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  • PropTech: A look at ‘what comes next’ in CRE

    THENEWSFUNNEL

    It’s not news that industry is in the midst of a massive, technology-driven disruption. The word itself — disruption — is overused to the point of cliché. Executives, finance professionals, workers lower down the totem pole with justifiable worries that they’ll soon be supplanted by algorithms or black-box AI — all care not so much about the “why” of disruption as the “what comes next.” In commercial real estate, “what comes next” is, in a word, “a lot.” According to a July 2019 report from C…

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  • Houston startup incubator combines with major Austin accelerator

    BIZJOURNAL

    Station Houston, one of the city’s most prominent startup incubators, is combining with Austin-based Capital Factory LLC, one of the Lone Star State’s top startup accelerators. The deal is effective immediately, according to a Jan. 28 news release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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  • Andreessen Horowitz leads funding round for self-storage startup

    THEREALDEAL

    In an age of sharing space, you can make money off just about anything: Your house is on Airbnb. Your car is on Turo. You can even rent out your swimming pool on Swimply. And now, if you have a spare room in the garage, or even a closet, you can make money off that too.

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  • Industrious to take 100K sf at Vornado’s One Penn Plaza

    THEREALDEAL

    Industrious, a flexible-workspace company, plans to open a 100,000-square-foot space at the bottom of One Penn Plaza. The space will be split between about 80,000 square feet of flexible office space and 20,000 square feet of conference and event space on the first three floors of the Vornado Realty Trust property, according to Crain’s.

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  • Bank of America Tower Ranks Second in Fitwel-Rated Buildings

    GLOBEST

    The Bank of America Tower recently received a three-star rating from Fitwel, a certification system for optimizing building design and operations to support human health and well-being. The development ranks at the top of Fitwel’s certification scale, earning three out of three stars to become the first and largest project in Texas–at 775,000 square feet–to be recognized under the latest standard, according to development and construction firm Skanska.

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  • More Knight Frank seniors jump ship to Rentify

    THENEGOTIATOR

    The brain drain from Knight Frank to growing property management platform Rentify continues. The platform, which in October poached Knight Frank high flier Lucy Jones, was established in 2011 and has so far received some £8 million in funding. But three more Knight Frank seniors have now also joined the lettings agency. The first is Giles Barrett, a former Partner at Knight Frank, who has joined Rentify after a spell heading up Knight Frank’s South Kensington office. Second is Mathew Hahn who…

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  • Demo Day 2019 Highlights: Colliers Proptech Accelerator Powered by Techstars

    YOUTUBE

    Hundreds of industry professionals, investors and technology leaders were on hand to watch 10 pitches from the Colliers Proptech Accelerator Powered by Techstars Class of 2019. Check out our recap of Demo Day 2019!

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  • Capmo raises €5 million in bid to become Europe’s go-to operating system for construction sites

    TECHEU

    Capmo, a Munich-based digital construction software, has secured a €5 million Series A, led by Capnamic Ventures and angels from Munich’s Center for Digital Technology and Management network. Existing investors UVC Partners and HW Capital also participated. The German startup has created a cloud-based SaaS tool that serves as an operating system for construction sites. Legacy construction software is highly complex and built for desktop use, so for many site managers, it’s inaccessible in mor…

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  • Construction startup Scaled Robotics raises a €2M seed round

    TECHCRUNCH

    Industrial robots are expensive. But, then, so are construction mistakes. Being off by an inch here or there adds up quickly, and too often crews need to correct costly errors. There’s a reason construction has become the next great target of the robotics and automation industries, with a number of startups vying to create solutions that can constantly monitor sites to detect mistakes before it’s too late.

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  • Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong

    NYTIMES

    Poised on a cliff above First Avenue, Tudor City was conceived during the 1920s by the storied developer Fred F. French as a high-rise community for thousands of middle-class residents. A century later, it remains a throwback to the early glamour days of skyscraper living: a dozen brick towers fancifully decorated with half-timbered lobbies, stone crests and other mock-Tudor details.

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