Honest Buildings

Honest Buildings | May 17, 2016

With commercial real estate tech firms coming out of the woodwork recently (e.g. the many "dating sites" for office space), Bisnow sat down with Riggs Kubiak, CEO of Honest Buildings—a tech platform built for real estate players to track and manage costs—for the inside scoop on the commercial real estate tech world. Bisnow: Give us a rundown of Honest Buildings. It’s like a one-stop shop for managing your projects? Riggs Kubiak: It is, it breaks down into three parts....

Honest Buildings | May 10, 2016

In May 2016, leasing- and asset-management software startup VTS raised one of the largest financing rounds for a commercial real estate tech startup to-date, a $55M Series C financing led by Insight Venture Partners. The commercial real estate tech startup industry isn’t as large as the residential real estate tech scene just yet, but it’s certainly growing.Using CB Insights and analytics, we identified 53 startups working in commercial real estate tech, and categorized them into a m...

Honest Buildings | May 08, 2016

What it does: Cost tracking and portfolio insights for real estate owners. The company put together a nice $5M funding round last June, adding to the $9M it raised in a pair of 2013 rounds. The purpose-built platform combines real-time business intelligence with vendor selection and project management tools that allow cross-functional teams to collaboratively track projects' spending, intelligently compare bids, and access data across their portfolio....

Bisnow LLC | January 16, 2020

Invesco Real Estate recently acquired Bravern Office Commons, which is fully leased to Microsoft, for $585M. The complex includes 305K SF of retail occupied by Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton and others, and a seven-level subterranean parking garage with 3,134 stalls. Two residential towers include 455 units. NKF’s co-Head of U.S. Capital Markets Kevin Shannon, Vice Chairman Nick Kucha, Senior Managing Director Michael Moll, Executive Managing Directors Ken White, Rob Hannan and Tim O’Keef...