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Microfulfillment centers — located inside existing stores or structures that hold a market’s worth of goods — are increasingly being hailed as the solution for speedy shipping in space-starved city centers. Calgary, Alberta-based Attabotics‘ product condenses aisles of warehouse shelves into single vertical storage structures that roving shuttles traverse horizontally. As for Fabric (forme...
Christopher Yip is joining RET Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused on real estate technology companies for the multifamily and single-family rental industries, as partner and managing director.
In an email to employees last week, Katerra CEO Michael Marks had a few uplifting thoughts on the year gone by. His startup, which seeks to transform the $12 trillion global construction industry through technology and automation, has grown to more than 8,000 employees, is nearing profitability and will soon open a new state-of-the-art factory in California. Clients are returning, he wrote, and t...
Sidewalk Labs, an urban planning subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., is rolling out software it says is capable of generating billions of planning scenarios to create new urban areas. Using machine learning and other tools, the software can also help planners evaluate this multiplicity of design scenarios in terms of how they impact the quality of life for residents, Sidewalk La...
Marcelo Claure flopped into a chair late this week at WeWork’s headquarters in New York, looking exhausted and exhilarated, his 6-foot-6 frame splayed across the glass meeting room. Mr. Claure, the newly installed executive chairman of the embattled company and a top lieutenant of SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son (who plowed over $10 billion into WeWork), has been prepa...
As 2019 enters its final weeks, it seems timely to start looking at what sectors are poised to close out the year with a bang. This seems to be the year that every startup decided to become a bank. And every venture capitalist decided to write a check to one or more of those startups. Much of the funding went to “neobanks,” a fancy term to describe upstart digital banks working on everythin...
In the two years since electric scooters first arrived on the streets of Southern California, the e-scooter industry has exploded beyond virtually everyone’s expectations. Startups like Bird and Lime have built an international presence and now have private valuations that exceed $2 billion. Ride-sharing heavyweights Lyft and Uber (the latter through its own micro-mobility vertical, Jump) have ...
Predictive analytics has become as necessary as a cup of coffee in the morning for CRE professionals, Neelika Choudhury, senior vice president of product strategy at Ten-X Commercial, a commercial real estate technology firm, tells GlobeSt.com. “Users are demanding predictive analytics with our offerings,” she said.
The network teamed up with Raleigh-based drone tech startup PrecisionHawk to use sensors to cut through the fog and canopy on the jungle floor. And according to to PrecisionHawk’s CEO, Michael Chasen, while the team came up treasureless, it explored areas unable to go by foot. PrecisionHawk just raised $32 million to help the commercial drone industry — get off the ground. Investors in the ro...
In early October, WeWork’s board of directors trickled into a brick building in lower Manhattan where the startup had an office. After they took their seats around the conference room table, Mark Schwartz started to vent. “I’ve stayed silent too long,” the 65-year-old former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner told the six other men on the board, includ...