockchain. It has investors excited about its work, too. The company is announcing today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to date from numerous big names in payments and beyond, including Square and Twitter co-founder Jack Do…

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  • Best Commercial Real Estate CRM Systems – 2018

    Digsy AI Blog

    Why does the quest for the best commercial real estate CRM's for 2018 matter? Well, think about everything you do to generate and close deals. You grind out cold calls, sprint across town for tours, skip lunch, stay up late, work weekends…. You work hard for your money – the least you could ask is that your CRM works hard too. Welp…. don’t hold your breath. If you haven’t taken your fury out on a poor computer because of useless commercial real estate CRM software, you’re probably reading t…

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  • At WeWork, family matters – and pays

    The Real Deal – New York

    In August 2015, Arash Gohari, co-founder of the real estate investment firm Xerxes Group, emailed friends and colleagues with some personal news.“I was approached recently by Adam Neumann of WeWork and asked to help him with the company's expansion on the real estate side,” he wrote in the email, which was reviewed by The Real Deal. “I will have the exciting mission of helping to grow the company by finding new buildings for WeWork to take space in.” Around two months after Gohari joined We…

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  • Warby Parker, the Eyewear Seller, Raises $75 Million

    NY Times

      A Warby Parker store in Manhattan. The company announced that it had raised $75 million in a new round of financing. Credit Deidre Schoo for The New York Times Warby Parker opened its website eight years ago and quickly became one of the inspirations for a generation of e-commerce brands aiming at a younger, hipper customer base. Now the eyewear retailer has raised another slug of money — with some coming from a big investor with a history of inves…

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  • Moving Into a New Apartment? There’s an App for That

    WSJ

    Updater Inc., a New York-based startup, has raised nearly $100 million for a service designed to simplify relocating After the exhilaration of signing a deal on a new apartment comes the panicky next step: moving one’s life and belongings, not to mention cable and internet service, to a new address. But when Meg Winslow, a life sciences researcher, moved to a studio on the West Side of Manhattan after relocating from California, she was able to set u…

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  • Walmart Expands Online Grocery Delivery to 100 Cities

    NY Times

    A Walmart store in Fulton, N.Y. Walmart said its home delivery service for groceries would be available to 40 percent of households in the United States by the end of the year. Credit Roger Kisby for The New York Times The path to fast and affordable online grocery service is littered with obstacles: refrigeration challenges, storage woes and high transportation costs, among others. But the country’s largest retailers are convinced that it will lead to a lucrativ…

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  • How Amazon Could Help WeWork Reinvent the Workplace

    Fortune

    This article first appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter on the top tech news. Sign up here. I recently noted, in a piece on the entertainment industry, that the word bundle has gotten a bad rap. Just because consumers have soured on their cable, newspaper, or department store bundles doesn’t mean they don’t like the concept. They love the Amazon delivery-plus-entertainment bundle, for example. Ditto Apple’s iCloud plus music. In enterprise…

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