LA -
based space startup Relativity has raised $ 35 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Playground Global, and including existing investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark
LA -
based space startup Relativity has raised $ 35 million in Series B funding, in a new round led by Playground Global, and including existing investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark Cuban.
Not exact matches
SBA invests more than $ 1 million into a community of mapping and location -
based technology
startups surrounding the NASA Stennis
Space Center in Mississippi.
Ecommerce companies should be taking feverish notes: A recent demonstration of AR technology by Florida -
based startup Magic Leap showed one way retailers might integrate AR technology into an e-commerce environment: The demonstration showed how a user could superimpose virtual models of lamps and other room décor atop a real - world dresser, with the digital objects shown to scale, to help the user determine how those items might look within the
space.
After Boulder -
based startup Simple Energy moved out of its incubator
space in 2011, the team of six, who wanted a downtown location, selected a massive 5,000 - square - foot
space with a three - year lease.
That goal puts it in competition with a swelling number of other
startups trying to tackle the speedy - delivery
space, including Instacart, which recently raised $ 220 million; the New York -
based WunWun, which delivers small orders without a delivery fee in under an hour; and Postmates, which does the same but with a $ 5 delivery fee.
The state government has launched a new co-working
space designed to give technology -
based businesses,
startups and educational institutions access to its extensive property data
Toronto -
based Satish Kanwar, director of product at Shopify, an Ottawa company that offers software for creating an online store, speaks of the opportunities found by those who choose to work in a
startup before taking the plunge themselves: «One of the best things someone can do is date a company first to see if you like
startups and the entrepreneurial
space before you commit to it,» he says.
Entrepreneurs: Eric Stackpole, a former NASA intern who thought
space exploration was going to be his career, and David Lang, who managed a San Francisco -
based sailing school before joining a crowdfunding
startup that later flopped.
An example of a program carrying out this work is Ryerson Futures — an accelerator program that works with
startups based out of Toronto that moves past the idea of looking to Asia as only a source for investment, but rather for
spaces of collaboration and growth in new markets.
In the delivery technology
space, Bangalore -
based startup Locus, which makes a delivery automation software, obtained seed funding recently.
This strong stance on security is a necessity to attract the FinTech demographic, as «confidentiality and security» are the main challenges to working in a shared workplace, according to Adam Goodall, co-founder and chief of product at freelance bank account provider Coconut, which works at Huckletree, a coworking
space for
startups, small businesses and freelancers
based in Shoreditch, London.
New York
based KettleSpace, a
startup that's transforming underused restaurants and hotels into workspace during the day, is building bridges between the hospitality and workspace sectors, while simultaneously maximising empty commercial
space.
Unlike online fundraising platforms that take a percentage -
based commission from
startups or that charge
startups a large flat fee,
Space Angels does not charge
startups money when it invests in them.
Washington, D.C. -
based startup CoworkAtTheMall.com is putting desks, meeting rooms and event
space in a 12,000 - square - foot location at the Magnificent Mile mall that was most recently occupied by Sports Authority.
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Campus North is recognised as one of the best co-working and event
spaces for tech meet - ups,
startups and established businesses in Europe.
The Anglo - Dutch consumer packaged goods giant's recent acquisition of Seventh Generation, a Vermont -
based provider of eco-friendly household products (for a reported sum of between $ 600 million and $ 700 million, according to Fortune magazine) coupled with its interest in Jessica Alba's consumer products
startup Honest Co., a maker of disposable baby diapers, natural household cleaners, and personal - care and beauty products, is ample proof of Unilever's desire to to aggressively bolster its position in this high - growth
space.
China -
based GP Batteries bought much of the
startup's assets after it filed for Chapter 11 protection last fall, and a new Vectrix team is now «in the process of reorganizing and relaunching the brand back into the
space,» according to Chief Operating Officer Jason Kim.
Other companies in the coal gasification
space include Cambridge, Mass. -
based startup GreatPoint Energy, which has already raised more than $ 37 million in funding and told CNET that the company is in the process of raising even more.
Thomas and Reuters has an entire legal texture of the landscape, so there's Legal Geek who are
based in London, but they also map out the legal
startup space all over the world.
Coinbase, a cryptocurrency broker and one of the best funded
startups in the
space, recently built a chat - and - payment app called Token that's also
based on the Ethereum network.
Swiss -
based crypto trading platform First Global Credit (FGC) announced they are developing a passive investment fund which will seek to invest in promising
startups in the public blockchain
space.
Kairos is not a
startup and has an existing client
base with case studies ranging from the payments
space to airport security.
In his demonstration, Kipman's avatar warped to an office
space where he met with other avatars representing employees from Altspace VR, a Redmond City, California -
based startup focusing on social virtual reality content.
At the recent
Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California, Orion Span — a startup based in Houston — revealed its plans for a luxury space hotel that will orbit 200 miles above the e
Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California, Orion Span — a
startup based in Houston — revealed its plans for a luxury
space hotel that will orbit 200 miles above the e
space hotel that will orbit 200 miles above the earth.
The announcement is notable as it indicates that Stripe is poised to enter the bitcoin
space as a competitor to fellow San Francisco -
based startup Coinbase and Georgia -
based merchant processor BitPay, should it follow through and making the service publicly available.
Perhaps one of the most innovative new funds emerging from this
space is the Brooklyn -
based blockchain
startup ConsenSys, lead by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, which just debuted a hybrid VC - hedge fund called ConsenSys Ventures.
Based in Palo Alto, CA., the firm was building institutional products when most other
startups in the
space were focused on bringing bitcoin to the masses.
Since leaving Google in 2014, Rubin has been an active presence in the artificial intelligence
space and launched
startup incubator Playground Global, which focuses on AI and robotics -
based ventures.
Based out of Seattle, it's not quite connected to the Silicon Valley
space, and still considers itself a small, scrappy
startup with over «volunteers» working to bring the custom ROM to handsets new and old, many of which are no longer supported by their own manufacturers.
So suggests Evan Combs, a San Francisco -
based adviser at Cresa, a corporate real estate advisory firm that helps tech
startups land the right
space and which began to observe the increase in subleased property in the third quarter of last year.