When to lease your own office space
When should a startup decide to begin leasing its own space? We asked Philip Brady and Anna Shaffer, two tenant representatives at Savills Studley, to explain how the real estate market in D.C. has...
View ArticleHow the rise of H Street inspired real-estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise
Food meets fashion meets crowdfunding: The new H Street space Maketto combines restaurant and retail with the added distinction of being born from the first real estate crowdfunding project in the...
View ArticleUberOffices just bought its first building
UberOffices, the rapidly growing network of coworking spaces that first launched in Arlington, has bought its first building in the trendy Logan Circle area. “It’s about where do you want to plant a...
View ArticleDC’s real-life SimCity startup raises $2.2 million
Create, an immersive 3D website for real-estate nerds, has finished raising a $2.2 million seed round. The platform, which pulls in data on D.C.’s buildings from public agencies and commercial sources,...
View ArticleJLL disrupts own industry, launches online commercial real estate platform
HiRise, the passion project of a handful of D.C.-based Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) employees, launched officially Wednesday. It’s sort of like Zillow for office space. As we wrote previously, the platform...
View ArticleFundrise is sending drones to shoot aerial footage of new properties
Real estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise is trying out drone videos to show off potential properties to investors — and to help ascertain their value. “It gives you a bird’s-eye view,” said CEO Ben...
View ArticleWhy Aaron Rinaca left LivingSocial for this JLL-backed real estate venture
When Aaron Rinaca joined LivingSocial in 2010, the deals website was still very much a startup. “My desk was still in its Ikea box,” he said. “I had to assemble it myself.” Though he came in to work in...
View ArticleCheck out this map of DC’s construction projects
If you’re one of these people who like to complain that D.C.’s condo construction bonanza has made the city feel like Mad Max, there’s now an easy way to gather concrete evidence for your gripes. The...
View ArticleBlackboard is going back to where it all started
D.C. edtech darling Blackboard is moving its headquarters to the downtown building where it first took up office space after its 1997 launch. According to a Washington Business Journal report, the...
View ArticleMeet SAM100, DC’s new school-building robot
A new bricklayer has joined the crew building a new high school in Foxhall. That new worker is a robot: Sam, short for SAM100, which is short for “semi-automated mason.” The new construction tool is...
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How SwingSpace is updating the commercial real estate market
When you deal in real estate, it’s good business to have an attractive piece of it yourself. On the 7th floor of 21 Dupont Circle I’m ushered in to a conference room with floor-to-ceiling glass and...
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How Atlas Lane wants to reinvent residential property management
Atlas Lane grew, originally, out of personal frustration. Founder Trever Faden was trying to find a property manager for his property on 17th Street, and was thoroughly unimpressed by the given...
View ArticleDC’s AreaProbe is through to the finals of Comcast’s Innovations 4...
Curvin Leatham, Donovan Anderson and Edward Faustin, the founders of AreaProbe, were working out of 1776 one day when they encountered a flyer for Comcast’s Innovations 4 Entrepreneurs competition. The...
View ArticleHomegrown coworking chain cove raises $3.4 million
D.C.-grown coworking chain cove has raised $3.4 million, DC Inno reported on Thursday. The two-year-old company also announced the hire of Nicholas Stafford, a former LivingSocial VP, as COO. Cove...
View ArticleEastern Foundry incubator to open second location
After launching a first space in Crystal City in December 2014, Eastern Foundry, the incubator for small government contractors, is branching out. According to the Washington Business Journal, the...
View ArticleServiceWhale home improvement platform expands to DC
In March 2015 an online marketplace for home improvement jobs launched in Trevose, Pa., with Philly as its home market. Now, ServiceWhale has expanded its services to D.C. The idea behind ServiceWhale,...
View ArticleThis new startup wants to help you make your pop-up dreams a reality
A small clothing company holds a trunk show at a hair salon. A yoga teacher, looking to widen her client base, holds a pop-up class in a new neighborhood. An Etsy shop-owner gets to (affordably)...
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Evan Burfield just moved across the river to Crystal City
1776 cofounder and co-CEO Evan Burfield has moved to Crystal City, the Washington Business Journal reports. The #dctech figure traded his two bedroom Logan Circle condo for a $1.6 million, five-bedroom...
View ArticleHow Title III of the JOBS Act helped Fundrise ‘democratize real estate’
When Dupont-based Fundrise first launched in 2012, the company’s mission was to “democratize” real estate investing — to “give everyone the opportunity to invest directly in high quality real estate.”...
View ArticleMakeOffices is opening a new location on K Street
MakeOffices, the D.C.-born brand of coworking spaces, announced on Wednesday that the company will open a new location in the District proper. The new space is at 1015 15th St. NW — in other words,...
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