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When Caitlin Rood entered the affordable housing industry in 2013 as an experienced sustainability professional, she had a plan. She would start with low-hanging fruit, accumulate savings, reinvest in deeper opportunities and repeat across the portfolio of Mercy Housing, which she ended up serving as national director of sustainability.
It was a strategy that worked for her in other industrie...
The blank-check boom has turned into a rout.
More than six months after the SPAC craze crested, a broad selloff has wiped about $75 billion off the value of companies that came public through special-purpose acquisition companies, ...
Pancake brought in a $350,000 seed round to develop its home design platform that leverages furniture you already have in your home with a designer’s fresh eye on your space.
Maria Jose Castro and Roberto Meza, both from Costa Rica, started the company in 2020, based on their own experience of transitioning to work-from-home...
To say cybersecurity is booming would be an understatement. We’re talking about security companies’ skyrocketing valuations ($524.1 million on average) and the massive amount of funding ($12.2 billion just this year so far) investors are pouring into the industry, of course. Because in terms of s...
Join CREtech Climate for an exclusive webinar celebrating the upcoming book launch of Dr. Parag Khanna’s MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us. Greg Lindsay, Director of Applied Research at NewCities and CREtech Climate Leadership Board Member, will join Khanna to look at the forces, such as the climate crisis and disruptive technologies, that are pr...
Global firm Zventus recently revealed that it would launch a blockchain lab for the financial services industry with a specific focus on “modernizing the mortgage sector.” The firm said the initiative will develop new products, services, and solutions to enhance the loan process to make loan processes more secure and economical.
Earlier this week, BuiltUp Ventures revealed a significant investment in OKIBO, an Israeli contech startup that’s creating its robotic automation solutions to address challenges like skilled labor shortages. OKIBO’s robots are “designed for the harsh conditions of a construction site,” the companies said in a joint statement announcing the deal, with 3D scanning, autonomous path planning, ...
Don Weinreich, Partner at Ennead Architects, shares his approach to technology as a double edged sword, and questions how much ‘tech debt’ a company can truly acquire while still remaining competitive in the industry.
