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  • Vertis Exits Stealth with Industry’s First Data Science Solution to Optimize Critical Workforce and Workplace Strategies and Decisions

    Vertis Inc.

    Vertis Exits Stealth with Industry’s First Data Science Solution to Optimize Critical Workforce and Workplace Strategies and Decisions   The Vertis Market Intelligence Platform leverages proprietary data science to enable enterprise, HR and real estate decision makers to create and implement business critical strategies with clarity and conviction   SANTA CLARA, Calif. — July 15, 2021 — Vertis, Inc., a high-growth data-science SaaS company, emerged from stealth mode today, and unve…

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  • Lightyear nabs $13M Series A as online network procurement takes shape

    TechCrunch

    It seems like everything is being pushed online now, but network procurement stubbornly has remained an in-person or phone-based negotiation. Lightyear, an early-stage New York City startup, decided to change that last year, and the company announced a $13.1 million Series A today. The round was led by Ridge Ventures with participation from Zigg Capital and a slew of individual investors. Today’s investment comes on the heels of a $3.7 million seed round last October, bringing the total raise…

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  • San Francisco-based Anacapa acquires NY rental platform Loftey

    The Real Deal

    A rental platform that offers free service to tenants might not sound like the most lucrative business model, but one West Coast private equity firm thinks it will be. San Francisco-based Anacapa Partners has acquired New York City’s Loftey, which aims to make the apartment hunting process easier on renters’ wallets and generate leads for agents.

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  • Startups and VCs refocus autonomous vehicle efforts

    Axios

    Investors have poured billions into startups promising to get self-driving cars on the road to shuttle passengers and parcels. Now, the startup world has largely shifted to applying autonomous driving to specific industrial use cases — in an effort to build a business much faster.

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  • Robotics And AI Will Reshape The Life Sciences Buildings Of The Future

    Bisnow

    Whether it’s the mRNA vaccine technology that powered the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines, new frontiers of biomanufacturing or new personalized medicine enabled by understanding the human genome, medicine is evolving fast. For those working in, designing and building the labs where these discoveries are made, it’s clear the workspaces are changing as well, challenging life sciences developers to adapt to emerging technologies. A pair of innovations have been steadily making their presence …

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  • The company that aims to make remote work actually work

    Axios

    An all-remote startup is offering companies a one-stop solution to set up their employees to work from home.

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  • Tech Workers Who Swore Off the Bay Area Are Coming Back

    The New York Times

    SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Greg Osuri decided he’d had enough of the Bay Area. Between smoke-choked air from nearby wildfires and the coronavirus lockdown, it felt as if the walls of his apartment in San Francisco’s Twin Peaks neighborhood were closing in on him. “It was just a hellhole living here,” said Mr. Osuri, 38, the founder and chief executive of a cloud-computing company called Akash Network. He decamped for his sister’s roomy townhouse in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, joining an exod…

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  • A global war for young talent amidst our turbulent “climatography”

    Simon & Schuster

    MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us By Parag Khanna On sale date: 5 October 2021  www.paragkhanna.com/move  “A nuanced discussion of the increasing importance of free movement across the planet….. Nativists will hate it, but no matter. Khanna makes an urgent, powerful argument for more open international borders.” – Kirkus (starred review)   A global war for young talent amidst our turbulent “climatography” Parag Khanna wants to remap America—and the world. Biden’s Infrastr…

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  • The Simplest Tool for Improving Cities Is Also Free

    The New York Times

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For decades, a stretch of Memorial Drive here that runs along the Charles River has been closed to automobiles on Sundays for the warmer half of the year. In the absence of cars on a four-lane thoroughfare beside the water, all kinds of other street uses blossom: skateboards, bicycles, hoverboards, strollers, wheelchairs and walkers, people on feet and on wheels now moving slowly enough to witness the late spring goslings, the ever-present sea gulls or the rarer magic and grac…

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  • GREYSTAR TEAMS WITH CASPAR.AI AT THE WELL IN HENDERSON, NV

    Caspar.AI

    July 16, 2021, Henderson, Nevada – The Well, a new luxury apartment complex in Henderson, Nevada, now features Caspar.AI, adding smart features to The Well’s handsome apartments. The Well, located at 1050 Wellness Place, Henderson, NV, is owned by Greystar Real Estate Properties, LLC. Caspar.AI is a Redwood City, CA-based high-tech company that is bringing artificial intelligence to multi-family communities around the world. In making the announcement, Caspar CEO and Founder, Dr. Ashutosh …

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