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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 Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years.

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

TechCrunch

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

This is going to be BIG.

Back in the late 90's, a lot of money and real estate brokering went into trying to make it so, however. That's what I fear when I see places like Berlin, Chicago, and Toronto putting on startup events--not enough anchors to make the whole thing stick and to turn the excitement into real opportunity.

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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform

TechCrunch

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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‘Co-warehouse’ company Saltbox closes $35M Series B

TechCrunch

Coworking and warehouse space company Saltbox announced today the closing of a $35 million Series B led by Cox Enterprises and Pendulum Holdings. Saltbox also faces the changing tides of the real estate and e-commerce markets. The news comes more than a year after Saltbox closed a $10.6

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OfficeRnD, a SaaS for managing hybrid workplaces, grabs $10M

TechCrunch

The Series A funding is led by Runa Capital with Flashpoint Venture Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures also participating. A lot of companies we know have grown yet kept the same lease on their office and now realize they want to use it differently and provide more opportunities to their employees”.

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