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Sustainability catches the eye of Kompas’ shiny new, green-tinted glasses fund

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The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. Sebastian Peck and Talia Rafaeli are heading up the new sustainability fund for Kompas.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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Constructions such as inflatable plastic lounges (photos here and here ), giant see-saws, and art projects involving flame throwers provided entertainment for the 800 to 1500 partygoers that showed up each weekend night. 55 Washington Street. If you're going to have a real startup community, the pundits say you need a billion dollar exit.

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Real estate developer turned prefab home builder Veev closes on $400M in fresh funding

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Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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Mighty Buildings nabs $40M Series B to 3D print your next house

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One of those companies, Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , just raised $40 million in Series B funding for its quest to create homes that it says are “beautiful, sustainable and affordable” using 3D printing, robotics and automation. In fact, the company already has secured contracts with developers for its single family housing product line.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

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Sustainable travel at the forefront. “I’ve been working in the aircraft development space for decades, but 2021 was different,” Tigner writes. We have three full-time contractors doing business development and sales in the U.S., Infrastructure bill could promote lean construction via data capture.

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Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing $22M

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It makes mapping drones, develops software for fully autonomous flights and the WingtraPilot app, which collects and processes aerial survey data. Wingtra drones are used by surveyors in a wide range of industries, including construction, mining, environmental monitoring, agriculture, urban planning and land management.

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Sono Motors has gone public, aims to get Sion solar electric vehicle to market by 2023

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Jona Christians and Laurin Hahn, Sono Motors’ co-founders, weren’t that into cars, but they recognized how much transportation contributes to the burning of fossil fuels and thought that would be a good place to start. “We came up with a vision to integrate solar on every vehicle and thought, Okay, what do we need for that?”