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Chris Dixon, arguably the most prominent venture capitalist focusing on blockchain, is friggin’ tall. Before sitting down with him inside the spa-like Silicon Valley offices of Andreessen Horowitz in August, I had talked to him a handful of times over the years, but always on the phone, so I didn’t exactly know about his height.
SAN FRANCISCO–JLL Spark Global Venture Fund co-CEO Mihir Shah remembers the moment when he decided he wanted to invest some of the fund’s $100 million capital pool in Dealpath, a company that produces deal management software for real estate transactions. The company was being evaluated to see if it met JLL Spark’s four main criteria for inv...
Over recent years there’s been increasing interest in city or urban logistics among developers and investors. It’s a subject which has also risen up city, national and European policy agendas. This mutual interest has been spurred by the growth of e-commerce and online retail and the burgeoning demand for last-mile fulfil...
A FIRST LOOK.
Computer vision — a machine’s ability to “see” objects or images and understand something about them — can already help you unlock your fancy new iPhone just by looking at it. The thing is, it has to have seen that information before to know what it’s looking at.
Opendoor, a four year-old, San Francisco-based company, has from the outset intended to make it possible to buy and sell residential real estate with a few key strokes. It seemingly gets closer to that audacious vision by the day. The company closed on $325 million in new funding in June in a round that brought its total equity funding to $645 million to da...
Most conversations with Google Home or Alexa tend to focus on quirky features like weather or telling jokes. But voice recognition technology is set to become the most powerful computing step change we have experienced since the launch of the iPhone.
The rollercoaster-get-rich ICOs of 2017 are over — crypto companies are waking up to the idea that VC investors aren’t so bad after all.
Co-working company Spaces is opening its largest New York City location yet at the Chrysler Building.
Spaces, a division of Regus parent company IWG, signed a lease for slightly more than 110,000 square feet at the iconic Midtown office tower, company representatives confirmed to The Real Deal.