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

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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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Vontive wants to be the Palantir of real estate investing

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residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. Vontive , an embedded mortgage platform for investment real estate that just came out of stealth, is trying to streamline some of those processes by helping mortgage lenders upgrade their tech. housing crisis.

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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. The growing number of competitors coincides with an uptick in VC investments in IoT companies.

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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Shame-free down rounds, checkout flow tune-up, SaaS tsunami

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If you’re trying to recalibrate online sales, this TC+ guest post contains formulas for calculating lost lifetime value (LTV) due to churn on a monthly and annual basis. Seriously: If you’re not working to calibrate every system you have, you’re just leaving money on the table. Dominic-Madori Davis: Diligence?

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

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Brian Smith was an early believer in the city, founding S3 Ventures with a $20 million first fund after a career as an electrical engineer at companies like IBM before starting his own company, Crossroads Systems. In fact, the firm believes that Texas is going to be the second-largest tech ecosystem in the U.S.

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Salesforce to cut 10% of its global workforce in restructuring plan

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Salesforce over-hired during the pandemic He added that as Salesforce’s revenue accelerated through the pandemic, the company over-hired and can no longer sustain its current workforce size due to the ongoing economic downturn. “I CRM Systems, Technology Industry. I take responsibility for that,” Benioff said in his letter.