Luxury vacation homes are proving to be a very promising business for Inspirato, a Denver travel startup that has caught the eye of some of Silicon Valley and New York’s biggest investors.
Smartphones are an integral part of our modern lives, but few things are more annoying than realizing you are about to run out of battery. This predicament is especially distressing when you are on the run between meetings, and barely have a minute to eat your lunch, let alone charge your phone.
Massdrop has raised $6.5 million to empower enthusiast communities. It can, for instance, enable dedicated fans of BMW cars to get a group discount on their purchases.
Mayfield led the round, and existing investors also participated, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, First Round Capital and Cowboy Ventures.
The June 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review has an important trio of articles that examine whether capitalism is on the right track, under the banner, “Are Investors Bad For Business.” I will discuss each of the articles in separate reviews, beginning with the article by Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever, “The Capitalist’s Dilemma.” Some of the ideas in the article are wonderful. To understand what’s going on, it’s helpful to see the evolution of Christensen’s thought over several decades.
An Israeli solar power company, Brenmiller Energy, says it has developed a new, more efficient way to store heat from the sun that could give a boost to the thermal solar power industry by enabling plants to run at full capacity night and day.
By next year company founder Avi Brenmiller said he will have a 1.5 megawatt (MW), 15-acre (6-hectare) site in the Negev desert connected to Israel's national grid, and a number of 10 to 20-MW pilots abroad are expected to follow, which will produce electricity at a price which competes with power from fossil-fuelled plants.
Toronto-based startup Bionym has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, including investment from Ignition Partners, Relay Ventures, MasterCard and Salesforce Ventures. The round includes a lot of strategic investment from participants like Export Development Canada, who see value in the product as a security enhancing feature for business customers.
From here on out, I want all virtual reality demos to use Crescent Bay. I realize that’s completely unfair and unrealistic for developers who are working with older headsets, but the new Oculus Rift prototype comes amazingly close to achieving the kind of VR we’ve read about or seen in countless sci-fi books and movies.
Despite all the changes in American healthcare over the past few years, half of all Americans still get their insurance from their employer.
As more large employers self-insure, they’re under pressure to manage the health care costs racked up by their employees — in short, to keep them from running up so many doctor bills. This creates a nice opportunity for companies that make technology platforms designed to engage employees in health and wellness programs.
Desalination takes a surprising amount of energy, but in California many communities are actually using just as much energy to pump fresh water to where it’s needed.
John Lienhard, a professor of water and food at MIT, offered a potentially better solution at our EmTech conference this morning. Like so much in energy efficiency, it’s a hybrid approach. He suggests building a system that involves both pumping and desalination.
El Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao acogerá a partir de hoy y hasta el viernes, día 26 de septiembre, el XVI. Congreso Internacional sobre Tecnología Stirling aplicada a la eficiencia energética.
El evento está organizado por el centro vasco de excelencia para la investigación y desarrollo de productos orientados a la generación y uso eficiente de energía en el hogar CS Centro Stirling S. Coop. y por Mondragón Componentes, ambas entidades integradas en la Corporación Mondragon.
