John Ensign, President and Chief Legal Officer at MRI Software to Speak on Mergers & Acquisitions Panel at Upcoming CREtech Austin Conference

New York, NY (March 3rd, 2020) —CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, will be showcasing a panel of the most active companies in the real estate tech M&A space at its first event in 2020. To be held in Austin, Texas on April 22nd and 23rd, the panel will feature John Ensign, President and Chief Legal Officer at MRI Software, one of the leaders in the sector

Eric Roseman, VP of Technology & Innovation, LPC Ventures to Deliver Presentation on LPC Ventures Innovation Strategies at Upcoming CREtech Austin Conference

New York, NY (March 2, 2020) —CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the built world, has  announced that Eric Roseman, VP of Technology & Innovation at LPC Ventures, and one of the most respected and leading commercial real estate developers and managers in the sector, will be one of the featured speakers in Austin, Texas on April 22nd and 23rd. In a session titled “LPC Ventures: Going from Pilot to Partnership to Investor”, Eric w…

Veev Raises $97M To Date

Veev Group Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based integrated real estate developer, raised $97m to date and closed its Series B funding round. The round was co-led by Zeev Ventures and Lennar Ventures. The funding includes $85M in equity and $12M in debt and will be used to accelerate the development of the Veev panelized building system, as well as to scale the business. Additional participants in funding to date include Eclipse Ventures, Green Spring Associates and Khosla Ventures with Western Techno…

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Long term room-rental platform Badi launches its service in NYC

As things stand in many countries, renting houses and whole apartments is relatively straightforward, if you can afford it. But trying to find rooms in those apartments and houses to rent has been chaotic for many years and relies on hugely informal networks. Some startups have launched in recent years to address this problem of finding roommates and rooms for rent as the market becomes more competitive.

Surprise: WeWork’s CMBS Exposure Still Growing, Reaches $5.6B

WeWork battled extreme turbulence in 2019 after a failed IPO and a flurry of negative headlines, but, to the surprise of some analysts, that didn’t stop properties leased by the coworking giant from being used as collateral for billions of dollars worth of securitized mortgages in the last few months.

Inside ‘Amazon Go Grocery’: Tech giant opens first full-sized store without cashiers or checkout lines

Amazon Go is going full grocery. Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” store in Seattle on Tuesday morning, enlarging the footprint for surveillance-style shopping and signaling a larger challenge to the broader world of brick-and-mortar retail. The debut is also the answer to a longstanding mystery about the 7,700-square-foot space, at 610 E. Pike Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. …

Staples is opening podcast studios in six Boston stores

Staples’ latest ploy to get people into its retail stores is podcast recording booths. This week, the podcasting company Spreaker announced that it’s part of a collaboration bringing recording spaces to six Staples stores in the Boston area. The booths are part of a new Staples Connect model, in which the retail stores offer coworking and community event spaces.

The Flexible Office Economy w/ Mark Gilbreath, CEO LiquidSpace Podcast

Join host Mark Gilbreath for “THE FLEXIBLE OFFICE ECONOMY” a weekly dive into the fast moving waters of flexible office, coworking, mobility, workplace experience and commercial real estate,  featuring candid conversations with innovators and leaders from across the Flexible Office Economy.