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Real estate CIOs drive deals with data

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The residential real estate industry may not be perceived to be as digitally aggressive as Wall Street titans and multinational manufacturing conglomerates. As for Keller Williams, Chief Technology and Digital Officer Chris Cox sees the cloud as an engine for innovation. “We minutes from the moment the property is listed.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook.

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JLL, Khosla lead Jones’ $12.5M Series A for real estate vendor compliance

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Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. Its technology can process an insurance certificate in less than an hour and reduce the overall vendor approval time to 2.5 Enter Jones.

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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. Layoffs in the sector began — and they took place in a range of real estate tech companies, big and small. Low interest rates mean more purchases and refinances. Ahem, Brex). So were we.

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Real estate marketing software provider Luxury Presence raises $25.9M in a Bessemer-led Series B

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Luxury Presence, a startup selling marketing software to real estate brokerages, announced today it has raised $25.9 The company serves 3,700 customers, including individual and multi-agent real estate teams. Surging demand for second homes has also catalyzed the luxury real estate segment in the past year.

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Cushman & Wakefield builds a foundation for enterprise-wide AI

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Cushman & Wakefield has cashed in on several key IT trends over the past few years, positioning the Chicago-based firm well to weather ongoing headwinds in the commercial real estate market stirred by the COVID-19 pandemic. That early cloud push is providing a strong foundation for the firm’s current foray.

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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 deal has a post-transaction enterprise value of $1.58 Gitai Japan successfully completed a technology demo of its robotic arm aboard the International Space Station, a major milestone in the Tokyo-based startup’s goal of commercializing its space robots.