For most people, buying a home is the single biggest investment in their lifetime. For existing homeowners, the process becomes a bit more stressful when they need to consider selling their old home. Orchard, which just rebranded from Perch, allows homeowners to manage this delicate balancing act by allowing you to purchase a new home […]
Real Estate
The PropTech Report: An Open Frontier For Hardware Entrepreneurs
Two constants have guided my professional life: venture capital and real estate. Every year, I eagerly await to see which portfolio will produce greater returns. Today, in the words of the great (fictional) New Yorker George Louis Costanza, “Worlds are colliding!” Enertiv, a New York Angels investment, keeps growing with an impressive client list of property managers and […]
Reonomy Raises $60M to be the Go-To Source for Commercial Real Estate Property Data
With a three-year growth rate of 990%, Reonomy is disrupting the CRE industry by providing the most extensive database of property-centric intelligence available for CRE teams and individual investors. Through its proprietary ML and AI technology, Reonomy connects and centralizes disparate property information into its platform that features over 50M properties and 68M property sales. […]
Blueground Pulls in Another $50M for Your Next Furnished Apartment
Technology is fundamentally changing the concepts of work, play, and live. When it comes to living, as work becomes more connected, more and more people find themselves traveling for extended periods of time and do not want to deal with an impersonal hotel or traditional corporate housing situation. Enter Blueground – the startup founded in […]
Branch Raises $2.4M to be the One Stop Shop for Office Furniture
An old-school CEO and the stereotypical, millennial CEO probably disagree on many factors about the workplace, but one universal belief that has withstood the test of time is that workplaces need furniture. Branch (the company was previously known as Bureau) makes high-quality, office furniture for growing companies, taking care of all the logistics from design to […]
A 360 Degree View Of Incubating Mechatronics
Recently, private equity giant Blackstone Group announced the acquisition of Colony Capital for $5.9 billion, a deal that encompasses 60 million square feet of warehouse space across 465 facilities. Blackstone is reported to manage now over $250 billion worth of property worldwide, and the Colony purchase comes on the heels of previous warehouse acquisitions of Singapore’s GLP […]
Here’s the Letter WeWork Employees Just Sent to Management
To the We Company Management Team: WeWork’s company values encourage us to be “entrepreneurial, inspired, authentic, tenacious, grateful and together.” Today, we are embracing these qualities wholeheartedly as we band together to ensure the well-being of our peers. We come from many departments across the company: building maintenance, cleaning, community, design, product, engineering and more. […]
SquareFoot Raises Another $16M to be the Modern Commercial Real Estate Brokerage
Normally, there is a negative implication when people say “it doesn’t fit anymore”, but this implication does not apply when it comes to outgrowing office space! In commercial real estate (CRE), flourishing companies contribute to 75 percent of the leases that are signed every year. SquareFoot is the CRE company that is dedicated to helping […]
LEX Raises $4M to Open Up Commercial Real Estate to Retail Investors
You don’t need to be a multi-millionaire to start investing in commercial real estate now that LEX is on the market. LEX is the marketplace that allows non-accredited investors to build a diversified property portfolio, starting with shares that cost $100. Investors are able to transact through the company’s platform, providing the much-needed liquidity that […]
Trends Defining the Future of Real Estate
It’s hard to keep up with all the ways technology is changing various industries, especially in home and design. The Future of Home conference was a two-day event that featured in-depth conversations with top designers and industry leaders, such as Cheryl Young from Zillow and Patrick Sisson from Curbed. Young and Sisson reflected on how […]
Prevu Raises $2M to Make the Home Buying Process More Equitable
The typical 6% commission fee that is equally divided between the buyer’s broker and seller’s broker has been a traditional part of any residential real estate transaction. Prevu, the full-service technology-powered brokerage, challenges this model in an area where homebuyers have access to information on available homes at their fingertips thanks to the internet. The startup’s […]