"Throughout the competitive pitch process, Equiem stood out as the tenant experience technology provider that would best help us differentiate the Unico brand," Darrin Williams, vice president, real estate services at Unico, tells GlobeSt.com. "The sophistication and depth of their enterprise-grade app, coupled with their proven experience in successfully scaling to new markets, gave us the confidence we needed in a partner as we design and deliver a range of new initiatives for our tenants. Unico's customer-obsessed service that puts people first, combined with Equiem's solutions, allow us to continue creating vibrant, engaging and connected communities across our assets, a vital point of difference in today's leasing market."

Founded in 2011, Equiem's enterprise-grade end-to-end platform serves more than 8,900 companies registered across the US, Australia, the UK and Ireland. The firm recently announced the completion of its largest ever capital raise, securing more than $8.4 million from a number of different investors. Equiem says the capital will be used to continue reinvesting in its technology and keep raising the bar in the tenant experience technology space.

Developers continue to position themselves in both Seattle and on the Eastside to ready for more tech expansion, according to a report by Kidder Mathews. In downtown Bellevue, there are at least five new office projects that could break ground by early 2020, with two new office projects having commenced during the second quarter. Seattle has nine major office projects under construction on the heels of delivering nearly 1.9 million square feet of new office inventory during the second quarter. Regionally, there are 14 major office projects currently under construction totaling 4.7 million square feet with 69% of this space being pre-committed. There are an additional eight or more planned spec projects expected to become available by early 2020, but aside from Binary Towers (Amazon), no pre-leasing has been announced, says the Kidder report.