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Butlr lands new cash to put people-detecting sensors in the office

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Deng asserts that many companies are flying blind when it comes to real estate. “The pandemic brought home the need to understand occupancy and utilization data for real estate executives,” Deng told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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Italian CIOs at the crossroads of transformation and sustainability

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These are two interconnected issues, because sustainability not only shows how we can use technology to be more sustainable, but also guides the paths of technological development.” On this basis, the Authority gives new life to real estate, with a pragmatic, digital approach for users.”

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Placer.ai, a location analytics startup, finds $100M at a $1B valuation

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It’s being led by Josh Buckley (the CEO of Product Hunt), with participation from WndrCo (Disney/Dreamworks’ supremo Jeffrey Katzenberg’s investment firm), Lachy Groom, MMC Technology Ventures LLC, Fifth Wall Ventures and Array Ventures, as well as a swathe of real estate names, including J.M.

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What an IT career will look like in 5 years

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While crystal ball technology is notoriously fallible, tech leaders say there are a handful of changes to IT work that we’ll likely see half a decade from now. But as Hendrickson sees it, IT’s AI future will be one of collaboration between IT staff and AI technologies.

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CBRE’s Sandeep Davé on accelerating your AI ambitions

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As chief digital and technology officer at CBRE, Davé recognized early that the commercial real estate industry was ripe for AI and machine learning enhancements, and he and his team have tested countless use cases across the enterprise ever since. Sandeep Davé knows the value of experimentation as well as anyone.

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

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Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. A construction tech boom. Technology startups are emerging to help solve these problems.

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Investors discuss how labor shortage is shaking up the construction tech stack

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To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space. Due to the pandemic, many contech workers were unable to freely visit their job sites and realized they had less visibility than they’d like into what was happening onsite. “Due