Fully Occupied Scoop: February 2022 Newsletter
Last Updated on August 22, 2022 by Amanda Lee
🎉 ICYMI – Exciting News
February 2022 was an exciting month for team Occupier. We announced our Series A financing round, co-led by Stage 2 Capital and OMERS Ventures with participation from MetaProp, Alate Partners, and Second Century Ventures.
We are hiring across our organization, check out our careers page for up to date openings.
📈 Real Estate Strategy is a Business Imperative
Seven Trends Driving Commercial Real Estate in 2022
“Demand for intelligent real estate tech rang loudly contributing capabilities such as embedded finance, home-improvement software and digital solutions for property.” Forbes
Headwinds? Who cares? Crexi predicts another big year for commercial real estate
“Retailers are embracing pick-up at their storefronts… This click-and-mortar approach seems to be the sweet spot for retailers.” ReJournals
Six CRE Trends to Watch in 2022
“The CRE industry is behind on technology, but we see a lot of clients interested in improving.” GlobeST
🍦 So, What’s the Scoop?
The pandemic forced many corporate tenants to re-evaluate their real estate strategy. We believe that real estate is central to business success. The future of work is here. As tenants re-assess their real estate strategy, their finance and real estate leaders are leaning on CRE data tools and techstack to inform critical business decisions.
🎤 Latest on the Podcast
IMHO – No one has said it better than Michelle Killoran of OMERS Ventures and Liz Christo of Stage 2 capital, “Sales teams have Salesforce, finance teams have NetSuite, design teams have Figma, and now real estate teams have Occupier.”
Check out our latest episode on the Fully Occupied Podcast with our Series A investors discussing their predictions for the future of commercial real estate.