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Generate Capital, a sustainable infrastructure finance and development firm, this morning announced a $2 billion fundraise from major institutional investors, Ben writes.

Joanna Smith, the founder of edtech startup AllHere, recently raised an $8 million Series A after bootstrapping her company first. A former...

Face-recognition tech is coming to a store near you, if it's not there already, and that's sparking a new wave of opposition.

The stop light was a design inevitability. As cars grew in popularity around the turn of the 20th century, several inventors developed a glowing box filled with round, incandescent lights to tell people when to stop and go. Which is why, since the traffic sign...

Serena Williams is investing an undisclosed amount in Esusu, a fintech start-up that allows renters to build and improve credit by reporting their rent payments to credit bureaus. The tennis superstar provided the backing through her venture capital firm, ...

Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. The approval process for this currently can take days and is still largely done on paper. Enter Jones. The New York-based commercial real e...

Today, a new company called "Vertis" came out of stealth and heralded the general availability of its Vertis Market Intelligence Platform. Vertis says its new platform provides dynamic insights to executive, HR, and real estate leaders by leveraging billions of data points and proprietary data science. The data accessible through the Vertis Market Intelligence Platform allows business leaders a...

The owner of a network of members’ clubs built on exclusivity is offering up its stock to the masses. Membership Collective Group, parent company of the Soho House chain of private clubs, raised $420 million in an initial public offering of 30 million shares Wednesday.

Adam Neumann and Masayoshi Son were negotiating a possible $20 billion check when Mr. Son pulled up an image of Yoda on his iPad. It was summer 2018 and Mr. Son’s tech conglomerate, SoftBank Group Corp., had already pumped over $4 billion into WeWork, the shared office space startup Mr. N...

As one of the world’s biggest economic ecosystems, the construction industry has a major part to play in achieving global sustainability goals. “Ecosystem” in this article refers to the full life cycle (design, materials manufacturing, construction, usage, and demolition) of all residential and commercial buildings and infrastructure. While the industry is generally not seen...