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Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

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Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Factor in that more people were spending more time at home than ever due to COVID shelter-in-place orders, home took on new meaning. You can read my story on that here ). Ahem, Brex).

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

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” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. Infogrid helps our clients to provide exactly this, which improves their rental yields and asset values.”

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Max Q: Sierra Space, Blue Origin, Boeing and others stake out space real estate

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Orbital Reef is claiming its slice of LEO real estate. The planned station, called “Orbital Reef,” will also include tech and services from Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering and Arizona State University. The deal has a post-transaction enterprise value of $1.58 Other news from TechCrunch.

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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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Puls Technologies lands $15M to provide on-demand home repair service

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That’s where Puls Technologies come in. Puls raises $50 million for in-home technical support. Puls Technologies app. Image Credits: Puls Technologies. It saw some of that demand related to the global pandemic, when the need for home repairs increased due to people spending more time at home.

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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.