CREtech Briefs February 11, 2022 - Selina raises $150M, The Off-Site Is the New Return to the Office + More

Today's Headlines

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NEWS | TechCrunch

Selina raises $150M to dish out flexible loans that leverage home equity

For many of us, our home is by far our biggest asset, and in the world of fintech, that’s led to a logical extension: when you need money, borrow against that biggest asset. Today, a London fintech called Selina, which provides flexible capital to consumers on

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NEWS | TechCrunch

Better.com loses more top execs in wake of Vishal Garg’s return as CEO

The exodus of executives at Better.com continues. TechCrunch has learned that Sarah Pierce, who served as executive vice president of customer experience, sales and operations, and Emanuel Santa-Donato, who was senior vice president of capital markets and growth, are no longer with the digital mortgage company.

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NEWS | CSA

What Placer.ai intends to do with its $100 million cash infusion

At ICSC’s biggest show of 2021 in Las Vegas last December, one booth, crammed to its borders with visitors, shone out as the rock star of the event. That was the booth of Placer.ai.

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NEWS | Silverstein Properties

Silverstein Introduces Employee Badge In Apple Wallet For Its WTC Employees and Tenants

Silverstein Properties, a leading real estate development, investment and management firm, today introduced contactless access to its 7 World Trade Center office building through employee badge in Apple Wallet. Silverstein’s employee badges in Apple Wallet allow users to easily access its office buildings, tenant floors,

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NEWS | Wall Street Journal

The Off-Site Is the New Return to the Office

Remember the off-site meeting? For some companies, those traditional company gatherings at hotels, spas and other exotic locations are pointing the way to a new, innovative model for getting employees back to working in person.

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NEWS | Axios

Flex office's rapid rise

Here's the big winner that's emerging in the post-pandemic working world: co-working space companies, Erica Pandey writes. By the numbers: 24% of companies surveyed in a new CBRE report say they expect more than a quarter of their office space to be flex within the next two years.

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NEWS | TechCrunch

OMERS Ventures, Turner Construction team up to build the construction tech startup of their dreams

OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. The space is intriguing to her, but so far, she has not come across a company whose model has been compelling enough to convince her to pull out

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NEWS | PR Newswire

EasyKnock Completes $57 Million Series C Funding Round to Help More Homeowners Achieve Their Financial Goals

EasyKnock, the leading residential sale-leaseback platform, today announced a $57.2 million funding round from a large group of new and existing investors with participation from Blumberg Capital, Gaingels, Moderne Ventures, QED Investors, and Viola FinTech. Some notable individual investors also contributed to the round including Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff's 75

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NEWS | TechCrunch

Clikalia clicks on $86M to expand its iBuyer marketplace across Europe and Latin America

Companies like Opendoor opened the door to a new way of buying and selling properties by inserting a strong middle player who could buy houses or apartments and redevelop them at scale, and then sell them to new homeowners at a profit. Now Clikalia, another player

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NEWS | Business Times

Construction tech startup Hubble raises S$11.35m in Series B funding

Construction management platform Hubble has raised S$11.35 million in Series B funding, with new investors including Taronga Ventures, Kajima Ventures, the venture arm of Japan's Kajima Corp, and Seeds Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore.