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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

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Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

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Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. The family-owned real estate firm develops Colabs spaces.

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Bitwise Industries lands $80M to expand its sprawling software dev business

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Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses. Olguin and Soberal’s latest venture through Bitwise is commercial real estate — the two develop and turn previously blighted buildings into coworking spaces, restaurants, theaters and more.

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Deskimo, the on-demand desk booking app, raises $3M and expands to Jakarta

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Participants in the round included Y Combinator (Deskimo was part of its summer 2021 cohort ), Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, Seed X, Starling Ventures and TSVC. It partners with coworking spaces, including WeWork, The Hive, Executive Centre and Garage Society, giving them additional streams of revenue.

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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform

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Fly Ventures, an existing shareholder in the startup, invested once again. Hospitality’s end goal is nothing more than a new way to generate income on real estate assets,” Petit said. The startup just raised a $13 million Series A round. This industry is completely under-equipped when it comes to integrated information systems.

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

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As we stated in our Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2019 , the sleeping giant is definitely awake. The real estate industry has finally figured out that coworking is not a fad or a little blip. They will need a little time but real estate will continue to invest heavily in our industry.

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How to Fill a Building Full of Tech and Startup People

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Venture capital firms, on the other hand, draw people in. If just a small percentage of those people picked their head up and found that space to be interesting, you'd wind up with a lot of conversions. I experience that in my Gowanus office for Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. They're a push when it comes to traffic.

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