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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

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” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. Infogrid helps our clients to provide exactly this, which improves their rental yields and asset values.”

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Butlr lands new cash to put people-detecting sensors in the office

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Deng asserts that many companies are flying blind when it comes to real estate. “The pandemic brought home the need to understand occupancy and utilization data for real estate executives,” Deng told TechCrunch in an email interview. One of Butlr’s temperature sensors. Image Credits: Butlr.

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5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities

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Often, industries that have great potential to be disrupted are also the most resistant to adopting bleeding-edge technology. While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. Its recently enacted $1.2

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Trigo raises $100M to expand its Amazon-style cashier-free store technology

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Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. It will also be doubling down on expanding its technology.

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Investors discuss how labor shortage is shaking up the construction tech stack

TechCrunch

To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space. Due to the pandemic, many contech workers were unable to freely visit their job sites and realized they had less visibility than they’d like into what was happening onsite. “Due

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Construction tech startup RenoRun lands $142M in Tiger Global-led Series B

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So it’s not a huge surprise that Canadian construction tech startup RenoRun , which has built an e-commerce platform for construction and building materials, is today announcing a $142 million Series B funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Sozo Ventures.

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Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps

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And to some outfits, the highest-quality testing simply isn’t available, either due to logistics reasons or the relentless push to reach release. While the tech industry implements hiring freezes and workforce reductions, it helps that Mobot is a “counter-cyclical” business, Goh asserts. ”

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