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Accacia tackles the real estate industry’s massive carbon emissions problem

TechCrunch

The real estate and infrastructure sectors contribute about 40% of global carbon emissions , and part of solving the climate crisis is fixing how those industries work. Accacia gives large property owners a way to track their carbon impact in real-time by integrating with ERPs and property management systems like Yardi.

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YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam

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Co-founders Junyuan Tan and Phillip An originally started Homebase in Singapore, but decided to focus on Vietnam because Tan had lived there while working on his previous startups, RePrice Technologies and Atlantis Lab. Tan wanted to buy a home, but found bank mortgages charged high interest rates even on short-term loans.

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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal

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But that depends on our ability and commitment to take care of it properly.” — Lou Corriero, Vice President of Cloud Technologies at IT Vortex. Lou Corriero, Vice President of Cloud Technologies at IT Vortex, notes that the organization frees its customers to focus on their businesses, not the IT required to run them.

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Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’

TechCrunch

R-Zero now has about 1,000 private and public sector clients that range from correctional facilities to the Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics, to the South San Francisco Unified School District. . As companies scrambled for ways to sanitize buildings, the company racked up a total of $58.8 million in funding at a $256.5 million valuation.

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Proptech: the disruption of real estate

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Today we will talk about Proptech, but I promise you to cover other “Tech” acronyms in the upcoming posts. Real Estate Technology or Property Technology is often referred to as RE Tech or PropTech. Basically, it is a use of technology in the real estate industry to make transactions more efficient.

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When fundraising, New Zealand startup founders should play the ‘Kiwi card’

TechCrunch

New Zealand, a country of 5 million people in the South Pacific, has witnessed a shifting tech startup landscape over the last couple of years. Founders and VCs in New Zealand are hopeful that the increase in funding from multiple sources is a signal that technology might just become the country’s next big industry.

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Opendoor alums raise $7.75M for Kindred, a home-swapping network it says makes travel ‘dramatically more affordable’

TechCrunch

Palefsky started at the real estate tech company in 2015 when it had just 30 employees. A16z General Partner Sriram Krishnan said he was drawn to lead the seed round for Kindred due to “ a combination of the founders, market and great timing.”. When she left in 2019, the startup had 1,500 employees.

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