Artificial intelligence startup Hightouch’s new office lease came together after a whirlwind tour of about 20 Manhattan buildings. The company, a marketing firm whose AI platform automates its customers’ administrative tasks, needed space fast after closing $150 million in series D funding, which will partly go toward doubling its 400-person headcount over the next year. Chief Financial Officer Cherry Miao looked at the 18,800-square-foot space at 275 Seventh Avenue in Chelsea and submitted a letter of intent less than 36 hours later. “We were literally the first people to walk through it when it came on the market, and as […]

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