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Sustainable Systems
Industrials
As technology breaks out of Silicon Valley’s sandbox, traditionally analog industries are just beginning to realize their benefits. We are investing in companies bringing distributed services, software-defined operations, advanced robotics, and more to the largest sectors of the economy. We envision an imminent, positive transformation of legacy sectors like construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals.
Featured Companies
“Data science, machine learning, robotics, distributed services, automation, and software-defined operations are just beginning to transform many more ‘traditional’ industries like construction, logistics, and manufacturing.”
Andrew Beebe
Articles
These Robots Learn. Meet Their Teacher.
We’re nearly an hour into our conversation when Samir asks me to stand up. “Stick out your finger,” he says.[…]
The Frictionless Future
An article I recently co-wrote with Di-Ann Eisnor sparked some controversy. The post, about cities of the near future, took as a[…]
Industrial IQ: Where High Tech Meets Low Tech
The history of Silicon Valley, and what continues to define the technology sector zeitgeist today, can mostly be reduced to[…]
A Sea Change in Seafood
Valerie Robitaille has been building businesses with family since she was ten, from hawking homemade insect repellent to lemonade-standing on[…]
Building Better Machines That Are Better for Humans
Canvas Co-Founder and CTO Maria Telleria brings her vision, values, and Ph.D. to bear on a construction industry in need[…]
The New Intelligence
The days of traditional, human-driven problem solving—developing a hypothesis, uncovering principles, and testing that hypothesis through deduction, logic, and experimentation—may[…]
The Seeds of a Building Revolution
Welcome to the slow, unreliable, expensive, and dirty world of residential construction: Neighborhood disruption. Delays. Change orders. Cost overruns. Permitting problems.[…]
Pouring New Foundations in Construction Tech
In 1943 Abraham Maslow published his seminal paper titled A Theory of Human Motivation, in which he posited a prioritization protocol[…]
Manufacturing Goes Digital
It’s hard to imagine an industry as harsh and unforgiving to technological deployment as manufacturing. Remote facilities. Spotty internet connectivity.[…]