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  • Germany’s Homelike, an Airbnb-like service focused on longer-term rentals, raises $14M led by Spark

    TECHCRUNCH

    The success of Airbnb has created a major disruption in how people choose where to stay when they visit other places. Gone are the days of assuming a hotel is the best or only option; a selection of private accommodations might prove to be more interesting, cheaper and more flexible. Now, an Airbnb-like startup out of Germany called Homelike — which focuses on rentals of a month or more, often for business but also other customers — has raised $14 million to expand its business to more of Europe…

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  • Solar on water, robots, and 2-sided panels, oh my: solar tech’s near future

    VOX

    Back in 2008, when the US was deploying less than 300 megawatts a year of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, and the boom in solar was but a gleam in President Barack Obama’s eye, it was very much an open question which solar technology might triumph in the end, or if any of them would triumph at all….

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  • San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

    WSJ

    San Francisco dealt a blow to the largest shared-scooter companies on Thursday, awarding two smaller startups exclusive rights to rent the electric-powered vehicles for a year in a decision that could change the course of the nascent market.

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  • As Real Estate Tech Investments Rise, Here Are The Tools To Watch

    FORBES

    Investment in real estate technology is at an all-time high. In 2017 alone, venture capital firms invested nearly $13 billion in the space. And with a number of new VCs now specializing in the arena (Camber Creek, MetaProp and Fifth Wall, to name a few), that number’s only going to rise in the coming years….

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  • Moody’s is buying CRE data firm Reis in a $278M deal

    THE REAL DEAL

    Moody’s is buying Reis, the commercial real estate data company, in a deal valued at $278 million. The financial services company best known for its credit ratings is paying all cash to acquire Reis and incorporate its data archive of some 18 million properties into Moody’s Analytics offerings, Globe Street reported.

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  • Scooter startups hit roadblocks as cities get smarter about new forms of transportation

    GEEKWIRE

    If 2011 was the year of the ride-hailing app, then 2018 is the year of the scooter. But in the seven years since Uber began launching in cities without permission, regulators have learned an important lesson: it’s better to play offense than defense. There’s no better example of the shifting dynamic between city officials and transportation tech companies than Seattle.

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  • Where does real estate tech come from?

    YOUTUBE

    Nick Rancis at Fraunhofer’s TechBridge program will share how they bring the most promising ideas from the lab to the market.

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  • High-end rental startup comes out of stealth to take on Airbnb

    PITCHBOOK

    It’s not a hotel room. It’s not an Airbnb. It’s a … Sonder? A hospitality startup that you’ve probably never heard of has announced $85 million in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to $135 million. Sonder has been quietly operating a vacation rental network for the past four years, and it’s officially coming out of stealth with the funding announcement. Greenoaks Capital led the latest round, with participation from Greylock, Spark Capital, Structure Capital and Harbourvest….

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  • Andreessen Horowitz is switching up the way it raises funds

    PITCHBOOK

    In 2011, Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen wrote an essay for The Wall Street Journal called “Why Software Is Eating The World.” In the article, he explained why his then-two-year-old venture capital firm was putting its cash in big software companies like Facebook, Twitter and Skype: “We believe that many of the prominent new Internet companies are building real, high-growth, high-margin, highly defensible businesses.”…

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  • Construction Tech Startup IngeniousIO Brings in $4M To Build Out Product, Sales Team

    CRUNCHBASE

    Construction management software startup IngeniousIO has locked in $4M of funding in a round led by American Family Ventures. The premise behind the Chicago-based company is the belief that construction workflows are fragmented, especially for a $10 trillion industry built on collaboration. The use of a variety of disparate point solutions only exacerbates the problem, according to IngeniousIO Founder and CEO Nick Carter….

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