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Join raises $4M seed round to build a better construction planning platform

Startup Join wants to modernize the back office for an industry that’s everywhere, but maybe not top of mind, especially when it comes to project management software: Commercial construction. The company has raised a $4 million seed round, co-led by Signalfire and Building Ventures and including participation by existing investor Bolt.

The startup’s core product is a collaborative decision-making platform designed to facilitate more effective working relationships between everyone involved in the preconstruction phase of a building project, including owners, contractors, designers, tradespeople and suppliers. The platform includes visualization tool, including timeline and budget planners, along with trend predictions so that you can see how changes to the plan will affect the project overall.

It also includes permission-based account access control, so that you can ensure everyone working on the project has the visibility they need to the pieces they touch. Join’s product also provides insights based on past project performance so that future ones can benefit from the successes of the past.

Join’s foundation is based on the observation that commercial construction industry is following a path blazed by the software industry before it, from a so-called ‘waterfall’ product development mode, whereby you more or less follow rigid steps in sequence, to a more agile mode in which each phase is more fluid and the project’s scope can change in the execution. Join believes construction is following a similar path, hence the need now for a tool like this.

The founding team behind Join includes co-founder and CEO Andrew Zukoski, Drew Wolpert, Ye Wang and Jim Forester. Both Zukoski and Wolpert have experience at Flux.io, a startup borne of Google X, that focused on supporting architecture, engineering and construction industry improvement via cloud-based solutions, and Wang has a background in manufacturing design technology from past work at both Onshape and Autodesk .

Join will make use of this round, which brings its total funding to $5.2 million including a pre-seed round led by Bolt, to bring on additional product development talent to help it set up for public launch of the platform to customers.

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Alphabet's moonshot factory just launched a geothermal energy start-up called Dandelion

For now, Dandelion is selling its systems through installers to home owners in New York state. Why New York? There’s a lot of variation in weather, for starters. Geothermal systems can be used for efficient heating or cooling, which makes them appealing versus separate heating and air conditioning systems.

Additionally, New York is a densely populated state where an estimated 2 million homes still rely on oil or propane for temperature controls. Those are each more costly and polluting when compared to geothermal.

Installation of a Dandelion system would cost a homeowner between $20,000 to $25,000 upfront, or between $160 to $180 a month over 20 years, the company said.

“For an average fuel oil homeowner in New York, switching to geothermal would save 110 tons of CO2 and $35,000 over 20 years,” Hannun said. “For the average propane home, the homeowner would save over 130 tons of CO2 and $63,000 over 20 years,” she said.

The start-up intends to use its funding to ramp up its production and sales of its systems in New York, and then to expand into new states, especially in the Northeast and Midwest.

The company is the second to launch from X at Alphabet as an independent company. Earlier, X-born project Flux.io, which makes data sharing software for the buildings industry became a standalone, venture-backed startup. Other X affiliated projects have become part of Alphabet’s own business, including G-cam which now comprises the camera technology within Pixel phones, and Verily, now part of Alphabet’s life sciences initiatives.

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New Post has been published on Mortgage News

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Alphabet's moonshot factory just launched a geothermal energy start-up called Dandelion

For now, Dandelion is selling its systems through installers to home owners in New York state. Why New York? There’s a lot of variation in weather, for starters. Geothermal systems can be used for efficient heating or cooling, which makes them appealing versus separate heating and air conditioning systems.

Additionally, New York is a densely populated state where an estimated 2 million homes still rely on oil or propane for temperature controls. Those are each more costly and polluting when compared to geothermal.

Installation of a Dandelion system would cost a homeowner between $20,000 to $25,000 upfront, or between $160 to $180 a month over 20 years, the company said.

“For an average fuel oil homeowner in New York, switching to geothermal would save 110 tons of CO2 and $35,000 over 20 years,” Hannun said. “For the average propane home, the homeowner would save over 130 tons of CO2 and $63,000 over 20 years,” she said.

The start-up intends to use its funding to ramp up its production and sales of its systems in New York, and then to expand into new states, especially in the Northeast and Midwest.

The company is the second to launch from X at Alphabet as an independent company. Earlier, X-born project Flux.io, which makes data sharing software for the buildings industry became a standalone, venture-backed startup. Other X affiliated projects have become part of Alphabet’s own business, including G-cam which now comprises the camera technology within Pixel phones, and Verily, now part of Alphabet’s life sciences initiatives.

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Flux.io is hiring a Sr. Visual Designer in San Francisco

Flux.io is hiring a Sr. Visual Designer in San Francisco

APPLY HERE: Flux.io is hiring a Sr. Visual Designer in San Francisco

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Flux.io from the GoogleX team is amazing! #bim #google4work #construction works great with @AutodeskRevit and… http://bitly.com/2mSX5gs

Flux.io from the GoogleX team is amazing! #bim #google4work #construction works great with @AutodeskRevit and @googledrive http://pic.twitter.com/Zy5KroIqIH

— Jason Sibley (@jasoncreation) March 7, 2017

via Twitter https://twitter.com/jasoncreation March 07, 2017 at 03:49PM