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Neighbor raises $53M for self-storage marketplace after 5x YoY revenue growth

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Neighbor , which operates a self-storage marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $53 million in a Series B round of funding. At a time when the commercial real estate world is struggling, self-storage is an asset class that continues to perform extremely well.

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Kapacity.io is using AI to drive energy and emissions savings for real estate

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is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs. Y Combinator-backed Kapacity.io And Rauhala names the U.K.

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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

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It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. The subscription gains the owner access to the camera, AI-based image processing software and cloud storage, and other services.

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Stuf raises $1.8M to rethink self-storage

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Stuf , a new startup transforming basements and other unused spaces into self-storage locations, is announcing that it has raised $1.8 Co-founder and CEO Katharine Lau previously led the real estate team at co-working company Industrious. On-demand storage startup MakeSpace picks up another $55M. million in seed funding.

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Fundrise invests $128M into expansion of Saltbox’s warehouse, co-working spaces for entrepreneurs

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Saltbox , a company providing co-working and warehousing space for up-and-coming e-commerce businesses, said it is working with Fundrise, a real estate investment firm, to expand nationally. Brandon Jenkins, COO of Fundrise, told TechCrunch that his company liked the approach Saltbox was taking to open up access to real estate.

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Saltbox raises $10.6M to help booming e-commerce stores store their goods

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Many of those companies are limited to self-storage and mini-warehouse facilities for storing their inventory, which can be expensive and inconvenient. . The company secures its properties with a mix of buying and leasing by partnering with institutional real estate investors. Now, Saltbox has completed a $10.6

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LA-based Metropolis raises $41 million to upgrade parking infrastructure

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Inrix Buys ParkMe To Add Smart Parking Services To Its Real Time Traffic Data. While the computer vision and machine learning technology will serve as the company’s beachhead into parking lots, services like cleaning, charging, storage and logistics could all be part and parcel of the Metropolis offering going forward, Israel said.