CREtech Briefs May 13, 2022 - CRE Industry’s Power to Stop the Climate Crisis, The KPIs of the Office of the Future + More
Today's Headlines
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NEWS | UPFLEX
Q&A: CREtech’s Michael Beckerman on the CRE Industry’s Power to Stop the Climate Crisis
Upflex’s Christophe Garnier caught up with Michael Beckerman, CEO of CREtech — the largest global consulting, media and conference company devoted to technological innovation in real estate — about the real estate industry’s disproportionate impact on the climate crisis, and where he sees the biggest opportunities to
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NEWS | Bisnow
Nuveen's $15B Impact Investing Sector Launch Is Just The Start
Investment giant Nuveen Real Estate is planning to launch an impact investing sector targeting affordable and sustainable housing with supportive services for residents, according to the company.
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NEWS | Antony Slumbers
The KPIs of the Office of the Future
I’ve been reading much commentary recently on how to measure, to value, the modern office. Especially post Covid, as we clearly head into a world of distributed working, where the HQ is no longer the be all and end all of our working lives. Mostly
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NEWS | The Wall Street Journal
Colombian Real-Estate Startup Habi Gets $200 Million in Series C Round
Habi, a real-estate company that is trying to create a digital marketplace for home buyers and sellers in Latin America, has raised $200 million in a Series C funding round. The round was led by venture-capital firm Homebrew and SoftBank Latin America Fund. Though Habi
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NEWS | Commercial Observer
Real Estate Tech Legend John Gilbert On Data, CBRS and Carbon-Cutting
In January, John Gilbert, Rudin Management's chief technology officer and chief operating officer, retired from the company after 30 years. He’s not done, though. Gilbert, one of the pioneers of technology in real estate, remains executive chair of the Rudin-created proptech company Prescriptive Data. Its remit
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NEWS | PlaceTech
CREtech VIDEO | Germany’s market-leading real estate software hits the UK market
Sebastian Schuon, founder of Alasco, joins Paul Unger, editor of PlaceTech, to talk about how Alasco is digitising processes to maximise ROI and integrate ESG. Alasco is a cloud-based financial and sustainability management platform that’s bringing the property sector up to speed. With industry frontrunners
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NEWS | New York Times
Fear and Loathing Return to Tech Start-Ups
Start-up workers came into 2022 expecting another year of cash-gushing initial public offerings. Then the stock market tanked, Russia invaded Ukraine, inflation ballooned, and interest rates rose. Instead of going public, start-ups began cutting costs and laying off employees.
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NEWS | Colliers
What are the ESG challenges facing London offices?
One of the main challenges when it comes to potential obsolescence for the London market is scale. The size of the market and sheer number of office buildings mean that simple solutions to ESG-related problems will be few and far between. To demonstrate the scale
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NEWS | Crunchbase
The Value Of Public Cloud Companies Plummeted 40% In 5 Months, But Bessemer Isn’t Scared Off By The ‘SaaSacre’
In five short months ending in April, the value of publicly traded cloud companies plummeted $1.1 trillion, losing just over 40 percent of their total value. That’s according to the State of the Cloud 2022 report from Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP). In November, the public
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NEWS | TheRealDeal
Design supplies marketplace Material Bank worth $1.9B after fundraise
Architects and designers hit a wall — literally — when it’s time to put finishing touches on a project. They must search and sample thousands of tile, paint and carpet options from hundreds of manufacturers. It’s fragmented, expensive and time-consuming.
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