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  • New “tech-driven” commercial brokerage coming to Queens

    THEREALDEAL

    Queens is getting a new tech-driven brokerage. Commercial real estate broker Michael Wang, who co-chairs the real estate committee at the Queens Chamber of Commerce, announced the launch of Project Queens last week. The brokerage will focus solely on commercial real estate in Queens. A representative for the brokerage said its technologies include the use of geofencing data to analyze market demographics and find development opportunities, digital displays on properties to increase engagement an…

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  • Perch, now called Orchard, raises $36M to simplify home buying and selling

    TECHCRUNCH

    Perch, the vertically integrated platform for buying and selling homes, has today announced the close of a $36 million equity round led by Navitas, with participation from existing investor FirstMark Capital, Juxtapose and Accomplice. The company is also announcing that it is rebranding from Perch to Orchard. Orchard launched in September of 2017 with a plan to bring the full home selling and buying experience under one roof. Most home buyers are what the industry calls ‘dual trackers,’ which me…

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  • At SoftBank’s Jewel in India: ‘Toxic’ Culture and Troubling Incidents

    NYTIMES

    Oyo, a start-up that offers budget hotel rooms, has grown into one of India’s most valuable private companies and aims to be the world’s largest hotel chain by 2023. But at least part of Oyo’s rise in India was built on practices that raise questions about the health of its business, according to financial filings, court documents and interviews with 20 current and former employees, as well as others familiar with the start-up’s operations. Many spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of re…

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  • Pushing New Boundaries… Personally and Professionally

    CRETech

    “Infinite learner” is a concept that has always driven me. This philosophy helped to consistently push me outside of my own comfort zone into new territories. It has provided me with a lifetime of growth opportunities, both personally and professionally. And it has served me incredibly well  as I have traveled further than I ever imagined in so many ways.   And, when I say “further”, I mean in ways that have helped me grow as a person through valuable, often painful, lessons that I wa…

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  • HomeLane Raises $30M in Series D Funding

    FINSMES

    HomeLane, a Bangalore, India-based furniture company, raised $30m in Series D funding. The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $46m, was led by Evolvence India Fund (EIF), Pidilite Group and FJ Labs with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and JSW Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach to other cities as well as to extend its development efforts.

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  • Google’s Parent Company Designing Automated Warehouse Technology

    BISNOW

    A sister company of Google has new ideas about how to automate distribution centers. X Development, the experiment and idea-focused subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet Inc., filed two patent applications at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the past week, Supply Chain Dive reports. Both applications describe robots designed to analyze the position of items in a warehouse and, if need be, rearrange them to maximize storage space. One application, filed on Jan. 2, is for a group of robots c…

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  • The year of WeWork could reshape the IPO market in 2020

    PITCHBOOK

    For VCs, 2019 was a year filled with more high-profile public offerings than ever before. But as 2020 begins, it’s the unicorn IPO that didn’t happen—the one that instead turned into a truly spectacular failure—that’s still on the tip of everyone’s tongue. The collapse of WeWork shook up Silicon Valley, and it will likely mean elevated levels of scrutiny for any unicorn that’s planning to go public in 2020, a list that could include names like Airbnb, DoorDash and GitLab. Taken as a whole, th…

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  • Why Tech Firms Will Focus on Profitability Over Growth in 2020

    GLOBEST

    WeWork’s crash last year was a sign of what is to come for technology companies. Venture capital funds—whether due to WeWork, the handful or failed tech IPOs in 2019 or simply changing market trends—will now want evidence of profitability, not just growth and market share. This is a turnaround for tech companies, which have focused on rapid growth and expansion first. “Venture capital will no longer fund these continuous losses any more. They will stop funding these companies until they see a…

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  • Platform Allows Investors to Compare QOZ Investments

    GLOBEST

    Realized, a tech platform that provides investment property wealth management, recently introduced its Qualified Opportunity Zone marketplace. The marketplace is a new platform that allows investors to compare Qualified Opportunity Zone/QOZ investments and provide greater access to a broader selection of QOZ investment funds. The launch represents the firm’s latest move to integrate modern portfolio theory into the real estate investing industry, helping investors to maximize after-tax risk-adju…

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  • You’re Home Alone With Alexa. Are Your Secrets Safe?

    BLOOMBERG

    Privacy at home is something most people take for granted. But the home has become the latest frontier in data harvesting for big tech companies. Smart speakers, app-activated thermostats and internet-connected everything else are scooping up information that could prove valuable to product designers, advertisers, governments and law enforcement. A range of interest groups, from civil liberties organizations to consumer advocates and children’s privacy watchdogs, worry about an erosion of privac…

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