Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
BISNOW
The fastest-growing co-living company is coming to one of Philadelphia’s hottest development spots. Quarters, the co-living subsidiary of German firm Medici Living Group, announced on Monday that the second project in its latest expansion phase, and first outside of New York and Chicago, is coming to 1150 North American St. on the northwest edge of Northern Liberties.
BUSINESS INSIDER
Sam Altman will step down as president of the storied startup incubator Y Combinator, according to a company blog post on Friday. Altman will remain in a chairman role at YC, but his day-to-day duties will be relinquished to other other partners. According to the post, the transition will help Altman focus on the non-profit AI research company OpenAI, which he cofounded with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Musk recently stepped down at OpenAI, citing potential conflicts of interest with Tesla’s bud…
FORBES
There are very few female venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and even fewer who are mothers. Patricia Nakache is a rare venture capitalist who embraces motherhood in this male-dominated space. The former consultant and journalist joined Trinity Ventures 20 years ago after interviewing the founders. Nakache has invested in hundreds of companies and she has leveraged her experience as a mother to help grow some of the biggest household brands that cater to the mommy market such as Care.com and …
LIVLY
Livly has created the operating system for physical spaces, giving control of a property’s digital environment, reputation and associated revenue back to property owners and managers, while providing renters with a unified digital rental experience CHICAGO, IL., [March 12, 2019] – Today, Livly,the creator of the operating system for physical spaces, announced its official company launch, bringing to market a modern approach to the multi-family rental experience, backed by $10 million of seed f…
COMMERCIAL OBSERVER
Everybody needs a cheerleader, and for commercial real estate technology, that’s Michael Beckerman. Some 30 years ago, Beckerman entered commercial real estate when he started his own PR agency, Beckerman PR—which has repped the likes of Avison Young, CBRE, JLL and CoStar—but he has since left for the choppy waters of technology. After starting his own real estate news aggregator, his latest project, CREtech, is bringing tech to the ever-obstinate commercial real estate sector.
CREtech
Second Annual Exclusive C-Level Retreat For Commercial Real Estate Tech Sector Will Feature Three World-Renowned Experts on Data, Work and Demographic Trends Impacting The Industry New York, NY (March 12, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announces their second annual Trailblazers Summit, the most extraordinary and exclusive event organized for the commercial real estate technology sector. Attracting …
WSJ
Two European firms are backing an ambitious $2.5 billion project to carry renewable electricity underground through the American heartland. Siemens AG SIEGY 0.73% is joining with a Danish investment fund to build and operate a 349-mile-long, electrical-transmission line that would carry wind and solar energy from Iowa into the Chicago area, according to the project’s developer. The link would allow renewable energy from the Upper Midwest to travel all the way into the eastern U.S. by hooking…
VENTUREBEAT
With autonomous vehicles already debuting on our roads and in our airspace, you’ve probably grown accustomed to the idea of a new future for mobility. But what you may not have wrapped your head around yet is that these vehicles could create a whole new marketplace that makes transportation safer, greener, and more efficient. Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), a nonprofit consortium that counts the majority of the world’s large automakers as members, including BMW, GM, and Ford, as w…
OKAPI
Okapi is excited to announce the inclusion of a new external data source to enrich existing business datasets for its customers. This external data source is combined with datasets provided by the customer, for finding anomalies, root-cause and predictions. The external data source announced today is the weather API. This includes temperature, humidity, snowfall, wind factor, and even location-sensitive metrics such as sea level for buildings found on the coast.
GLOBEST
NEW YORK CITY—In stacking up his company to WeWork, Knotel’s co-founder and CEO Amol Sarva says, “In San Francisco we just passed them in number of locations. In New York we have three times as many locations. In Paris we have four times as many locations.” The company is quickly growing, including its acquisition of the Paris-based Deskeo. However, CoStar states that “based on research verified data for all of New York City, Knotel has 58 locations and WeWork has 81.” In addition, CoStar notes …
Subscribe to CREtech to get our monthly newsletter curated by our editors and special event discounts and announcements.
or sign in if you're already a member