Rising labor costs and rents worldwide are driving retail establishments toward a mechanical future, potentially leaving 66 million human workers in jeopardy.
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This NYC Startup Just Raised Another $25M to Bring a Studio Workout to Your Home
A popular excuse for not working out is: it’s an inconvenience. Joining a gym is inconvenient and finding the time is difficult. But that’s all destined to change with the creation of MIRROR, the first-ever interactive hardware-enabled home gym that streams live and on-demand fitness classes. Classes are led by NYC’s top fitness instructor and […]
This NYC Startup Just Raised $70M For the Smart Lock of the Future
Latch is the first smart access system for multifamily buildings and its CEO Luke Schoenfelder discusses the inspiration and popularity of smart locks.
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Get Ready For Humanoids
Memphis at 1 am is quite possibly the busiest airport without passengers on the globe. Touring the 880 acre FedEx facility, I marveled at the speed and efficiency of the automation technologies that can process close to a half a million shipments an hour and 250 flights a day. The cargo hub is a shining example […]
Cloud9 Raises $14M to Unleash the Most Overlooked Form of Communication to Traders
The most valuable and significant trades are conducted via voice, and these trader voice communications are rich with insights about the financial ecosystem. That’s why Cloud9 Technologies uses machine learning to transcribe trader voice conversations into metadata with industry leading accuracy. This startup offers a compliant and secure way to extract the power of the […]
Ice-Bot Cometh: Building Self-Reliant Unmanned Systems
Last June, a massive dust storm engulfed Mars and immobilized the most famous robots in the galaxy, Opportunity and Curiosity. This is not the first time that Martian dirt has prevented Opportunity from recharging its solar panels. Its creators originally predicted that the planet’s harsh weather conditions would limit the rover’s mission to ninety sols (the […]
Blueprint Power Raises $3.5M to Make Buildings And Their Owners Powerhouses
Having your building become a virtual power plant sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Blueprint Power is making this a reality. This NYC startup is pushing boundaries using machine learning to manage clean energy resources in buildings. Buildings become autonomous power plants and any surplus energy produced can be sold to existing […]
This NYC Startup Just Raised $1.7M to Prove that the Retail Apocalypse is Not Real
We’ve all heard the stats and have seen articles that mention how brick-and-mortar stores are coming to an end, but is that actually true? According to PERCH, the experiential marketing platform that uses patented, cutting-edge technology to give items a life of their own, the retail apocalypse is just talk. That’s because in the last […]
This NYC Startup Just Raised $10M to Fight The Inevitable Rise of Medical Hackers
WannaCry was one of the most massive and recent cybersecurity attacks on hospitals, and it revealed how vulnerable some of our most valuable institutions are. The need to protect hospitals critical assets, like patient information and valuable data, is extremely important, and hospitals’ IT networks run on unmonitored and unprotected connected medical devices. However, CyberMDX […]
K Health Raises $12M to Make Googling Symptoms A Relic of The Past
You feel a sore throat coming on, you start overheating, and your body aches, but you know the drill… flip open your laptop and start Googling your symptoms, and before you know it you’ve self-diagnosed yourself with an illness. Thankfully K Health is here to change that. This is the first free primary care app […]