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TechCrunch: Populus to Combat Curbside Parking Chaos with Millions in New Funding

Announcing our investment in Populus, a digital infrastructure platform for city curbs and streets

Comcast is helping shape the cities of the future. From launching a connected lighting pilot in Philadelphia that helps the city collect real-time air quality data, to delivering the next phase of connected living with Xfinity Communities, we’re on the journey toward truly connected and smart cities.

As part of that journey, I’m excited to announce Comcast Ventures’ investment in Populus – a mobility platform that helps cities manage their curbs and reduce transportation climate impacts – as part of the company’s recently announced $11M Series A.

Our Investment into Branch Energy: A Game-Changing Green Energy Retail Brand

By Adam Spivack, Principal, Comcast Ventures Venture capital investing is a people business. While we thoroughly examine business models, markets, and growth potential, founding teams make or break the decision to invest. In every investment we ask ourselves: why does this founding team have a distinct advantage to win in their specific market? From my Our Investment into Branch Energy: A Game-Changing Green Energy Retail Brand

Pattern is Powering the Future of Embedded Insurance

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Pattern’s impressive technology allows them to assess risk in real time, and dynamically change prices based upon evolving inputs (e.g., changing weather patterns may increase likelihood of a delay, thus increasing the price of that policy), assuring that the consumer is getting a fair price correlated with the genuine risk.

Comcast Ventures Holiday Gift Guide

A variety of holiday gifts from Comcast Ventures companies.

All of us at Comcast Ventures would like to wish you and your loved ones a Happy Holiday season. After a year like 2020, we all deserve a little something special. Shop from our CV Gift Guide featuring special discounts from our portfolio companies and their founders. Unless otherwise noted, the deals are good through Comcast Ventures Holiday Gift Guide

CTI Towers: The Pain and Progress Through a Relentlessness Pursuit

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For all of the talk about disruptors inventing the latest in Silicon Valley innovation, this is a story about what happens when entrepreneurs find success by embracing traditional technology with a relentless pursuit. CTI Towers advanced the wireless communications industry by seeing the value that existing infrastructure could bring to new technologies. To tell it, CTI Towers: The Pain and Progress Through a Relentlessness Pursuit