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TechCrunch
Five months ago, Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth with a $6 million raise. Today the Bay Area-based firm is back with several times that, announcing a $26 million Series A, led by Tiger Global. The new round also features participation from existing investors, including Bow Capital, Vertex Ventures US and The House Fund.
VentureBeat
Google today announced Supply Chain Twin, a new Google Cloud solution that lets companies build a digital twin — a representation of their physical supply chain — by organizing data to get a more complete view of suppliers, inventories, and events like weather. Arriving alongside Supply Chain Twin is the Supply Chain Pulse module, which can be used with Supply Chain Twin to provide dashboards, analytics, alerts, and collaboration in Google Workspace.
PR Web
Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG (environmental, social, governance) technology platform for real estate, announced today it has closed $50 million in Series C funding. The funds will accelerate the expansion of Measurabl’s platform and support the launch of new services to meet rapidly growing global demand for sustainability and decarbonization tools. The round was led by Energy Impact Partners, a global investment firm leading the transition to a sustainable energy future.
Manilla Bulletin
The increase in digitalization and the rapid adoption of technology in property development will advance the industry, especially as digital solutions and platforms are becoming the norm in business. This forward-looking outlook was discussed during the launch of the PropTech Consortium of the Philippines which gathered experts in property, banking, government, energy, and technology. Techifying real estate and related sectors can also reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, and generate e…
Acrofan
MRI Software, a global leader in real estate software, today announces its acquisition of industry-leading customer relationship management (CRM) solution provider, Box+Dice™. Melbourne-based Box+Dice adds a critical piece to MRI’s comprehensive PropTech portfolio, enabling real estate businesses to unify customer lifecycle visibility across both sales and rental property management….
VentureBeat
The “metaverse” is back in the headlines. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook “will effectively transition from … being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” Facebook plans to create “an embodied internet” — powered by its Oculus headsets and bridging the company’s platforms in virtual space. And Facebook is not alone, as Epic Games, Disney, and other corporations are also investing billions in their virtual worlds….
GlobeSt
The pandemic has left its thumbprint on commercial real estate design. It has accelerated already budding design trends, like flexible use, natural lighting and ventilation systems, but the pandemic has also catalyzed new design concepts that help to combat the risk of viral infection.
Bloomberg
William Quigley, a co-founder of stablecoin Tether and a pioneer in the cryptocurrency space, sees the metaverse as a huge economic force that’s going to change people’s lives significantly in coming years.
GlobeSt
Labor Day was supposed to herald the return to the office. But did anyone say which year? The Delta variant has turned the Covid-19 recovery story on its head. The 7-day average number of new cases on September 1, 2021— more than 503,000 — was four times the amount on the same day the year before, according to Oxford University’s Our World in Data site.
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