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Chinese Startups Addressing Digital Workplace Solutions for Commercial Real Estate

The digital workplace sector is a rapidly evolving market opportunity within commercial real estate. The market is in the early stages of maturity, having seen considerable activity over the past two years accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our new Digital Workplace report published this year forecasts that the the Asia region will enjoy the most impressive rise in digital workplace revenues over the forecast period (2021-2026), with predicted growth of 24.4% CAGR. Five Chinese startup companies supplying workplace experience and occupancy analytics solutions in office buildings are included in our analysis and highlighted in this research note – 9am, DFocus, Kuban, SpacesForce and En-Trak. Beijing-based 9am is a workplace digitalization player, founded in 2015 with 53 employees. Focused on human detection sensors and AIoT technology, the company provides corporate solutions for spatial analysis, which lead to data-driven workplace strategies as well as a healthy and efficient working experience. 9am Tesseract integrates cloud computing, big data and AIoT, providing a space sensing […]

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