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

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According to Sungjoon Cho , general partner at D20 Capital , the usage of technology will be critical to counterbalance labor shortages. All the investors, however, did agree that the sector’s biggest developments lie in automation, data collection and data analysis.

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

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This was a big enough problem for one company to support all of the data analysis and forecasting without having to manually convert the data,” Li told TechCrunch. The idea for Daloopa came to Li five years ago, but he said the data extraction technology was not in place to get it off the ground.

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Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun?

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Precise controls backed by data analysis can calibrate food quality, leading to further improvements in yields while reducing raw inputs like water. It’s the secret sauce that ties its automated systems, sensors and data collection together into a central nervous system.

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NebulaGraph reaps from China’s growing appetite for graph databases

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Two years after we covered its $8 million funding round , the company announced this week that it has closed a Series A round led by Jeneration Capital. Other investors in the round include Matrix Partner China, Redpoint China Ventures and Source Code Capital. That’s not the end of data collection.

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