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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

We have witnessed the likes of WeWork, Convene, and Airbnb reimagine working and living, all while catalyzing momentum for further investments across the real estate technology landscape. Modern consumers have increasingly begun to accept, and often prefer, reducing both human and invested capital with technology and third-party services.

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

GCUC

by Liz Elam, founder of GCUC, the Global Coworking Unconference Conference. As founder of GCUC, the world’s largest coworking conference series, I travel the world learning about coworking. At the end of each year, I look ahead to where the coworking world is going and share my predictions for the coming year.

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The Future of the Workplace is Flexible

Revolution

Convening with CEO and co-founder Ryan Simonetti By Steve Murray and Patrick Conroy , Partners at Revolution Growth Convene’s London location at 22 Bishopsgate In 2018, Revolution Growth led an investment in Convene , an emerging leader in flexible work, meetings and events, and premium venues.

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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform

TechCrunch

Meet Thynk , a new company that wants to build the definite enterprise software solution for the hospitality industry. This round was led by Singular , with a New-York based fund managed by Itai Tsiddon and Belgian investment firm CNP (Groupe Frère) also participating. The startup just raised a $13 million Series A round.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Yet, and this will come as a surprise to no one who has ever managed a hospitality business, things weren’t going *perfectly* at the four-year-old startup with 10,000+ members—which feels like the standard female founders are held to. I especially haven’t worked in a hospitality job or any other job while Black.

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Daily Crunch: Reddit users discover Apple is raising its battery replacement service fees

TechCrunch

Sharing economy, but for hospital rooms : HD is a Southeast Asia startup betting that matching demand with supply can also apply to vacant hospital rooms. No matter the size, early-stage investments are a sign of validation for any startup. Rita has more on how the company is doing this. It seems so. Amanda writes.

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Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’

TechCrunch

When R-Zero was founded in April 2020, the company primarily focused on developing hospital-grade UVC disinfection systems, or lights that can neutralize certain types of viruses (more on this later). UVC lights have been used in hospitals for decades to sanitize surfaces like scanners, or to sanitize air when inserted into UV air ducts.