CREtech Briefs May 25, 2022 - 10 Big Ideas from CREtech Climate, Barcelona bets on ‘digital twin’ as future of city planning +More

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NEWS | PlaceTech

10 Big Ideas from CREtech Climate

Make it easy | Decarbonising the built environment is clearly not easy, and can overwhelm those that confront the challenge for the first time. We need to make it seem easy to encourage change. Look for ready-to-go technology. One thing we don’t have is time on

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NEWS | TheRealDeal

Real estate tech is coming for your business

That central message emerged from an afternoon panel discussion at The Real Deal’s New York City Showcase + Forum Thursday, where the real estate industry was said to be undergoing its most profound transformation in decades.

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NEWS | Calcalist Tech

Buildots raises $60 million for construction process AI solution

Buildots, a company that has developed a system to streamline the construction industry, has announced the completion of a $60 million Series C funding round. The current round of funding, which comes less than a year after their Series B round, is jointly led by

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NEWS | TechCrunch

Belong secures $80M to take the pain out of rental property management

Belong, a startup that aims to address both these issues while giving renters a way to save toward home ownership, has just raised $50 million in equity and secured $30 million in debt to expand its offerings and markets it serves. Fifth Wall led the

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NEWS | Crunchbase

Y Combinator Warns Startup Founders Of Economic Downturn: ‘Plan For The Worst’

Startup accelerator Y Combinator is the latest investment firm to warn the good times may be coming to an end for startups and the venture market. “No one can predict how bad the economy will get, but things don’t look good, ” YC wrote in a letter

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NEWS | PR Newswire

Spaceti Receives New Funding to Accelerate European and American Growth and Expand to the Middle East

Spaceti solutions, distributed via its partner's network in more than 20 countries, create hybrid, flexible, and sustainable built environments. Spaceti's platform serves large Enterprise clients such as Vodafone, Deloitte, Steelcase, and asset managers like CBRE, British Land, and PFA, covering more than 30mil. + square

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NEWS | Politico

Barcelona bets on ‘digital twin’ as future of city planning

In five years’ time, the structure of Europe’s cities won’t be decided in local town halls but inside a quiet 19th-century chapel in a leafy neighborhood of Barcelona. Housed in the deconsecrated Torre Girona chapel, the MareNostrum supercomputer — one of the world’s most powerful data processors

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NEWS | Antony Slumbers

Innovation: If not now, then when?

To brutalise Leo Tolstoy, every non innovative company is the same, but every innovative company is innovative in their own way. When you look at innovative companies they are all doing so in their own particular way. It can be difficult to understand what one

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NEWS | PlaceTech

Is proptech failing real estate?

“It’s clear the real estate industry as we know it is in need of digitalisation, in need for more innovation, different business models, more tech,” Alexander Gebauer said at a debate at the ULI Europe Conference in Brussels last week.

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NEWS | TechCrunch

Nomagic picks up $22M for its e-commerce warehouse picking robots

Robotics are playing a growing role in the world of e-commerce logistics and fulfillment — where they are seen not just as a way to speed up operations but to drastically reduce the costs of running them — and today a startup developing software and

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