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Sugar raises $2.5M in seed funding to connect apartment residents

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As people began quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dicko saw an opportunity to help make it easier for people living in apartments and residential communities to “engage with one another in a safe and efficient way.” Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

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Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. New York-based Latch sells “LatchOS,” a hardware and software system that works in buildings where access and amenities matter. Latch’s hardware works with doors, sensors and internet connectivity. Let’s find out. from 2019 to 2020. ”

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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. One of Butlr’s temperature sensors. Image Credits: Butlr.

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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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Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps

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Users don’t look kindly on poor experiences — 88% say they’ll abandon apps based on minor glitches, according to software testing vendor Qualitest (which admittedly has a horse in the race). It might sound novel, but robotics have been used to test mobile device software for quite some time. Image Credits: Mobot.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

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Over $700 billion of the proposed budget will go to improving resiliency against natural disasters; upgrading critical water, power, and internet infrastructure; and rehabilitating and improving public housing, federal buildings, and aging commercial and residential real estate. Real estate consumes 40% of all energy.

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India, the world’s largest smartwatch market, is getting new smart rings

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Kumar said the startup evaluated the option of going with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) route but decided to set up its native production to have complete control over hardware and software. “Software-as-a-service (SaaS) doesn’t work in India. Ultrahuman Ring Air review Many companies in the U.S.

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