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  • WhyHotel raises $20 million to bring pop-up hotel rooms to cities across the U.S.

    VENTUREBEAT

    Airbnb has emerged as the single greatest disruptor of the $500 billion hotel industry over the past decade, and with the peer-to-peer home rental giant gearing up to go public in 2020, a slew of startups have gotten in on the “alternative lodging” action. One of those companies is WhyHotel, a Washington, D.C.-based startup that operates pop-up hotels in newly built “luxury” apartment buildings. The company today announced that it has raised $20 million in a series B round of funding led by Harb…

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  • Katerra closing Phoenix modular building facility, laying off 200 workers

    CONSTRUCTIONDIVE

    Katerra will close its 250,000-square-foot modular building “component and finish” factory in Phoenix and lay off 200 workers this month, a company representative confirmed. In addition, co-founder Fritz Wolff stepped down from his position as a member of the Menlo Park, California-based firm’s board earlier this month, to “concentrate on other professional pursuits.”

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  • Sevan Multi-Site Solutions Raises $17.5M in Series A Funding

    FINSMES

    Sevan Multi-Site Solutions, Inc., a Downers, IL-based global leader in data analytics, surveys, design, program management and construction services, closed a $17.5m Series A funding. The round was led by ABS Capital Partners. As a result of the minority investment by ABS Capital Partners, Managing General Partner Phil Clough will join the Sevan board of directors. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and business offerings, as well as to develop new technology. Founded in 2…

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  • WeWork Is in Talks to Sell Business It Bought 8 Months Ago

    BLOOMBERG

    WeWork is in talks to sell Managed by Q Inc., a business it owned for about eight months, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal may help the troubled office-sharing company raise cash and refocus on its main business. A group of investors and executives, including Managed by Q co-founder and former Chairman Dan Teran, is trying to buy the business back from WeWork, the people said. Discussions are progressing and WeWork is actively pursuing a resolution, said the people, who…

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  • How Proptech Can Attract Generation C

    GLOBEST

    Patrick Gasior, senior channel sales manager at Velis Real Estate Tech, describes the digital natives now entering the job market as Generation C (Gen C) for their ability to connect, communicate and change. While these three skills offer a lot of opportunities for employers, this generation also bring challenges. “They expect to have the same technology and communication environment in their workplace as they do at home,” Gasior says. “Without it, they feel alienated from the world they know so…

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  • Five Cities Account for Vast Majority of Growth in Tech Jobs, Study Finds

    WSJ

    The forces that are driving the nation’s top technology talent to just a handful of cities have intensified in recent years, leaving much of the nation behind as the U.S. becomes a more digital economy, according to a new study. Just five metropolitan areas—Boston; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; and San Jose, Calif.—accounted for 90% of all U.S. high-tech job growth between 2005 to 2017, according to the research by think-tank scholars Mark Muro and Jacob Whiton of the Brookings Institution …

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  • Beyond The Bio: 16 Questions With Vero Technologies Founder And CEO Lou Baugier

    BISNOW

    Lou Baugier is getting physical in the scrum of real estate technology. The former All-American rugby player founded Vero Technologies in 2017 to streamline the multifamily rental process. The Brooklyn-based fintech company says it has reduced the time it takes to assess renter qualification and generate a lease by 99%, automating a process that typically takes days. This year has been a good one for the 29-year-old founder: Vero completed a nearly $3M seed round and Baugier was named one of Com…

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  • Cristiano Radaelli, Planet Smart City, looks at the role of sustainable, tech-enabled housing in future cities.

    SMARTCITIESWORLD

    Over the past decade, several global trends have combined to drive noticeable shifts in how people live. These include the increasing urbanisation of global populations; the introduction of artificial intelligence, robotics and IoT devices; environmental factors; population growth in Africa, Asia and Latin America; and the rising purchasing power of the middle classes within developing countries. A 2015 United Nations (UN) report noted that 68 per cent of the world’s population is expected to li…

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  • Cosmose AI raises $12 million to track brick-and-mortar purchasing habits

    VENTUREBEAT

    Keeping abreast of shopping trends online is straightforward enough — whole categories of startups achieve this with predictive modeling. But what about when that shopping takes place in-store? Tracking the behaviors of mall, outlet, and department store shoppers is of critical importance to physical store brands, particularly considering that the percentage of brick-and-mortar sales increased by 2% from $2.99 trillion in 2016 to $3.04 trillion in 2017.

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  • Round Hill Ventures Gathers Europe’s Proptech Leaders In A New Series of Events

    BUSINESSLEADER

    The European proptech venture capital firm’s pilot ‘PropTech Connect’ panel brought together some of the key players across the real estate ecosystem to discuss ‘scaling’. Access to information, open communication and barriers to innovation within the traditional real estate industry emerged as core themes. At a company level, Tushar Agarwal, co-founder of London’s largest marketplace for office space HubbleHQ, found existing processes and communication channels stopped working as his organisati…

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