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Better.com CEO returns to role after Zoom layoffs controversy
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg has returned to his post as head of the digital mortgage company after more than...
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Crypto-rich but can’t buy a home? Now you can
Many within the ranks of the crypto-rich have a peculiar problem: Despite having digital assets worth hundreds of thousands...
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Construction payments startup Flashtract closes $15M Series A
Flashtract, a cloud-based construction software startup, raised $15 million to automate billing and payments for contractors and subcontractors used...
Location data firm Placer.ai hits unicorn status with $100M Series C
The first proptech unicorn of the new year has landed. Location analytics startup Placer.ai raised a $100 million Series...
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Future City: JLL’s latest proptech play; Entrata chairman ousted
Bigger, smarter JLL bought the cloud-based “virtual engineering” platform Hank for an undisclosed sum, adding to its smart building...
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Tech firms’ housing pledges coming up short
Two years after Apple, Google, and Meta vowed to spend $4.5 billion to create more than 40,000 new homes...
JLL buys cloud-based building management platform Hank
JLL has added another tool to its expanding suite of smart building offerings. The company acquired Hank, a cloud-based...
Proptech firm Entrata’s chairman resigns after anti-vax conspiracy email
The chairman of the company that pulled off 2021’s largest proptech fundraise resigned Tuesday after authoring an anti-vax email...
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Watch: Could technologists become tomorrow’s real estate moguls?
The summit of real estate used to be the domain of the “cowboys” — the Harry Helmsleys, Bill Zeckendorfs...
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Out of many, one: Inside proptech’s record year of M&A
A lot can change in a year. In the spring of 2020, after the coronavirus had shuttered the U.S....