| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Nov 12, 2024 | What Would You Tell a Therapist If You Were Anonymous? A Lot, This Founder Realized, and It Helped Her Raise $52 Million. Zeera's audio app has the same clinical outcomes as one-on-one therapy, but is done anonymously, which makes more people want to seek out help. | Ariela Safira was studying at Stanford University when a friend attempted to take her own life. It was 2013, and visiting her friend at a facility left Safira feeling scared. "It was the first time I had ever seen mental health care,&q... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Expert voices: Woven Capital's Nicole LeBlanc on hydrogen | Hydrogen needs to be part of the energy mix, says Nicole LeBlanc, a partner with Toyota's growth fund Woven Capital, writes Katie.
Why it matters: Green hydrogen is attracting major government and investor support, and Toyota is investing s... |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Tech firms’ housing pledges coming up short | Two years after Apple, Google, and Meta vowed to spend $4.5 billion to create more than 40,000 new homes in their home state of California, they’ve accomplished a fraction of that goal.
Meta, which aims for 20,000 new homes by 2029, has so ... |
| May 26, 2021 | A lifelong resident and city director reveals how San Antonio can upgrade its infrastructure to become more sustainable and equal | . Frank Ramirez
Frank Ramirez is a third-generation San Antonian and a member of City Council in District 7.
As director of land use, constituent services, and infrastructure, his goal is to improve the city.
He wants to keep using an equit... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Sidewalk Labs Spinout Replica Raises $41 Million Series B | Replica's dashboard. Replica |
| Dec 24, 2020 | The built environment will be one of tech’s next big platforms | From the beginning, the plan for Sidewalk Labs (a subsidiary of Alphabet and — by extension — a relative of Google) to develop a $1.3 billion tech-enabled real estate project on the Toronto waterfront was controversial.
Privacy advocates ha... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Recycling robotics company AMP Robotics could raise up to $70M | AMP Robotics, the recycling robotics technology developer backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, is close to closing on as much as $70 million in new financing, according to multiple sources with... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Sequoia-backed recycling robot maker AMP Robotics gets its largest purchase order | AMP Robotics, the manufacturer of robotic recycling systems, has received its largest purchase order from the publicly traded North American waste handling company Waste Connections.
The order, for 24 machine learning-enabled robotic recycl... |
| May 7, 2020 | Sidewalk Labs shuts down Toronto project | Sidewalk Labs is closing its project in Toronto, the company said in a brief statement on Thursday.
“For the last two-and-a-half years, we have been passionate about making Quayside happen — indeed, we have invested time, people, and resour... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Together with portfolio company AMP Robotics, Sidewalk Labs launches recycling pilot in Toronto | Nearly a year after China stopped accepting the world’s garbage, cities around the globe are wrestling with what to do with all of their waste.
China’s new policy, which once accepted 70% of municipal solid waste generated around the world,... |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Sidewalk Labs (Alphabet’s grand experiment in smart cities) will move forward with Toronto project | In the two years since Sidewalk Labs pitched its vision for a grand smart city development — encompassing an entire neighborhood on the Toronto waterfront — the project has been beset by controversy and criticism.
On one hand, the 12-acre p... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Sidewalk Labs spins out urban data-gathering tool Replica into a company | Replica, the data-gathering tool created within Sidewalk Labs that maps the movement of people in cities, is now a company.
The newly formed company, which is headed by Nick Bowden, also announced Thursday it has raised $11 million in a Ser... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Sidewalk Labs spins out Replica to help city planners create ‘virtual populations’ with big data | Google sibling Sidewalk Labs has confirmed the latest project spinout from its incubator.
Replica, originally known as Model Lab, is touted as a “next-generation urban planning tool” and began life as a Sidewalk Labs project in April, 2018.... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Sidewalk Labs spins out Replica to help city planners create ‘virtual populations’ with big data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google sibling Sidewalk Labs has confirmed the latest project spinout from its incubator.
Replica, originally known as Model Lab, is to... |
| Aug 11, 2019 | The venture studio is the model we need right now | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The world needs big, audacious solutions to the t... |
| Aug 11, 2019 | The venture studio is the model we need right now | The world needs big, audacious solutions to the thorniest problems impacting humanity. Problems like climate change, space exploration, oceanic exploration, food shortages and mass violence require government, nonprofits and private enterpr... |
| Jul 21, 2019 | Cities must plan ahead for innovation without leaving people behind | Yung Wu Contributor
Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a Toronto-based innovation hub.
More posts by this contributor
Cities must plan ahead for innovation without leaving people behind
In big tech’s future expansion plans, publ... |
| Jun 24, 2019 | Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs unveils blueprint for the smart city of the future | Following 18 months of work and consultation with more than 21,000 Toronto residents, Sidewalk Labs today made public its Master Innovation & Development Plan (MIDP), a proposal to create the neighborhood of the future—with higher level... |
| Apr 19, 2019 | Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is developing visual cues to indicate when their tech is monitoring you | Alphabet’s subsidiary focused on urban tech development, Sidewalk Labs, is now trying to reinvent signage for smart cities. These signs aren’t to direct the flow of traffic, or to point the way to urban landmarks — they’re designed to let c... |
| Apr 11, 2019 | Cityblock raises $65M to help bring care back to the community level | The company will use the funding to expand its team, its footprint and its technology
While the cracking of the human genome will no doubt have a tremendous effect on how we treat healthcare needs, giving people care that is geared toward t... |
| Oct 18, 2018 | 3 technologists’ hopes for a more open Pittsburgh | Open Data PGH is ending, but open data work in Pittsburgh is going strong.
As we at Technical.ly wrap up our six-month project looking at civic tech in Pittsburgh, we wanted to look ahead to challenges and opportunities and asked some stake... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | Atlassian backs massive new Redfern-Waterloo tech precinct | Sydney’s long-running saga of where a state government-backed technology hub and innovation precinct will be developed has taken yet another turn, this time into social housing heartland.
The gritty ‘Central to Everleigh’ redevelopment corr... |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Interview with Dashride: The Future of Ground Transportation | Dashride, by creating software for ground transport companies, has empowered their customers to compete with companies like Uber and Lyft. I interviewed Dashride’s CEO and Co-founder, Nadav Ullman, about their work with the tech for driverl... |
| Jan 4, 2018 | Sidewalk Labs spinout Cityblock gets $20.8M, adds CMS vets to board | Cityblock Health, the urban-focused public health startup that spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs in October, has raised $20.8 million in a round led by Maverick Ventures. Thrive Capital and Sidewalk Labs also contributed to the round, as... |
| Oct 12, 2017 | ‘PropTech’ is hot and this weekend’s REBNY hackathon is a chance to get involved | As anyone who has attempted to rent an apartment in New York can attest, the real estate industry is ripe for innovation. To all technologists and entrepreneurs: this weekend is your chance to get involved.
The Real Estate Board of New York... |
| Nov 14, 2016 | Investing in the future of urbanization | For roughly a year, Niko Bonatsos, a managing director at the venture firm General Catalyst Partners, didn’t make a single investment. He was meeting with startups daily, as it’s his job to do. But Bonatsos, who steered General Catalyst to ... |
| Sep 18, 2016 | The government technology pitch | Luke Fretwell Contributor
Luke Fretwell is co-founder and CEO of ProudCity.
Crisis has a history of dictating government technology disruption. We’ve seen this with the anticipation of Soviet Union aerospace and military dominance that spar... |
| Sep 3, 2016 | Video Of The Week: The City As A Digital Platform | Craig Nevill-Manning was Google’s first engineer in NYC, fifteen years ago. Earlier this year he left Google and joined Google-funded Sidewalk Labs as CTO. Sidewalk Labs is an ambitious project, led by former NYC Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff.... |
| Mar 19, 2016 | Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Announces Flow Transport Coordination Platform To Leverage Analytics For Decongested Roads | Horia Ungureanu, Tech Times 19 March 2016, 10:03 am
Sidewalk Labs revealed its new platform that aims to offer city traffic managers improved control over chaotic and overcrowded streets.
With Flow, cities will be able to have improved hand... |
| Mar 17, 2016 | US DOT and Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs aim to create new public transit and Wi-Fi networks | The U.S. Department of Transportation and Sidewalk Labs have just announced a program called Flow that aims to create a monitoring and management system for public transportation.
Sidewalk Labs, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet, has develo... |
| Mar 17, 2016 | To help city planners kill traffic jams, US agency turns to Sidewalk Labs | reader comments 27 with 23 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
On Thursday, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it would partner with Sidewalk Labs, a city-focused r... |
| Feb 19, 2016 | LinkNYC's New Free Network Is Blazing Fast. But At What Cost to Privacy? | New York City launched a massive new public communications network on Thursday that backers say will serve as a model for next-generation urban tech infrastructure. But some consumer advocates warn the project could pose a threat to privacy... |
| Feb 18, 2016 | NYC Continues Its Great Phonebooth Transformation As First Tablets Hit Its Gigabit Wi-Fi Spots | The plan to turn unused NYC phonebooths into free digital hubs for local neighborhoods continues as Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced the second phase of the city’s LinkNYC program — with the unveiling of new, slightly generic tablets at the ci... |
| Competition for the kerb is rising, and cities are going to have to manage it | In case you missed it, 2018 was designated the Year of the Kerb by Sabrina Sussman, Zipcar’s public partnerships manager. This is because competition for limited kerb space has been increasing over the past few years, particularly in cities... |
