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How Luxury Real Estate Is Using AI and Augmented Reality to Unlock $1 Billion in Sales

Luxury real estate is shedding its relationship-only past by using AI and immersive technology to surface new opportunities.

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Apkudo, a platform for managing connected devices, raises $37.5M

February 15, 2023

Apkudo, a Baltimore-based startup developing a platform to help manage, sell and test connected devices like smartphones and laptops, today announced that it raised $37.5 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Fund and Piper Sandler Merchant Banking with participation from MissionOG, Harbert Growth, Grotech Ventures, Lavrock Ventures and […]

Apkudo, a platform for managing connected devices, raises $37.5M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

a16z, GV back Thatch in its effort to simplify health benefits for startups and their employees

February 15, 2023

When you’re dealing with health issues, worrying about how you’re going to pay for care can be a major additional stressor. This can be compounded when you’re facing major illnesses, such as receiving treatment for cancer or having surgery. Chris Ellis and Adam Stevenson had the unfortunate experiences of losing parents to cancer at a […]

a16z, GV back Thatch in its effort to simplify health benefits for startups and their employees by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Intuitive Machines’ post-SPAC war chest depleted by shareholder redemptions

February 15, 2023

Lunar technology company Intuitive Machines received far less cash from its merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) than it forecasted, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made last night. Although Intuitive Machines said the SPAC trust could furnish the company with as much as $301 million in dry powder, […]

Intuitive Machines’ post-SPAC war chest depleted by shareholder redemptions by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch