TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 The platform was originally launched in 2019 by entrepreneurs Zach Bell and Rameet Chawla as a way for them to share their private homes with their friends. million in seed funding led by Freestyle Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Better.com is launching Equity Unlocker , a program that allows employees to use their vested equity as collateral for a down payment when trying to buy homes. Even former Amazon employees with vested equity can use the service, according to Better.com, and there are many, following Amazon’s companywide layoffs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Online interior design startup Havenly is acquiring direct-to-consumer home furnishing brand The Inside , the company announced on Thursday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under the terms of the deal, Havenly has acquired the key assets of The Inside, including its intellectual property and inventory.

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MAY 31, 2023

For the most part, executives now divide their employees into two camps: Task workers who are more than happy to remain at home, and collaborators who want to return to the office setting – at least partially – to facilitate creative and collaborative processes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Atmos , a startup which has built an online marketplace that teams up homebuyers with builders and land developers to design and build custom homes, has emerged from stealth today with $12.5 On Demo Day, we got a term sheet from Khosla,” said Nicholas Donahue, CEO and co-founder of Atmos. Within two weeks, we’d accepted it.”.

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MARCH 7, 2023

The new funding follows a year where Assured Allies secured partnerships with several leading long-term care insurance carriers and saw 300% growth in the number of members using Assured Allies’ platform to, as co-founder and CEO Roee Nahir describes, “successfully age.”

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Today’s seniors aren’t what they used to be. But age isn’t just a state of mind or a question of attitude – time takes its toll on even the wildest and most free spirited among us. We don’t see as sharply as we used to and don’t hear half of what is said over the dinner table. Writer Stephen King recently turned 76.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With the global pandemic upending the traditional way we work, employees across every market sector in New Zealand are now spending their workdays alternating between offices, their homes and other locations. But the productive benefits of working from home also bring a more complex IT environment to manage.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

By applying design thinking methodology to the core metaverse capabilities (that is, thoroughly assessing their desirability, feasibility, and viability in relation to your business), you will quickly be able to identify potential use cases for both the short and long term. Some are well on their way. I think you can see the cycle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Homebase , a Ho Chi Minh City-based proptech startup that helps people buy homes, announced today it has raised $30 million in equity and debt (the ratio was undisclosed). YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam. Divvy Homes secures $110M Series C to help renters become homeowners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

provider of healthcare inside people’s homes augmented by a platform that allows carers to monitor a patient’s health and potentially flag problems, has raised $320 million (£260 million) in an equity and debt financing round, split roughly 50/50. Most healthcare tech is now graduating to healthcare in the home. Cera , a U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

million contract is a continuation of a previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) dual-use contract with the U.S. This award will support the development of what ICON is calling “Project Olympus,” an ambitious plan to build structures on the moon and Mars using in-situ resources. “To Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

From the company’s perspective, meanwhile, they may have to administer payments for workers hailing from multiple different locations, many of whom are in temporary or short-term placements. In terms of how all of this is set up, an employee must of course be working for a company that has decided to use Kadmos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

TBD Health is taking a fresh new approach with at-home testing made available for vagina-havers. The company has been offering a five-panel “check yourself out” kit for at-home testing , and recently opened an in-person clinic in Las Vegas. “We really wanted to make a screening feel as though it was on your terms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

With more people working from home than ever, the desire to take advantage of that newfound flexibility to travel has been greater than ever. Opendoor alums Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina teamed up in 2021 to start a company, Kindred , with the goal of helping make traveling more accessible through a unique home-swapping model.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry. Oh, how the tables have turned.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

One of the first use cases of artificial intelligence in many companies, including both Michelin and Albemarle, was predictive maintenance, which at its most basic level is an algorithm trained on data collected by sensors. Albemarle has been using AI as a virtual assistant since the recent pandemic lockdowns. “We

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JANUARY 7, 2022

After all, the usefulness of things like mobility aids, health monitoring platforms and long-term financial planning aren’t limited to the elderly. Labrador set to deliver a robotic helping hand to homes in 2023. BOCCO emo is one of the latest robot created for nursing homes. BOCCO emo robot.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fintech startups like NerdWallet, Lower.com, Divvy and Landis have appeared in recent years trying to, for instance, make it easier to save for home loans. The bulk of the new funding will be used to accelerate the growth of the QuoHome coaching app. billion in homes, growing at over 100% CMGR. It has now raised $7.2 ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Historically, homeowners could only tap into the equity of their homes by taking out a home equity loan or refinancing. But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes.

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CIO

APRIL 5, 2023

Migratory employees in technology roles appreciated the newfound ability to work from home in sweatpants and avoid the daily commute. Dealing with digital work friction Employers used to be able to tell teams to stay late in the office to fulfill a rush of customer orders, or be on-call to respond to issues on weekends.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

When Richard Joffe moved his family to Australia in 2019, he said applying for home insurance “was like traveling back in time 30 years.”. “I The capital will be used on hiring, with plans to fill 80 positions over the next 12 months, and research and development. They never contacted me aside from my renewal,” he told TechCrunch.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

No longer a nebulous, aspirational term equated with the concept “never trust, already verify,” zero trust has evolved into a solid technology framework that enables proactive defense and digital transformation as organizations embrace the cloud and hybrid work models. He adds that, now, all 17,000 employees are using ZDX.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

If you know the terms of the deal, wouldn’t it be cool if you hit me up ? ” The firm said the energy savings were “roughly equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 2,700 American homes.” “We have to figure out ways to use water more effectively.” “And that work is not done.”

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CIO

MAY 25, 2023

Analytics and data science vendor Alteryx is rolling ChatGPT and home-grown AI expertise into some of its core modules, with the aim of generating targeted, detailed reports at high speed. Customers] want to use generative AI technology.” Users will still need their own ChatGPT accounts.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Zhou noted that Yami provides more than 260,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs) across food, beauty, health, and home categories with over 4,000 brands. . The Los Angeles-headquartered startup will use the latest funding to further its U.S. Umamicart bags $6M to deliver traditional Asian ingredients right to your home.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Zeus Living started its life by redecorating landlords’ homes and renting the furnished properties primarily to relocated workers for 30-day stays (or longer) for a new type of corporate housing. 9 proptech investors talk co-living, home offices and other pandemic trends. Today, that has grown to nearly 5,000 homes in 96 U.S.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

They’re also managing people who used to be peers, and they need to organize and motivate their team members to take on major new projects. It’s not really about simply accomplishing short-term goals, but developing new capabilities to strengthen and propel one’s career.” And that’s generally not an easy task.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2021

A lot of startups were built to help people make all-cash offers on homes with the purpose of gaining an edge against other buyers, especially in ultra-competitive markets. . Accept.inc describes itself as an iLender, or a “technology-enabled lender” that gives people a way to submit all-cash offers on a home upon qualifying for a mortgage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

However, many homes and businesses — particularly those in rural locations — aren’t suitably served with high-speed internet, putting them at a disadvantage compared to those living in cities and around other major thoroughfares. isn’t the only place where government subsidies are being used to connect remote areas.

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JUNE 28, 2022

In Birdie’s home market of the U.K., Birdie’s wider goal for the business is to use the data its platform is ingesting and structuring to power more personalized — and even preventative — healthcare for the social care sector, which remains drastically under-resourced versus the scale of demand for care services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Getsafe , the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. and Germany and delivered via an easy to use app, the idea is that you build and only pay for the exact cover you need. . Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

If you’ve ever sold a house, you know what a pain it is to go through the process of listing, showing and negotiating the sale of your home. The result is fewer homes on the market, which exacerbates existing housing shortages in already tight markets such as the San Francisco Bay Area. million since its 2018 inception.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Now, as remote work continues and the pandemic persists, scores of entrepreneurs are working from home around the world. Now that they can work from literally anywhere, many entrepreneurs are forming homes with other founders. Michael Houck , a former product manager at Airbnb and Uber, rented a home in Tulum, Mexico in May 2020.

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Line-of-business professionals can now use the cloud to buy their own IT solutions on demand. The growing use of low-code software development platforms meanwhile puts tech-creation capabilities into the hands of workers outside IT. Lansley refers to this form of long-term horizon scanning as “keeping your finger on the pulse.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

Beyond the fact that it is an investor’s job to invest, there’s something to be said about using personal capital to help businesses. Altman, the former CEO of Y Combinator, confirmed to TechCrunch that he’s using a “decent amount” of personal capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

California is dealing with some of the worst wildfires in its history (a superlative that I use essentially every year now) with the Caldor fire and others blazing in the state’s north. With the climate increasingly warming, millions of home just in the United States alone are sitting in zones at high risk for wildfires.

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