GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Compass CEO Robert Reffkin last year after cutting the ribbon on the real estate brokerage’s tech center in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. billion — faces intense competition from two of Seattle’s homegrown real estate powerhouses: Zillow Group and Redfin. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2020

New York-based real estate brokerage and tech company Compass will acquire Modus , a Seattle startup that automates the title and escrow phase of closing on a home. Compass plans to integrate Modus’ software into its tech-fueled platform used by more than 18,000 real estate agents across 165-plus U.S.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2021

Seattle-based NavigatorCRE, makers of a data analytics platform that serves the commercial real estate industry, has raised $17.2 (NavigatorCRE Image). million in new funding, the startup announced Tuesday. The Series A funding round was led by Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners and was joined by existing investors.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Instashowing , a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings, has raised $1.5 Flint previously founded Trulia, a real estate listings company acquired by Zillow in 2015. He said the company is in conversations with MLS and brokerages that represent 600,000 agents.

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2021

Compass CEO Robert Reffkin in 2019 after cutting the ribbon on the real estate brokerage’s tech center in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Real estate brokerage Compass filed for an IPO on Monday. The 8-year-old company reported $3.7 GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2023

The once high-flying real estate market sputtered in 2022, dragging many real estate tech companies down with it. The sudden swing pushed companies to cut costs, which included layoffs and shifts to their business models. Both companies are forecasting even lower volumes in Q4.

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GeekWire

JULY 31, 2020

Porch, a real estate technology venture and home improvement marketplace that has spent four years quietly renovating its own business, plans to become publicly traded through a merger that values the Seattle company at $523 million. a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, as they’re known. Porch Photo).

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Schwalb recently announced a new lawsuit against RealPage, a software company working in the real estate business, and 14 of DC's biggest landlords. The property owners and the software maker colluded to illegally raise rents for tens of thousands of DC residents, the lawsuit says, exploiting. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2024

-based startup that sells software for homebuilding, raised $7 million. The 2-year-old company is an AI-powered collaboration platform for builders and homeowners that organizes documents, provides communication tools, and generates 3D digital versions of homes, among other features. The company has 25 employees.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2023

Founded in 2019, the company provides inspection software and a booking platform for home, property, and rental inspections. The startup serves real estate investors, property managers, lenders, insurance carriers, and brokerages. The fresh cash comes amid a real estate market slowdown. The Washington, D.C.-based

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Zillow Group said it will pay $500 million to acquire ShowingTime , a Chicago-based real estate company that sells software to facilitate home showings. Its software is used by 370 Multiple Listing Services. The 225-person company also produces market reports. billion purchase of Trulia in 2015.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Zillow Group employees gather at the company’s “zRetreat” in Seattle last year. That’s one highlight from CEO Rich Barton’s letter to shareholders released Wednesday, part of the company’s Q4 earnings report. And software engineering is in our DNA in this company.”

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) Tableau Software has a new leader, as Salesforce veteran Ryan Aytay was named CEO of Tableau on Tuesday. The company continues to face competition in the business intelligence software sector from Microsoft and others. Ryan Aytay. Aytay was previously president and chief revenue officer of Tableau.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2023

— Dallas, Texas-based auction software company Auction.io acquired real estate tech platform Doorsey. based Doorsey aims to make real estate transactions more transparent through a home-bidding platform that displays real-time prices and sales terms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

based company sells a data analytics platform for planning and risk management. It provides real-time insights using a company’s internal data, helping CFOs and other financial professional manage their corporate finance and treasury tasks. . tech company focused on managing energy and water resources.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Bridget Frey, CTO at Redfin , the tech-powered real estate company that operates in more than 100 markets in the U.S. Inbal Shani, chief product officer at GitHub , the software development platform used by more than 100 million developers around the world. Using ChatGPT to generate 4x more localized real estate content.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

Zillow Group Photo) [This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. When looking toward Zillow’s future, CEO and co-founder Rich Barton emphasized the company’s tech-influenced past — and tech-heavy present — while speaking at the T3 Leadership Summit. residential real estate model unique.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2024

The company was founded two years ago under the name Semi-Stow. It operates 18 properties and 8,000 parking spaces, and also runs a brokerage business to help trucking companies find secure parking. The company is led by CEO Trent Cameron , who previously worked at Salesforce, Workrise, and Spiceworks.

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GeekWire

MAY 30, 2023

Amazon confirmed the departure of Chris Vonderhaar, who had been at the company for nearly 13 years, in response to a GeekWire inquiry on Tuesday. The company did not immediately address follow-up questions about the circumstances of Vonderhaar’s exit, or plans to replace him in the role.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2024

Gurley previously sat on the company’s board from 2005 to 2015, advising the real estate giant from its early years. “Over the next several years, I believe Zillow is going to harness its astounding brand power to continue transforming the consumer experience and real estate industry.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

New funding: Knock announced a $20 million round to fuel growth of its apartment property management software. It follows a $12 million round raised in May and pushes total funding to $47 million for the 7-year-old company that employs 104 people.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The news: Inspectify , a 2-year-old Seattle startup tackling the home inspection process, raised $8 million from several VCs, real estate giant Redfin, and execs from startups such as Built Technologies, Side, Sundae, Flyhomes, and Steadily. “It’s such a massive industry,” Jensen said of the real estate sector.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2024

(SingleFile Image) (SingleFile Image) (SingleFile Image) SingleFile , a legal tech startup based in Seattle that helps companies file compliance reports with government agencies, raised a fresh round of capital to support its growth. SingleFile works with customers in other verticals such as venture capital, private equity and real estate.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Companies are cutting back on real estate ahead of a potential recession. That’s double what the New York City-based moving company did in the same period last year and multiples higher than what it would have done pre-pandemic. Ditching office space is one of many levers companies are pulling to reduce their costs.

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GeekWire

JUNE 12, 2024

F5 Photo) Back in 1999, when F5 recruited Jeff Stockdale to build its hardware business, expanding beyond its core expertise in software, the engineering leader had one condition for the Seattle-based technology company. Rover finds a home in Spokane One well-known Seattle company, Rover, owes its existence to Spokane.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. Of course, JLL has only just begun to use generative AI and LLMs.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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TM Forum

MARCH 4, 2022

And Ericsson signed a hardware, software and services deal with Zain KSA live at the event for a new charging platform. We’re not seeing a great deal of this mirrored in IT vendors’ portfolios yet, but companies like Nokia were showing dynamic power management of 5G RAN at their booths. Again, Rakuten has an.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

(Heywood Chen Photo) Salesforce is putting more than 200,000 square feet of Tableau Software office space in the Seattle region up for sublease. The move comes after Salesforce said in January that it would reduce its real estate footprint as part of other cost-cutting moves. The company did not provide an updated headcount.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Zillow’s move also represents a big loss for the algorithms that powered its nascent iBuying business, and it is a warning sign to other businesses — both in real estate and other industries — that rely heavily on the almighty algorithm. Even still, the company used its algorithms to buy 9,680 homes in the third quarter.

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GeekWire

JUNE 13, 2023

Prompt: “A robot helping a software engineer develop code.” ” Generative AI is already changing the way software engineers do their jobs. We caught up with engineering leaders at six Seattle tech companies to learn about how they’re using generative AI and how it’s changing their jobs.

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) Optimize Health , a Seattle-based startup that sells remote patient monitoring software, announced Ryan Clark as its new CEO. Clark, based in Ottawa, Canada, was previously a senior vice president and joined the company in 2021. Founding partner Whitney Curry left the firm in 2020 to join real estate startup Pacaso.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Enterprise software companies have long dominated the Seattle and Pacific Northwest tech scene. They range from stalwarts such as Microsoft and F5 Networks, to a bevy of smaller startups developing cutting-edge software in cloud computing, cybersecurity, and other industries. Sunset over the Seattle skyline.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Zillow Group plans to lay off 47 workers in Washington state as part of the 2,000 company employees who will lose their jobs following the decision this week to shut down the home buying and selling operation Zillow Offers. The real estate company employs about 8,000 people across the U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Seattle real estate giant Redfin announced that it will pay an estimated $135 million in cash and stock to purchase Bay Equity Home Loans , a Bay Area-based mortgage lender that is active in 42 states and employs 1,200 people. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy). The deal should provide a boost to Redfin’s lending business.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Magic Leap, the once high-flying augmented reality company that raised more than $2.6 The suit was filed against the company on May 15 in King County Superior Court by the owner of the original Rainier Brewery in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. Magic Leap’s Seattle office when it was open. GeekWire File Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Opendoor , the online real estate giant that lets people directly buy and sell homes online, has acquired Seattle-based startup Pro.com and San Francisco-based Skylight. ” San Francisco-based Opendoor is a leader in the growing iBuyer market that includes others such as Seattle companies Zillow Group and Redfin. .”

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