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  • CREtech Announces New “CREtech Talk” Session On “The Anatomy Of A Smart Building” at Los Angeles Conference in March

    CREtech

    Navitas Capital’s Managing Partner, Travis Putnam, Will Present At The Largest Conference In Commercial Real Estate Tech Sector On The West Coast In 2019 New York, NY (March 7, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announced a new session to be presented by Travis Putnam, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Navitas Capital.  The session, “CREtech Talks: The Anatomy of a Smart Building” will be available to …

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  • Cherry lets startup employees choose their own office perks

    TECHCRUNCH

    Forget the office ping pong table, Cherry, a startup in Y Combinator’s latest batch, wants to let employees take company perks into their own hands. Cherry co-founders (and sisters) Gillian and Emily O’Brien say their Slackbot marketplace will let employees completely personalize the lifestyle benefits they get from their company, allowing them to set up a Spotify Premium account or buy a subscription to ClassPass instead of just taking what perks their company dishes out at face value….

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  • From Driverless Vehicle Tunnels To Mental Health, This New Lab Tackles Real Estate’s Big Questions

    BISNOW

    PLP, the architecture firm behind the Edge office building in Amsterdam and the Twentytwo skyscraper in the City of London, is launching a new business focusing on cutting-edge research into how people will use buildings and cities in the future. The business, PLP Labs, will undertake research in collaboration with partners from across multiple disciplines from the built environment and beyond, including neuroscientists, data and social scientists, tech companies and engineers.

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  • Buyer Beware: Hollywood Special Effects Now Permeate Property Listings

    WSJ

    Real-estate listing photos have always accentuated the positive, but computer-generated imagery of the sort Hollywood uses has now become so cheap and prolific that home sellers are taking out walls, removing ugly paneling and even adding digital swimming pools. At the same time, photos are more important than ever: Nearly every home search begins online and deals are often struck without in-person showings, particularly amonginvestors who are putting photos through their own algorithms to pr…

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  • Co-working sprouts in suburbia

    THE REAL DEAL

    When Jonathan Manierre and Ryan Doran decided they needed new digs for their growing ad and marketing agency, Turkois, the design duo contacted realtors and did a traditional office search. In the end, they settled on 2,500 square feet of storage space over a restaurant in White Plains, New York, and prepared to rent out parts of the space under the name KOI Creative Space. The idea of a co-working space spoke to their mutual desire for community and collaboration….

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  • VIRTUAL DEMO DAY

    CREtech

    Tune in to our live Virtual Demo Day webinar on March 13 to experience demos from the most innovative tech companies in commercial real estate. Virtual Demo Day is the best way to discover startups that you need to know about without leaving your desk. Plus, it’s FREE!

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  • Common Areas Launches First Customizable Platform

    GLOBEST

    Real Estate software company Common Areas has launched what they are calling the industry’s first “configurable” platform. The new cloud-based real estate operations platform can be tailored to a company’s needs, offering flexibility and increasing efficiency without disrupting a company’s current operations model. This is achieved through the platform by instantly syncing the company’s data, systems and people to create a truly digitally. …

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  • Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform

    TECHCRUNCH

    The growth of augmented and virtual reality applications and hardware is ushering in a new age of digital media and imaging technologies, and startups that are putting themselves at the center of that are attracting interest. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Matterport — which started out making cameras but has since diversified into a wider platform to capture, create, search and utilise 3D imagery of interior and enclosed spaces in immersive real estate, design, insurance and other B…

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  • Construction & Technology: Building for the Future

    NAVITAS CAPITAL

    Construction is a key industry across the world, representing approximately 13% of worldwide GDP or roughly $10 trillion in annual spend on construction-related goods and services. The sector employs over 7% of the world’s working population. Despite its relevance, the industry has struggled to evolve its approaches, and its productivity has suffered as a result. In fact, construction is one of the only industries that has experienced productivity losses over the last several decades.  One of ke…

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  • THE PROPTECH INDUSTRY IS SET FOR A WAVE OF CONSOLIDATION

    GOODWIN LAW

    PropTech – the convergence of real estate and technology – has effectively transitioned from disrupting the well-established real estate industry with trending tech to a burgeoning sector of start-ups and forward-looking real estate players introducing innovations that are quickly transforming the real estate marketplace. Driven by a few key dynamics, the PropTech industry appears on the verge of a wave of consolidation that will usher the next stage of evolution for the industry. Over the la…

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