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Register Now For The Biggest Week In PropTech!
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Make sure you register for NYC Real Estate Tech Week in partnership with Propel by MIPIM - NYC today! Online panels, learning expeditions, fireside chats, and the newest edition of the Startup Competition are just a few of the things you can expect at this year's fully digital experience.
Check out the schedule below and start building your itinerary. Take advantage of the fully digital format this year and connect with more people than ever before!
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NYC Real Estate Tech Week 2020 Schedule
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Tuesday 8th
- The future of RE Investment
- Leaders Perspectives' Discussions
- A Success Story Between Oxford Properties Group, Investa & SparkBeyond
Wednesday 9th
- The New Hybrid Workplace – Key Learnings & Best Practices For Businesses
- A Success Story Between Blackstone & Dealpath
- Buildings of the Future
- A Success Story Between VTS & RXR
- Leaders Perspectives' Discussions
- Propel by MIPIM Startup Competition – NYC Stop Finals
Thursday 10th
- The State of Cross-Border Investing Through and Beyond COVID-19 hosted by AFIRE
- The Retail Real Estate Outlook hosted by Barron’s Group
- Where does the office fit into our post-COVID future? Hosted by Propmodo
- The new normal: resi tech in sales and marketing hosted by The Real Deal
Friday 11th
- How Covid-19 Accelerated the Move away from Traditional Pre-Era Talent Models Toward On-Demand, Flexible Workforce Models
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Caja Robotics announces $12M Series B funding
Caja Robotics, a leading warehouse robotics company, today announced a $12 million Series B funding. Caja Robotics will utilize this funding round to expand the company’s global activities and deployments, enhance its manufacturing, and expedite installations with customers. Read More.
ShipMonk Raises $290M to Help Online Merchants Scale Operations
“ShipMonk was founded to alleviate the burden of supply chain management and allow brand owners to focus on the magic of their front-end customer experience,” said ShipMonk Founder and CEO, Jan Bednar. The financing represents a minority stake in the business and will help further accelerate ShipMonk’s rapid growth. Read More.
Infogrid raises $15.5M from Northzone to retrofit buildings with ‘smart’ IoT
Infogrid’s platform combines IoT sensors with proprietary AI analysis and has had some success re-vamping facilities management (FM) for some of the world’s largest FM providers, such as global banks, supermarkets, restaurant chains and the NHS. Read More.
Aurora Solar raises $50M to streamline solar installation with predictive algorithms
San Francisco-based Aurora Solar, which taps a combination of lidar sensor data, computer-assisted design, and computer vision to streamline solar panel installations, today announced a $50 million raise. Solar remains a bright spot in the still-emerging renewable energy sector. Read More.
Construction Tech Startup Soil Connect Raises $3.25M Seed Round
Soil Connect, a startup creating a marketplace for soil and aggregates, announced $3.25 million in seed funding on Wednesday. The company connects people and businesses with soil and aggregates–such as stones–with people who need them. Read More.
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The PropTech Space Is A 'Blue Ocean' In Asia
When looking to name major players in Asia that are at the forefront of technology innovation in the real estate industry you tend to come up short. If you look at the adoption speed in Asia, it's apparent that it is lagging behind as compared to Europe and the United States revealing a huge gap between the post-pandemic demands of PropTech and companies that can provide such services. Read More.
China’s tech firms rush to deliver solutions for grocery shopping
Tech companies in China are scrambling to capture grocery shoppers of all ages. A new business model that’s getting a lot of funding is that of Nice Tuan, the so-called community group buying. Read More.
Smart-glass maker View to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC merger
Smart-glass maker View Inc said on Monday it would go public through a $1.6 billion merger with a blank-check company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. View, which expects up to $800 million from the deal, said the combined company would be publicly listed on the Nasdaq after the merger Read More.
Jadian Capital closes $650M fund targeting emerging real estate
Jadian plans make its investments by buying new assets or adding value to existing ones, or it may invest directly in companies that it’s targeting. The firm will look at deals throughout the country. Read More.
The Titans Amazon, Google and Facebook Are Also Driving Commercial Real Estate
The biggest U.S. tech companies are providing a jolt to the slumbering commercial real-estate business, emerging as major tenants and acquirers of office and other space while many nontech firms are trying to tear up their leases. Read More.
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Dealmaking in the second half of 2020 has been primarily in the tech sector, from Airbnb’s imminent IPO to reports that Salesforce may be acquiring Slack. Watch Here.
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Analyst, Deal Underwriting
Blurring the line between hospitality and home, WhyHotel’s model provides the value and space of a home-share with the consistency of a luxury hotel—it is, after all, a venture-capital backed start-up that operates "turn-key, pop-up hotels" in newly built, vacant apartments during their initial lease-up phase. WhyHotel is looking for an analyst to thoroughly underwrite Pop-up hotel ideas and present their findings For more information, click here.
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Director, Real Estate Partnerships
This DC-based start-up is also looking for a director who will be responsible for senior-level, enterprise sales to facilitate hospitality-oriented partnerships with the biggest investors and developers of multifamily real estate across the the U.S. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, connecting with real estate investors and developers on Pop-Up hotel opportunities across the U.S. to source deals. For more information, click here.
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Sales Manager
Vesta is shaking up the traditional design landscape. In four years, Vesta has designed thousands of luxury residential projects worth over $20 billion and is rapidly expanding its footprint across the country. They are looking to hire someone to manage and grow their West Coast sales organization by building a best-in-class team capable of scaling into new business verticals and geographically. For more information, please email julian@vestahome.com
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For other hot positions in PropTech visit MetaProp's portfolio job board.
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Dec 8-11, 2020 | Online
Propel by MIPIM - NYC
MetaProp and Reed MIDEM are pleased to announce that NYC Real Estate Tech Week and Propel by MIPIM NYC will be a virtual summit on December 8-11, 2020. The summit will be the largest, global, virtual real estate & technology event, highlighting innovation in the built environment including networking, one-on-one expert presentations, panels, specialty workshops, and industry insights. Register here!
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Dec 7-9, 2020 | Online
AICPA Construction & Real Estate Online Conference
Zander Geronimos, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development at MetaProp, will be speaking at this year's AICPA Real Estate and Construction Conference!
Joined by Louisa Dickins of LMRE and Khalid David of TracFlo, they will cover the latest Proptech developments and the future of the industry! Register here!
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