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  • Industrious Partners With Granite Properties for First Glendale Location

    COMMERCIAL OBSERVER

    Industrious has teamed up with Granite Properties to open a coworking space at 500 North Brand Boulevard in Glendale, according to a release from Industrious. Per the management agreement, Industrious will oversee 24,000 square feet of vacant space in the Los Angeles County building dubbed 500@TheBrand, totaling the entire 20th floor and half of the 21st floor of the 23-story property in the central business district, which is slated to open next June….

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  • Qualcomm Ventures launches $100 million AI fund

    VENTUREBEAT

    Qualcomm Ventures today announced the creation of AI Fund, a program to invest up to $100 million in promising startups. The news was shared by global head of Qualcomm Ventures Quinn Li and CEO Steven Mollenkopf in a presentation in San Francisco. The fund’s first investment was made in AnyVision, a computer vision and facial recognition software company.

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  • Tokenization Platform Harbor Makes First Offering

    BISNOW

    Convexity Properties announced Tuesday it is using the Harbor platform for a tokenized REIT offering in The Hub at Columbia, an off-campus student housing high-rise near the University of South Carolina. The offering represents $20M of private equity in the 14-story, 500K SF facility. It has 260 apartment units and more than 800 beds, as well as 4K SF of street-level retail and 6K SF of leased commercial space.

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  • VTS announces the VTS marketplace, the industry’s only end-to-end commercial real estate marketplace powered by 9 Billion SF of real-time data

    VIEW THE SPACE

     Built on the industry’s #1 leasing and asset management platform, the VTS marketplace will provide the infrastructure for landlords, agency brokers, tenant reps, and tenants to complete large and small-scale leases online.  New York, NY — November 28, 2018 — In a first for the global commercial real estate (CRE) industry, VTS, the leading leasing and asset management platform for CRE, today unveiled its plans for the VTS marketplace.With over nine billion square feet and nearly one-in-three o…

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  • WeWork expanding at 2 Herald Square

    THE REAL DEAL

    WeWork is expanding in the Midtown office building where it is hosting Amazon. The co-working provider signed a 60,000-square-foot lease expansion at 2 Herald Square, the company told The Real Deal. The additional space covers the fifth and sixth floors and is expected to open in 2020. The company currently occupies 124,000 square feet in the 11-story building.

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  • 31 Tech Predictions for 2019

    INC

    Predicting the future is hardly an exact science, but when you watch an industry closely it is possible to identify trends and chart a course for where things are likely headed. Here are predictions made by 31 successful executives who believe they can see what will be different in 2019….

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  • How Europe’s cities are embracing flexible space

    JLL REAL VIEWS

    As more companies of all shapes and sizes choose turn to flexible space – whether its hot-desking areas in buildings they already occupy or taking space in independently owned coworking set-ups – it’s fast becoming part of modern working life and a small but increasingly significant part of Europe’s office markets.

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  • Through All the Hype, Self-Driving Cars Remain Elusive

    NY TIMES

    The relentlessly hyped arrival of autonomous vehicles looms as the greatest disruption in personal transportation since Henry Ford’s moving assembly line started producing Model T’s by the millions. One word in that statement — arrival — is, however, doing a disproportionate amount of work.

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  • The top 10 VC investors in European proptech

    PITCHBOOK

    Earlier this month, Nested, an online real estate agency which provides cash advances to help buyers purchase new homes before selling their old ones, hauled in £120 million in funding from investors including Northzone and Balderton Capital. This was the largest round the company has raised, and it’s also by far the biggest VC investment of the past five years in a European startup focused on real estate technology—or as it is increasingly being referred to, proptech….

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  • High-End Coworking Provider NeueHouse Raises $30M, Hires New CEO

    BISNOW

    Members-only and often star-studded coworking provider NeueHouse has raised $30M from private investors to kick-start its expansion at a time when the coworking sector is growing increasingly competitive. Investors included InterActiveCorp. and Expedia Chairman and Senior Executive Barry Diller, who also made an $8M bet on the company last year.

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